It's pretty concerning that such a blatant cash grab has remained on the Steam store for this long, but it doesn't surprise me knowing Valve's track record. Have any of you encountered this game yet, and what are your thoughts? To be clear, I don’t really care one way or another whether this game is on Steam. If this is something you want to spend your time engaging with, then go ahead. This video just serves to explain why this game has so many players, and some potential concerns surrounding the devs past.

@Lavalobster93

Ай бұрын

i saw it on the marketplace one time, i almost bought a banana as a joke now im glad i didnt

@muizzsiddique

Ай бұрын

@@Lavalobster93 That's probably where half of their players come from.

@eugoth4285

Ай бұрын

I actually got wind of this game like a month or a month and a half ago and thought it was a cookie clicker like idle game. I saw some community posts about special bananas and such and never gave much thought about it and got like 15 bananas or so. The bananas were like 3 cents and I thought this would all die out within a few days after steam saw how blatant exploiting of the market it was. To my surprise this still didn't happen and they let the price of this stuff balloon to insane proportions and I'm pretty sure 99.9% of the "players" are actually bots afking for that revenue

@WunderWulfe

Ай бұрын

looks like NFT but keeping “”play” to earn”, lowering barrier to entry, and making effortless, boring game design even more profitable

@lodef

Ай бұрын

i trade tf2 items occasionally and stumbled across the game after visiting the steam marketplace. i immediately assumed it was some sort of scam and never thought about it again until watching this video. i'll give it a month before the banana economy is completely tanked.

60 MB of game for an image of a banana and a click interaction. True indicator of the level of bloat in today's game market right there.

@efeloteishe4675

Ай бұрын

yeah just the unity executable is like 50 mb at this point

@alexisross9343

Ай бұрын

Yeah, it's unity, it tags a ton of bloat in the package for "just in case" things. The size is literally just because it's a unity package.

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

Also they left a lot of unused assets in the files from the asset packs they used

@8BitsPerPlay

Ай бұрын

@@efeloteishe4675 I mean Unreal Engine is even more bloated for builds and at the moment has to use upscaling for most Unreal Engine 5 and newer games to even run at 60 FPS. Sadly a lot of game engine are becoming bloated and a lot of times the developers themselves can lower the bloat with built in engine tools, but they are too lazy to. Lot of bloat and size in games these days are devs refusing to be smart and use the tools there to fix optimization issues. Take mask and detail maps. They let you put a normal, albedo, smoothness, and more texture maps into a single texture literally lowering the file size for those textures by 5/6. When you have a way to put six textures into one, but games are reaching hundreds in gigabytes in size you know devs are just lazy at that point.

@alexisross9343

Ай бұрын

@@jauwn yep that'll more than do it.

Remember kids, the best get-rich-quick scheme is creating a successful get-rich-quick scheme.

@alexholker1309

Ай бұрын

"During a gold rush, sell shovels."

@Green_Cumulon

Ай бұрын

Turns out the most profitable business has always been snake oil.

@ayuballena8217

Ай бұрын

@@alexholker1309 machinery:

@Roland...

Ай бұрын

@@Green_Cumulon Okay, the amount you're charging people for your items is getting downright criminal. But I'm just a talent description, I can't stop you.

@Marky-Mark1337

Ай бұрын

If you give me a dollar I give you a secret on getting 2 dollars, doubling your investment

It's like quick cash-grabs are destined to be related to monkeys and primates in one way or another

@d3generate804

Ай бұрын

we are devolving as a species

@doomspud6302

Ай бұрын

@@d3generate804 "Our technology has made us gods before we were even deserving of being called men."

@Minebrawlzzz

Ай бұрын

Really hope valve cracks down on this

@terrariapro147

Ай бұрын

@@Minebrawlzzz half life 3 rise of the primates

@annarenfold438

Ай бұрын

@@Minebrawlzzz If they don't give a shit about TF2 and the bot problem, I doubt they will remove the gazillion scam games and bloated early access games that have never been updated beyond their "playable" 0.wathever releases.

So, the dev was banned for participating in a marketplace pump and dump scheme, and yet, they were still allowed to publish Banana on Steam and make all of these items while having sole control on the supply of them? How in the hell does that work?

@werbizzy

Ай бұрын

methinks its because steam no doubt is profiting off of this too based on the section describing who gets % amount of money from each nanner sale though idk, maybe gaben has millions of rare bananas in his inventory as we speak

@michaelhuck376

Ай бұрын

Money

@manzory

Ай бұрын

@@werbizzy Fair point, but it's a bad look for Valve and Steam when someone with a shady history can just pay $100 to publish a cash-grab asset flip like this without any audits.

@MrFearlesskiller

Ай бұрын

@@werbizzy Pretty wrong and you can post basically any game on steam nowadays

@Rootiga

26 күн бұрын

its not even the same account, the account is friends with a lot of the same people and in the same groups though. they would have to prove its the same person or his new account would have to violate the rules in the same way

DOOM: 2.39 megabytes Banana: 60 megabytes

@acorngnome

Ай бұрын

Super Mario Bros. is only 40 kilobytes. Yes, KILOBYTES.

