Credit where it's due, it looks like this guy actually investigated the botting behaviour on steam. We'll soon see now whether Valve really does give a shit about even maintaining the facade of legitimacy on their platform or they're just going to let some shitty idle clicker game being botted on to exploit the steam market run it's course.
Even the dev themselves admitted it's basically a load of bullshit and he's just doing it to generate money. I mean you've got to respect the exploit, but it is an exploit at the end of the day. This is why you can't even trust the stats on steam anymore, pretty much guaranteed that most of the 'players' on all of the platforms are bots and alt. accounts farming various in-game items through playtime rather than playing the game normally.
Realistically it potentially means if you want to see what games people are actually playing it's probably going to be a bit further down the list.
The game is a money printer. After enough clicking you will earn banana “skins” in the game, and because of the ability to sell those a-la-Counterstrike, you can earn actual money just from those clicks. While most skins might sell for three cents, some prices have increased to dozens or even hundreds of dollars. The record right now appears to be $1,345.
lol no wonder people are trying to exploit it, the steam market is completely retarded.
What are the skins for, and shouldn't we blame the idiots that would spend anywhere from $0.03 to $1,345 for the skins?
It's NFTs without NFTs. The skins do nothing, but they must be buying them thinking they can sell to an even greater fool.
Yes we should, but it's becoming clearer and clearer that people who buy skins have the equivalent of a gambling or hoarding problem and they should be classed as mentally ill. If nothing else, they definitely can't be called gamers' because you realise when you see people play the only reason they're doing it isn't to play the game it's to increase their stats and preserve their k/d ratio which leads to witnessing some mind boggling gameplay.
There's definitely a huge problem with gambling and the "stupid tax" as a whole. I don't know how it is in the UK, but sports betting in the US has gone absolutely insane the past five years. I only see it getting worse, and if that makes them mentally ill, the minority of people will still be sane.