Banana - The Most Popular Game on Steam 

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

@@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.

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

"During a gold rush, sell shovels."

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

@@alexholker1309 machinery:

@@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.

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

we are devolving as a species

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

Really hope valve cracks down on this

@@Minebrawlzzz half life 3 rise of the primates

@@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.

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

Money

@@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.

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

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

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

@@acorngnome al my BK0010 games fit into 16 KiB

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

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

@@HandyDandyHandium 😳

hahaha for real

Nah I agree they are horrible

Off topic reviews and nonsense spam reviews are annoying af

i laughed too hard at "balls will drink lemonade"

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

@@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.

Diet NFT

Non cryto NFT

Fungible Token

NFT't

tokens

It's only June, after all

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

Humanity is weird

*"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

*"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

*MY EYEEEES!!!*

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Pair programming. ;)

@@oliver_twistor *Pear programming

​@@leophyte9663Banana programming*

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

@@thefireph0enix they prefer the dark

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

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

It really is quite… bananas

"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!"

literally xD

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

@@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.

This is the funniest thing I've seen all day

​@@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.

They're PNG's.

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

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

@@SahilVerma-wm6ie Talking about electricity not pc resources

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

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

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

Hey at east it's not crypto or NFGs

@@alex_zetsu it's worse

@@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

Another 3 hours and you can buy 1 egg

... and then the world

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

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

​@@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.

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

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

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

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

living the easy life being able to buy banannas that cheap

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

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

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

@@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.

@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.

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

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

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

​@@taeromann5929scam when nobody scam.

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

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.

love ppd

i luv that game

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?

i was thinking the exact same thing

NFTs but controlled by the developer/valve lol

Literally what cs and tf2 items are. Not new.

@@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.

NFTs for babies.

It's an ant trap for the terminally online

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

Couldn't have described it any better

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

st4ck?

they are in malasia and borneo

checkout All The Fruits channel for many types of IRL banana

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

Lol

HAHHAHAHASHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAQHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Respect.

Buh-dum-chhh

Like a chain? Of blocks?

No. BANANA CHAIN

Peel-to-Peel

Peer-to-pee;r

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.

Already has

Oh, hey PowerPak! I think I remember you.

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

We need gaming crash

True

You mean gambling addicts?

Seggsism

you forgot the egg stage (stegge)

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

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

Animal well mentioned 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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

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

ANIMAL WELL IS 34MB?!!

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

That's free market for ya

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

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.

@@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.

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

not looking good for gaming

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

@@wolfetteplays8894 yooo it's wolfette

@@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.

Are we in a pickaxe rush then?

@@Pihsrosnec heyyyy

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

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

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

@@henrynelson9301 crazy

They need to go touch grass

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

I always report reviews that are just memes and ACII art

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

@@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...

Unturned mentioned 🥳

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

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

@@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.

@@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.

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

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

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.

@@HexFemboy is this the gaming industry dying?

@@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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

there is no real reason for them not to

Not surprising

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

• 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

• 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

• OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH BANANAAAAA

Those are indeed great conclusions

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.

Surprise update

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

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.

@@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

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.

@@egel7736 they already are selling bananas containing stolen artwork

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

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

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

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

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

​@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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

+Accurate summary +Puns Good comment

-no random crits

​@@gabrielsantosbastos5257Comment no longer good

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

@@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!

@@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

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

you could have gotten a real job and earned more probably

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.

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

@@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

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

Make a lemon game

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

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

​@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

This issue has existed over a decade.

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

@@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

@@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.

something something treadmill work

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

Oh yeah for sure

Can confirm

Lmfao

@Rumbling-zy3dg L

@@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!

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

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