@deniskhafizov6827

Ай бұрын

@@acorngnome al my BK0010 games fit into 16 KiB

@cerulity32k

Ай бұрын

​@@acorngnome And then the Atari 2600 games had to fit in 4KB. With only 128 BYTES of RAM.

@HandyDandyHandium

Ай бұрын

@@acorngnome a screenshot of super mario bros is bigger than the game itself

@acorngnome

Ай бұрын

@@HandyDandyHandium 😳

"thus began my efforts to reverse engineer banana" - Some farmer in Papua New Guinea like 6,800 years ago

If I was 11 with no debit card I would probably be grinding this rn

@Slaat1

Ай бұрын

hahaha for real

16:09 offtopic but i wish someone made a video about the utter state of steam reviews right now, all of them are “LIKE THIS CAT GIVE AWARD GUYS 😂😂😂” or “Give me likes and My baIIs will drink lemonade”

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

Nah I agree they are horrible

@Zak_How

23 күн бұрын

Off topic reviews and nonsense spam reviews are annoying af

@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070

9 күн бұрын

i laughed too hard at "balls will drink lemonade"

@no-replies

9 күн бұрын

What's worse, the people leaving those reviews or the idiots giving them awards and keeping them at the top of the review page?

@bored.random

9 күн бұрын

@@no-replies Probably the people spamming them, you can see all the reviews someone has left on Steam and I see people copypasting the same copypasta 4-16 times. There's even one copypasta that goes "I have one year left to live and this game will forever be with me" that seems to get ~30+ awards from each time I've seen it.

Behold! Nftless nfts!

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

Diet NFT

@apchistuz

Ай бұрын

Non cryto NFT

@diegodankquixote-wry3242

Ай бұрын

Fungible Token

@SheFartedOnMyBalls

Ай бұрын

NFT't

@megapussi

Ай бұрын

tokens

I appreciate that "Banana might just be one of the most shameless cash-grab schemes of the year" leaves open the possibility that there could still be worse ones coming up. I love the optimism!

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

It's only June, after all

@KiddCrowley

Ай бұрын

We still have whatever Ubisoft/Bethesda/Nintendo slop to look forward to

@Demonpumkin

Ай бұрын

Humanity is weird

@Mizuryryn

Ай бұрын

*"All NFT Variant's"* - Crypto Assets > Imaginary Tokens - NFT > Crypto (slop) NFT (may risk of Rugs) - RL NFT > NFT in Real Life - NFT Stock Exchange > NFT but it costs Company stock share (no crypto) - Fungitible Token > Costs real currency, can track - NFTless NFT > Weapon Skins - NFT Cryptoless > Steam Item Store - NFTless Cryptoless > CSGO Skins - NFTless Cryptoless Customizable > Art Commissions - Diet NFT > Antique Product - Vegan NFT > Pokemon Cards - NFT-Lite > Limited Merch Products - Victorian NFT > Old Canvas Art - NFTless Cryptoless Non-Limited > Stock Image - NFTless Cryptoless Stock Exchange > Stock Share

@Mizuryryn

Ай бұрын

*"All NFT Variant's"* - Crypto Assets > Imaginary Tokens - NFT > Crypto (slop) NFT (may risk of Rugs) - RL NFT > NFT in Real Life - NFT Stock Exchange > NFT but it costs Company stock share (no crypto) - Fungitible Token > Costs real currency, can track - NFTless NFT > Weapon Skins - NFT Cryptoless > Steam Store - NFTless Cryptoless > CSGO Skins - NFTless Cryptoless Customizable > Art Commission - Diet NFT > Antique Product - Vegan NFT > Pokemon Cards - NFT-Lite > Limited Merch Product - Victorian NFT > Old Canvas Art - NFTless Cryptoless Non-Limited > Stock Image - NFTless Cryptoless Stock Exchange > Stock Share

11:22 "there doesn't appear to be anything unscrupulous" Right when you're scrolling past an ahegao banana.

@lvbboi9

16 күн бұрын

*MY EYEEEES!!!*

@seneca983

16 күн бұрын

@@lvbboi9 "Anata no banana puni puni da ne!"

Keeping the game open for random banana reward is a genius way to manipulate the top user list. Doesn't cost the dev anything and they get tons of people playing.

knowing that TF2 has more bots than players for the purpose of farming items I wonder how high the rate is here. In the end this is basically CSGO boiled down to it`s final form.

@JoSephGD

Ай бұрын

there's 0 fluctuation in the player counts here... it's all bots

@635574

Ай бұрын

Finally someone understnads this is the crushed remains of taking all gameplay out of CSGO.

@walesbkb

Ай бұрын

If valve wasn't private and tried to flog their stocks with those numbers, they'd be done for it. They know full well it's all bots.

@miciso666

Ай бұрын

cant believe i actually made quite some cash playing tf2... and most of it came from asking my friends for the items they got. as they didnt like it. or knew it had value. i think i made like 60 bucks a month no joke. most from selling rare items. and trading items for other steam games. i didnt pay for portal 2 :D

@MariaFloresRopeLover

Ай бұрын

@@miciso666 That sounds like you are a terrible friend and someone nobody wold want to associate with nowadays lol

Why are there more developers than classes in the code of the game

@oliver_twistor

Ай бұрын

Pair programming. ;)

@leophyte9663

Ай бұрын

@@oliver_twistor *Pear programming

@DemiTF2

Ай бұрын

​@@leophyte9663Banana programming*

@thefireph0enix

Ай бұрын

How many devs does it take to screw in a light bulb. I won't say the answer.

