As ever with these trends, copycats have started springing up.
No one is playing any of these games because they're 'fun' they're doing it for the skins. It would be kind of funny if what ends up killing the skin market overall would be these idle clicker games unless Valve decides to have a clamp down.
I'm still pondering the maths behind the trend a bit, with botting and cheating it's definitely going to be worth it for some people to do this. All I know is as far as I'm concerned multiplayer gaming that has any kind of micro-transactions like this are massively dead to me and these idle clickers are clearly an exploit people have found in the market.
Edit: There's a third copycat game that I didn't notice LOL, the cancer is spreading
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3015610/Banana__Cucumber/#app_reviews_hash
Not being funny I am curious but didn't you ever watch the 'hunting for whales' video? It's this games industry type who did a presentation on it and details exactly how they deliberately psychologically target the sorts of mentally ill people who buy into it and they know for a fact that the vast majority of people won't pay a penny for these games.
Seems like we need to potentially spam that video around again because it's very relevant to this, yes, there are retards who want to buy these skins thinking they can speculate on them but they just have an addiction problem and are being taken advantage of. There's also this absolute psycho from Riot games who performed psychological experiments on the studios' own fanbase and this is why I reeee so hard about glowies and gambling in video games.
None of these people are gamers who take part in this shit they are corrupting the industry hard. I was getting annoyed seeing the way people play on CS:2 these days compared to back in the day and I started wondering how many of these accounts were just phoney bots idling for skins or people trying to preserve k/d among other things.
A big part of why you see so many shit heads I think trying to make a game go F2P on the steam pages or weirdly begging for achievements is probably just these retards wanting to farm skins or trading cards is another one.
I remember when the gaming industry got slapped with gambling regulations and the top corporate leeches of the studios who had paied gambling mechanics ''warned'' that they would have to find ''other ways'' to monetize their games.
Yes the ones who sell games $60 - $80. said that too.
Glowies have infiltrated the games industry at every level, psyops are real and yes, they are out to get us.