https://store.steampowered.com/app/2923300/Banana/#app_reviews_hash
Thankfully there are users already calling it out and it's clearly some kind of bot based scam going on involving steam skins. I just thought I'd post this one up because this is a particularly blatant and hilarious example of how developers are openly exploiting the steam review system using bot reviews generally.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/ZERBI-XCVII/recommended/2923300/
I mean I've come to expect this from Valve because all they want to do is collect on the commission which is why they overlook this so much. However what I find interesting is the bot behaviour on the reviews in particular as the positive reviews are suspiciously similar to all the crap infesting the 'top seller' and 'most played' games.
Given the "scam" depends on hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily buying 3 cent junk skins for no apparent reason, I don't really see it working out as a money spinner.
Money laundering?
Never underestimate how retarded the steam market is, I've learned far more than I wanted to finding out exactly how devs on there make their money which is why I'm so convinced there's way more shady shit going on than even that. Setting aside the fact that I would argue you're taking advantage of mentally ill people even doing that kind of thing. There are quite a lot of people out there who treat skins like they're dealing in pokemon cards and if we're going to talk about gaming addiction that's the real problem in the games industry and the devs fucking know what they're doing.
Cute way to make money, I doubt they will make to much
BG3 was a much worse way of making money.
I know we shit on woke here all the time but at least you could call Baldur's Gate 3 a fucking game and that's what pisses me off about crap like this most. I love how there was a review even calling out redditors bumping the game up which is hilarious.
What is worse, an obvious non-game designed to make some easy money for someone or a game designed, not to make money but to normalize degeneracy?
As another aside, is there really no term for fractions of a Euro, like "cents"? Do you really say "Point oh one of a Euro"? That's nuts.
lol It's not something I really have to deal with since I'm British, the Euro is a relatively modern invention, we have pennies in the UK which are an equivalent to cents.
Pence, yeah, But it's weird that the Euro doesn't have any fractions, when you can apparently break it into fractions (when I went to Greece, the Drachma didn't have fractions at all, so the question was moot. The smallest bill was a 100 note, I think.)
I mean, you'd think they'd have come up with something, even if it sounded like something invented by a soul-less computer.
This is exactly the reason why people in Britain hate the EU bureaucrats so much, even by UK government standards, nothing they do makes sense.
1/100th of en euro is a cent.