@phillipanselmo8540

Ай бұрын

@@thefireph0enix they prefer the dark

For *tens* of dollars. Even the rare bananas are worth less than minimum wage lmfao

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

That’s what makes this whole thing so silly to me. The $50+ bananas have almost no volume.

@pott3r

Ай бұрын

actually there are $1000+ bananas on the market. not sure if it's possible to receive them in-game.

@WaffleAbuser

27 күн бұрын

It really is quite… bananas

“waiter, can i have less gameplay in my csgo?”

@RipRLeeErmey

6 күн бұрын

"Waiter, waiter! I think there's a bit too much gameplay on my CS:GO. Could you ask the chef to maybe take some off the top?" "Why most certainly! Anything for the customer, sir!" _Is presented with Banana_ "Oh yeah, NOW we're talking! Thanks, waiter!"

At last. Fungible tokens.

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

literally xD

@tomorrowisyesterday3215

Ай бұрын

Funny story, i win giveaway on tf2 third party website, i sell it for couple bucks to buy DBD. Few years later, prices 10x more than originaly. prices i sell. And quantity are very low, now i regret selling it for cheap for quick Buck. Sorry for bad English

@fusrosandvich3738

Ай бұрын

@@tomorrowisyesterday3215 Never feel bad about selling something early, it's for the best you did so. Especially if you got enough from it to buy something you wanted instead. Money you "could have made" is not real. Especially now that tf2 is basically made of nothing but bots, the likelihood of you actually selling it for the price you see listed is incredibly low.

@mildlyconcerning

Ай бұрын

This is the funniest thing I've seen all day

@weegeequeviucoisas9854

Ай бұрын

​@@tomorrowisyesterday3215don't worry about it, these price increases are from artificial inflation due to the trading bot crisis, you probably wouldn't have many any more money off them in the first place.

Please remember kids: It costs your family more money in energy to keep your PC running while you're at school than you can make selling fucking fruit JPEGs.

@Starworshipper

Ай бұрын

They're PNG's.

@Eivissabelle

Ай бұрын

@@Starworshipper your genius, it's almost frightening!

@SahilVerma-wm6ie

Ай бұрын

How do you know that? Pretty sure even browsing yt would take more resources than displaying a banana png with a button

@thecaptem

Ай бұрын

@@SahilVerma-wm6ie Talking about electricity not pc resources

@todesziege

Ай бұрын

@@SahilVerma-wm6ie You're underestimating how inefficiently one can display a banana.

The fact that the scale of available users has hit a point where you can make anything like this, let alone make money off it, is personally more upsetting to me than the product exsiting. It's a sad result of a bigger problem.

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

true, people have nothing better to do and this brainrot is somehow the best they can find.

@BLET_55artem55

Ай бұрын

​@@jauwn"What's better than getting money while rotting your brain tho?"

@alex_zetsu

Ай бұрын

Hey at east it's not crypto or NFGs

@BLET_55artem55

Ай бұрын

@@alex_zetsu it's worse

@henrynelson9301

15 күн бұрын

@@alex_zetsuit’s NFTs but through steam and not requiring people to buy crypto, I don’t see how that’s better aside from not destroying the environment

Imagine running your 1500 watt monster of a gaming machine for 8 hours while you're at work to receive 5-10 cents an hour farming "banana". If you don't see the problem yet, I wish you the best of luck in life.

@terrafair3248

Ай бұрын

Another 3 hours and you can buy 1 egg

@Grasslehoff

Ай бұрын

... and then the world

@48lanlan

Ай бұрын

well thats what people said about bitcoin miners 15 years ago.

@Grasslehoff

Ай бұрын

@@48lanlan try doing that with your home setup at today's rates. I promise you the return will be similar

@RipRLeeErmey

6 күн бұрын

​@@48lanlan ... Bad timing? Crypto went bust 2 years ago after all the pump and dump scams came and went. Even Bitcoin is basically worthless due to how hard it fluctuates.

I bought Bananas yesterday, $0.57/lb 🇨🇦 Skins included. No clicking required.

@sun3k

Ай бұрын

idk how expensive bananas are but isnt 57cent kinda cheap? Also, what skins did you get?

@Horvath_Gabor

Ай бұрын

@@sun3k I guess the yellow ones you had to peel off before eating them?

@ProfessorHeavy1

Ай бұрын

​@@Horvath_GaborI got the rare spotted brown skin, I don't know which ones you're talking about.

@larrymantic2635

Ай бұрын

And you can use them in real life too! Delicious, even!

@emred4653

Ай бұрын

living the easy life being able to buy banannas that cheap

I heard about this last night and thought "Oh it's cookie clicker with bananas" but then there was no upgrades to buy to auto click the banana. Then I thought, "well at least you can change the banana skin" only to find out the skins don't even work with gameplay. Finally I saw one Steam review that explained how it's a scam. The developer responded to it saying it's not a scam because different currencies have different values.

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

I saw that comment too and while the developer is correct it's obviously a non-answer and does not defend the legitimacy of their game

@NeostormXLMAX

Ай бұрын

@@jauwndoesnt matter cope and seethe, the game industry is rotting and a game like this is a fuck you to steam and tripple a

@sireffortlessgarbage7922

Ай бұрын

@NeostormXLMAX I see, it’s like the grindcore of video games

@arturoaguilar6002

Ай бұрын

@@NeostormXLMAX So, giving $5,000 dollars daily to Steam is a fuck you to Steam? Yeah, someone is coping here and it definitely isn't Jauwm.

@AstralAva

Ай бұрын

@NeostormXLMAX How exactly is this a "fuck you" to Steam when they also profit off of every banana sale too? If anything, this game is just feeding in to everything you hate about tripple A gaming even more than other cash grab games. Stuff like Genshin is encouraging bad habits, sure. But at least the things you obtain in that game have an impact on the enjoyment of the game you're playing. This? This is just collecting pointless png's that will be usless in a month. All this game is doing is showing the tripple A industry that they don't even need to make actual content for the micro transactions that they make. Just make speculative PNG's that might increase in price.

I think this is actually one of your best videos, I love how in-depth it is, with both taking a poke at the actual code, digging into the devs and trying to understand the "market" as it is. Good stuff!

This is like that one Luigi meme "She sells sea shells on the sea shore"

Concerning that it's a cash grab: yes. Concerning that people feed it: more so

@taeromann5929

Ай бұрын

It's not just a cash grab, it's a full blown scam at this point

@yunekoVT

Ай бұрын

@@taeromann5929 a scam would entail lying and decieving not people making poor investment decicions else the stock market is a scam

@andrewferguson6901

Ай бұрын

It's basically just steam marketplace in its purest form. Really does a great job highlighting some of the shortcomings and avenue for abuse

@KDYinYouTube

Ай бұрын

​@@taeromann5929scam when nobody scam.

This is like Placid Plastic Duck but instead of getting a cute little duck every couple minutes, who bobs around and interacts with your other ducks, this just gives you a worthless png of a banana

@hamburmer

Ай бұрын

This is like Nothing, but Nothing really does have nothing do with steam market and trades.

@moosenman

Ай бұрын

At least with PPD I can watch things happen, change camera angles, click on the ducks for them to quack, etc. and I don’t think there’s the money aspect besides purchasing dlc for different ducks which I’m more than fine with.

@gusty7153

Ай бұрын

love ppd

@itsghxst

Ай бұрын

i luv that game

@Eavontide

Ай бұрын

i mean i agree but since it's on the market and actually able to be sold it's quite literally worth infinitely more than a duck in ppd?

Bro your channel growth is insane, you deserve it man keep it coming

Great video! I'm shocked Valve is even allowing this game to stay on Steam. I thought games that farm marketplace items were against the rules.

Babe wake up, someone reinvented NFTs

@senkuo5039

Ай бұрын

i was thinking the exact same thing

@crd716

Ай бұрын

NFTs but controlled by the developer/valve lol

@Readesu

Ай бұрын

Literally what cs and tf2 items are. Not new.

@hedgehog3180

Ай бұрын

@@Readesu Well items in CS and TF2 can actually be used in a game that's worth playing, this truly emulates NFTs by being completely useless.

@anemiapwns1

Ай бұрын

NFTs for babies.

It's one of those games that just attract the most annoying people steam, the type to fake hundreds of thousands of achievements, copy paste cat reviews, pay graphic designers for animated "cool" images with their username for their profiles, etc. Lazy cashgrab achievement game #5000000

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

It's an ant trap for the terminally online

@Likemea

Ай бұрын

omg i hate those kind of people, really feels like dead internet theory

@ChesterManfred

Ай бұрын

Couldn't have described it any better

@selectionn

Ай бұрын

the level 500 steam account type of people, for sure.

@ayylmao9094

Ай бұрын

st4ck?

I'm having flashbacks from 15 years ago with TF2's Idle program...

If only real life bananas costed 3 cents

@OsirusHandle

Ай бұрын

they are in malasia and borneo

@OsirusHandle

Ай бұрын

checkout All The Fruits channel for many types of IRL banana

This situation is bananas

@isabellamorris7902

Ай бұрын

B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

@Breadbrowser

Ай бұрын

Lol

@T0HK_Boi

Ай бұрын

HAHHAHAHASHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAQHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@Montgumerz

Ай бұрын

Respect.

@McPoshua

Ай бұрын

Buh-dum-chhh

Thanks for lowering my trust in humanity once again. Seriously, it sometimes feels like we are more likely to erode a wall away by banging our heads on it than to learn not to hit our heads on it.

You know what would be really cool is if there was some sort of public ledger so you could at least verify the supply and rarity of nanas as well as who was buying and selling them. Someone should invent that.

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

Like a chain? Of blocks?

@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070

9 күн бұрын

No. BANANA CHAIN

"Peer-to-peer banana trades", the 21st century everyone.

@gabrielsantosbastos5257

Ай бұрын

Peel-to-Peel

@voidimperial1179

Ай бұрын

Peer-to-pee;r

@antoniolum1506

Ай бұрын

The descendants of Apes have really become sophisticated as of late huh... Just wait till they start implementing laws to regulate unsolicited banana leading to trades on the black market.

Oh this is going to explode into thousands of somehow-even-less-effort-clones and flood Steam isn't it?

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

Already has

@dagda1180

Ай бұрын

Oh, hey PowerPak! I think I remember you.

@onceuponatimeonearth

Ай бұрын

well well well look who's here looking at banana's

@Jackfromshack

Ай бұрын

We need gaming crash

not surprised if half of the playerbase of the game were sols rng players 💀

@saul4265

Ай бұрын

True

@manzanito3652

Ай бұрын

You mean gambling addicts?

Saying a bushel of banana instead of a bunches of bananas makes the bananaphone Raffi in me angy.

banana gets more playtime than egg. Sexism at it's worse.

@scvpest

Ай бұрын

Seggsism

we went from primates buying images of other random monkeys to now buying images of the bananas said monkeys would like to eat. What an incredibly good use of people's time.

@Idran

Ай бұрын

you forgot the egg stage (stegge)

@1TitanicFan1

Ай бұрын

@@Idran True, it appears that the egg comes before the chicken

@yung_trooper6949

Ай бұрын

My bananas are better then@Rumbling-zy3dg's bananas

Perfect timing for this video to pop up in my recommended. Was bored earlier, scouring through Steam when I saw this game on the charts and was curious.

Animal Well (a vast and detailed metroidvania with an array of interesting puzzles and secrets to unlock): 34mb Banana: 60mb

@mhoang2006

Ай бұрын

Animal well mentioned 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@LJCG777

Ай бұрын

It's like if Halo 2 and Halo 3 met and had a baby 👶

@armorhide406

Ай бұрын

Animal Well was optimized. Banana's dev left unused assets and bloat

@deletedTestimony

Ай бұрын

ANIMAL WELL IS 34MB?!!

@nerdatello

Ай бұрын

@@deletedTestimony i was just as confused, looked it up and can confirm it is 34-40mb. wtf 😭

The amount of money Steam made through providing money laundering services has to be insane.

@gordonfreeman1163

Ай бұрын

That's free market for ya

@adampoliak9036

Ай бұрын

brother steam is top 5 most imoral companies itw but search up whats money laundering bcs this isnt it

@rashidisw

Ай бұрын

Laundering services, imply there something dirty that requires the services. But in this case it was simply fools with money, scam? yes; but money need to be laundered? not really.

@spammus1

Ай бұрын

@@rashidisw Criminal organizations use this kind of games to launder money for sure. They do it with Spotify and Apple Music, doing it this way on Steam is even easier and most likely safer.

@PhishyMan

Ай бұрын

so we’re just using words that we don’t know the meaning to?

"Dad i got a job" "Nice son whats the job you got?" "bananas."

This is literally the steam equivalent of SOL's RNG

@thrift272

Ай бұрын

not looking good for gaming

Just a reminder that the only people making money during a gold rush as the guys selling the pickaxes. The developers are the pickax sellers.

@wolfetteplays8894

Ай бұрын

That’s not strictly true. Some people were known to make money off grabbing the gold.

@Pihsrosnec

Ай бұрын

@@wolfetteplays8894 yooo it's wolfette

@loiloiloi6

Ай бұрын

@@wolfetteplays8894 Yeah same thing with crypto and NFTs. The people who come up with it get omega rich, people who time it right get rich, and most of the people just lose money.

@ccricers

Ай бұрын

Are we in a pickaxe rush then?

@wolfetteplays8894

Ай бұрын

@@Pihsrosnec heyyyy

Funnily enough, some dev copied this with "Burger", except that there's no drops, no marketplace, and the number persists. They're basically just using it as a meme way to promote their upcoming (non-NFT, looks actually good) cooking simulator. I "played" it for a laugh and didn't even realize Banana was a thing until now.

@roxinim6479

Ай бұрын

SO BURGER WAS A COPY? oh man :( it's so much better

@ギコ

Ай бұрын

@@roxinim6479 why does it matter lol it's not a copy in any way except to parody

12:12 37 hours on record 💀 bro is mad he spent 37 HOURS of his life on that shit

@henrynelson9301

15 күн бұрын

You can see the hours he had when he made the review. He spent 26 hours on it, left the negative review, then spent 11 more hours

@MrSharkFIN

15 күн бұрын

@@henrynelson9301 crazy

“Please don’t play this.” You can’t make me

These ironic meme games getting all the fake positive reviews trying to be funny have long been an annoyance to me. People are stupid.

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

They need to go touch grass

@todesziege

Ай бұрын

Meanwhile solid good games can't get a handful of reviews.

@jackhazardous4008

Ай бұрын

I always report reviews that are just memes and ACII art

@garfieldunderfridges4810

Ай бұрын

it's ridiculously easy to just make a effortless game and make thousands off from it because of what the average steam reviewer thinks is funny

@Fragenzeichenplatte

Ай бұрын

@@jackhazardous4008 Me, too. Don't know if Valve does anything about it, though. And I can only report a review once because after that the report icon disappears...

can't wait to see someone's steam profile in the next year and see a wall of bananas as their inventory showcase

Thanks for shining a light on these weird inscrutable corners of gaming.

"The digital equivalent of eraser shavings"! XD Weird how I noticed this video in my recommendations and then turn Steam on and a friend is poking me about this game.

There was a thing in Unturned that was a sign that said "Banana 49.95". I got the banana shirt and its still on sale for that price on my store front

@TheResidence.mp4

Ай бұрын

Unturned mentioned 🥳

@KenSG-jz2zn

Ай бұрын

​@@TheResidence.mp4UNTURNED MENTIONED RAHHHHH, WHAT THE FUCK IS A GOOD ECONOMY🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Watched the spiffing brit's video on this yesterday and I was thinking the whole time, 'this feels like a Jauwn video.'

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

Yeah I saw his video got uploaded right as I was finishing recording my voiceover and I was kind of worried but his analysis was really surface level and missed the very important fact that this isn't the first time these guys have done this

@electricindigoball1244

Ай бұрын

@@jauwn Honestly I think this would have been a great opportunity for a collab as it would make it possible to combine his massive reach with your analysis.

@Jokoko2828

Ай бұрын

@@jauwn Just because someone else made a video doesn't mean they own the rights to that topic, if you wanna do a video on the dumb banana scam you're well within your rights to do so.

@chilfang2422

Ай бұрын

@@Jokoko2828 yea and a burger king can open across the street from a mcdonalds. Nothing is stopping them but marketing can get weird

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

@@electricindigoball1244 I don't watch his channel so I don't have any desire to do a collab

Credit where credit’s due, this is a fascinating project

We found Master Kohga's new side-gig. Jokes aside, what gets me is the profiles of the people behind it. I mean.... "German by birth. West-German by God's grace."? If this offers any clues as to that person's humor, I can't help but imagine someone incredibly obnoxious being the owner of that account.

The worst part of this piece of waste is that you don't have a Higher chance of getting rare bananas by actually clicking

@HexFemboy

Ай бұрын

It's literally just a speculative market that uses a bare bones clicker as a way to get on the Steam platform. It's frustrating because even if it was shit, if there was an actual GAME somewhere in there, it would make sense. But it's so transparently exploitative that I don't even know how they get away with it.

@boop004

Ай бұрын

@@HexFemboy is this the gaming industry dying?

@filipe4134

26 күн бұрын

@@HexFemboyThey probably don’t get away with it, Steam just makes a fuck ton of money out of it too so they don’t care.

Imagine you’re on Wall Street and you’re a serious business man. Now you see a digital Banana making more worth than your average stocks

@andrefasching1332

Ай бұрын

wall street? Does anybody really visit physical stock exchanges anymore?

@selectionn

Ай бұрын

in reality the money can only be used on steam, so its almost entirely worthless. the dev doesnt make much money because of the steam market revenue split, and the fact that very few people are buying bananas.

@fusrosandvich3738

Ай бұрын

@@selectionn People sell steam accounts, which is where the actual income is from.

@aminulhussain2277

Ай бұрын

@@selectionn Fairly certain the dev gets real money from their share of the purchases.

'I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson' ahh game

bro saw Sol's RNG and had to take action immediately

Disgusting that valve let's shit like this exist, at all.

@irontownpictures9283

Ай бұрын

Well they do ignore the bot problem in Team Fortress 2, because the bots are still almost 90% of active users. And they make money. A lot

@bobhill-ol7wp

Ай бұрын

Valve has supported children gambling for years, how can anyone be surprised lol

@Leadlobotamist

Ай бұрын

If Valve had it their way, mods would be microtransactions, which Valve seems to still be trying to find a loophole around since this issue crops up every two or three years. This shit isn't really surprising considering how much backlash the original Steam Greenlight had. This was only inevitable. Steam kind of became the Amazon of Video games but instead of aliexpress knockoffs costing 6x the price we get unity asset flips with either bitcoin miners or some kind of exploit.

@kaiserfranzjoseph9311

Ай бұрын

there is no real reason for them not to

@est1569

Ай бұрын

Not surprising

What I learned: • Do you see banana man • Hopping over on the white hot sand • Here he come with some for me • Freshly taken from banana tree • Banana man me want a ton • Give me double and a bonus one • Give me more for all me friends • This banana flow never end

@CrabO2

Ай бұрын

• Do you want a banana? • Peel it down and go mm-mm-mm-mmmm • Do you want a banana? • This banana for you

@MsYvie

Ай бұрын

• Tonight we dance around de flame • Then we get to play de spirit game • Spirit names we shout out loud • Shake de thunder from de spirit cloud

@CrabO2

Ай бұрын

• All de songbirds in de tree • Chant a tune to let de spirits free • Then we see them in the night • Spirits jumping by de firelight

@4storyboss

Ай бұрын

• OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH BANANAAAAA

@net6406

Ай бұрын

Those are indeed great conclusions

This is the best squeetard money printing business I've ever seen in my life

This feels like the dev is going to update this with a virus

@megapussi

Ай бұрын

Why would they do that? This is basically a free money printer, their singular goal right now should be to keep things and lowkey so they dont lose it. People dont just put viruses on shit for no reason, especially not in such an obvious way as on steam.

@tomorrowisyesterday3215

Ай бұрын

Surprise update

@user-is7et4gc5x

Ай бұрын

Nah the income is 2 good... They cant lose the money Farm that easily

@selectionn

Ай бұрын

just put a bitcoin miner in easily excusable high gpu load because "im just a small indie developer, I dont know how to optimize my game" and most little timmys playing this game wont notice. Or just make the miner stop when task manager is open.

@finkamain1621

Ай бұрын

@@selectionn I wouldn't be surprised if it already is because the game wants you to have it open for a while. It's either a miner or it's copying files off your drive

The fan made bananas actually look kinda neat. It's a bummer that energy is going into this rather than anything else.

@egel7736

Ай бұрын

They do, but the majority of them feature stolen photographs and artwork. I kinda hope the developer tries to sell these for real, because that'd open them up for legal action.

@Byzz2077

Ай бұрын

@@egel7736 they already are selling bananas containing stolen artwork

It's like this weird Hamster Combat thing, but somehow even worse.

Now I'm wondering if it would be possible to modify the game in some way to give you more drops. I know you can use mods to get Steam achievements unless the developer explicitly puts in a check for them (and even then you can just mod out the check) so it doesn't seem like a stretch that it would work for inventory items.

@yoursred

28 күн бұрын

@@kagescorpionakki if they have an ounce of competence, there's now the doesn't have anti-tampering

This is, quite literally, a manufactured economic bubble. It's honestly kinda funny. Valve needs to crack down.

@biigsmokee

Ай бұрын

Valve needs to crack down on something giving them free income Hmmmmmmmmmmm

@TheResidence.mp4

Ай бұрын

For once, I have to say that we as a race need to stop being idiots sometimes

@yamm7937

Ай бұрын

If TF2 taught us anything it's that Valve looooves manufactured economic bubbles. It's not going anywhere.

@Jmcgee1125

Ай бұрын

@@yamm7937 At least TF2 (and CS2) items have cosmetic value, ridiculously high as some might be.

@jackskudlarek3138

Ай бұрын

​@biigsmokee its easy to say that in this day and age too. I remember when valve had dignity and would pass on a quick buck if it meant return customers.

It’s funny that they made nfts without needing any of the “useful” web 3 features

At work: "So why do you want 50,000 simultaneous VMs?" "IM GOING BANANAAAASSSS!"

4:58 That text "ONE OF THE FIRST" is made with Canva I can recognize it

This hurts my feelings man. I know some indie devs who busting their asses off to create a good game and only getting like couple thousand players. Meanwhile some dogshit like this getting hundreds and thousands of concurrent players.

@dagda1180

Ай бұрын

I haven't checked yet, but considering its meteoric growth, I'm pretty sure it's just bots.

@Krexel

Ай бұрын

I'm 90% sure it's mostly bots.

@xaf15001

Ай бұрын

You could argue that it's not even comparable. Yeah, that's a lot of installs, but I'd say it's not even a game. It's like comparing games to Paint Studio Clip, just different type of app.

@tomburress4928

Ай бұрын

One of the developers has recently admitted that only about a third (possibly even less now) of the players are actual humans. The rest are bots

@joshiemah

Ай бұрын

It’s a genius idea and it gets rewarded. Indie devs are just working on their passion projects. Also 2k players active is not a bad number. Classic "work smarter not harder" in effect here.

This situation seems to be a real slip-up on valve's part. Makes their platform completely una-peel-ing!

@iamjustkiwi

Ай бұрын

+Accurate summary +Puns Good comment

@gabrielsantosbastos5257

Ай бұрын

-no random crits

@realPurpleOrb

Ай бұрын

​@@gabrielsantosbastos5257Comment no longer good

This feels like a future coffeezilla video

You know that banana 2 fruit has already been released? It's time to move it off the pedestal!

I do agree that kids would definitely go into this to get some free money. When I was younger and steam cards suddenly shot up in price because of a summer event, I immediately grinded for and cashed out every trading card I could and got at least $15. Which for a jobless kid in the middle of Steam Summer Scale is gold!

@johncruelty1

Ай бұрын

in what world o you live where steam cards cost more than 0.15

@erikaz1590

Ай бұрын

@@johncruelty1 It was a magical time. You had to be there to believe it! You could sell trading cards for $1-3 dollars at the time! Multiple that by like 5 cards a game for your entire library, and you could make a fairly decent amount of pocket change, combined with steam summer deals!

@redacted4488

Ай бұрын

@@johncruelty1 i don’t think you have really collected or traded cards much. When i used to collect them, i had some as expensive as $1.20 per card, as well as foil cards. i got like $120 for selling half my cards

@johncruelty1

Ай бұрын

@@redacted4488 most expensive i sold was a 10$ foil

@OsirusHandle

Ай бұрын

you could have gotten a real job and earned more probably

Turning your computer off at night will probably net you more money in saved electricity cost than leaving an autoclicker on in Banana ever could

@thescarf926

Ай бұрын

You don't even have to leave the game running. Just click once in a while, turn off your pc and the next time you open the game you'll get a few bananas. So I don't really see your point.

@lucascampbell8521

Ай бұрын

@@thescarf926 I haven't played it, I assumed you needed to keep the game on

@R_E_D22

Ай бұрын

@@thescarf926 did you not watch the video he clearly states to be considered active you have to click every 3 hours and you do have to leave your pc on

@R_E_D22

Ай бұрын

@@lucascampbell8521 you do and you have to click every 3 hours to be considered active to get drops

the sad part is you'd probably make a similar amount clicking image of a banana than grinding some of the f2p MMOs nowadays where weeks of your time are worth like $50 in the itemshop

I love it when to display a picture and a counter you need a full 60Mo program size without anyone being annoyed about it

@ThisFeatureKindaSucks

Ай бұрын

Make a lemon game

It's quite impressive that they could do all this without bLoCKchaIn TEchnoLogY

@scientificthesis

Ай бұрын

I think Steam's marketplace might count as a form of blockchain

@marwan7614

Ай бұрын

@@scientificthesis Nah i think it's just a digital market, No blockchain technology involved .

@ferociousfeind8538

Ай бұрын

​@scientificthesis Steam would collapse under its own energy and performance requirements if it used something as energy-intensive and, for lack of a better term, _single-threaded_ as a blockchain to store the many, many, many transactions and account inventories. It's an actually reasonable data structure on the inside

I guess you could say this is literally... Monkey Business

my friends devs are making joke about "while you are dyng for work there is someone making a banana"

Here's the thing that many people forget and probably why because Valve hasn't done anything yet: in order to unlock the Steam Market you need to spend 5 bucks with your account, so in practise only the bots that generate rare enough bananas will be worth the "investment" and then the Steam store will also get those 5 bucks. This isn't Valve's first rodeo with item farming

So, it almost seems like someone saw how certain bots are idle farming items in TF2 and decided to make a whole "GAME" based around this same process Atleast that's my theory since the nature and scale of TF2's idle bot problem was exposed not too long ago

@emperorfaiz

Ай бұрын

This issue has existed over a decade.

What is up with modern Valve? They are letting scam games on Steam and they are leaving their own games to rot. What's next? Games with malware?

@Xyler94

Ай бұрын

I'll tell ya, people complained that Valve were curating their store, so they opened the floodgates. Valve does not really care, as long as it's not illegal. They get a cut from all sales on Steam, including community market sales Want this to end? Don't encourage games like Banana

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

@@Xyler94 I do think that Valve probably will ban these guys since the lead dev is ban evading + he's done this kind of scheme before. But yeah, as long as something makes money, Valve really doesn't care

@Xyler94

Ай бұрын

@@jauwn oh for sure, but Valve was put into a reactive state by developer and gamer backlash decades ago, so now this is how it has to be. I was just replying to why Valve are letting games like this in. It's simply because Valve no longer curates their store due to demand.

@hugh2861

Ай бұрын

something something treadmill work

@pikmin_79

Ай бұрын

@@Xyler94 I do wish stores were curated more. It's like the Wild West of junk games for most online gaming stores nowadays

This is honestly kinda genius as a get-rich-quick scheme, banking on Valve’s hands-off track record

Amazing video, great information, subscribed!

Lol I recognize the background of that cybernana from a WallpaperEngine wallpaper I used to have. If that art isn't up for free use it's probably stolen.

Do people still use Steam marketplace for money laundering?

@jauwn

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah for sure

@FittZone.

Ай бұрын

Can confirm

btw silent loggers only activate themselves via external embdded scripts ONLY when you do something on their 'trigger' list, while seeming benign you should try to scan your web traffic for the banana game when you open a crypto wallet or doing crypto transactions /just a suggestion/assumption enjoyed your video just like your ever other previous videos :D GG

this feels like what NFT looks like in the BTD universe

The most shocking reveal to me is that PUBG's official title on steam is "Player Unknown's Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds"

@JA-nv4zb

Ай бұрын

Lmfao

@leoromeli7611

Ай бұрын

@Rumbling-zy3dg L

Man if I knew that you could just vomit items to player's inventories I couldve done this myself ...

Hi, Jauwn! You might be interested in this story. I played a game named "Shatterline" for a while. The game was cool, but it had very few players due to early access and lack of marketing. So now Fraglab (developers) are partnering with Faraway (NFT company) and are going to move from Steam to Epic and implement NFTs into game. Majority of the old playerbase is dissapointed and leaving the game. I think you can make an interesting video about this game because you can compare it before and after addition of NTF. But note that the servers will be closed after August 1 and untill release on EGS. Looking forward to see Shatterline on your channel

@jauwn

19 күн бұрын

@@nick_defrunct a couple people mentioned this to me but I know nothing about the game, plus I’m already working on a big video right now. So I don’t think it would make any sense for me to cover it. But I appreciate the suggestion!

@nick_defrunct

19 күн бұрын

@@jauwn I see. Well, I hope you will remember about this game at some point

Played this a long time ago, didn’t know how deep the rabbit hole went for this Game, Great Video 👌

"Unlike some items on the steam marketplace, banana's are considered a commodity" This killed me. I think I have had enough internet.

I can’t even blame the devs if that many idiots are downloading and “playing” banana. I hate that greed and stupidity has slithered its way into gaming. Everything really sucks now.

@Dread_2137

Ай бұрын

What's funny to me, the idiots here are mostly russians, scammed by Germans of all people 😂