The only achievement is "click the banana", which happens to also be the entirety of the gameplay, yet only 83% of players have it, meaning a not-insignificant chunk of players was curious enough to launch the game but stopped just shy of a single interaction. Truly remarkable.
It's even more weird. You get the achievement only if you close the game. That means a significant amount of players either didn't play this free game or didn't close it since they started it
you guys are thinking about it wrong, so it's free to play that means that just a steam account has it. so let's say I have a bot farm of 1,000,000 steam accounts but the bots are doing the most cost effective thing at all times, lets say their is a spike in a banana price that makes it more worth it for 359,948 for my bots to switch from what they were doing. now 204,034 of those are just opening the game for the first time, they have never click on the game to mine not even once.
Interestingly when you go into the devs recent played games there's also a game called "Egg" made by another dev which is the exact same game with the exact same market speculation thing, seems like this is a common thing. And funnily enough it seems the dev hid their aliases after this video
@@jamestomlin5525 I can guarantee if he disappeared, some mega fans of his would sleuth it out in a week, tops. Probably less time if we're being realistic.
I am sure they also have a flying car NFT so it is still the future you were promised, the psychic message we sent to the past was just delivered by someone that did not really understand what a NFT was, and can you blame not even the investors understand them. case in point this is not a non fungible token, no smart contract established this banana. you have to trust the steam market place not open source the code of the contract, not that investors ever look in to that.
I'm still playing it, because I was one of the first 10k players. But I started selling the normal bananas roughly 2 weeks ago, and they're almost all sold lol.
Dev gets 1p for every banana sold on the marketplace (10% of sale, at least 1p) - between that and fabricating "rare" items to sell themselves, for how much work went into it, they've probably made a gargantuan amount of money.
@@NicholasFoote THIS. I know a game that just left "early-access" (for 10 years lol) and I eventually felt like the company was money laundering, and that's why the dev seemed to be trying to un-fun the game.
@@Rx2TF lots of money launderying happens on steam. it's a pretty decent method of doing it if you don't mind the cut that steam/local taxes will take. Just sending transfers across countries can raise a lot of eyebrows and trigger automatic audits. Doing it through something like steam can obfuscate what's going on for a lil while. To be clear, money laundering is when you take "dirty money"(usually drug money, scammed money, etc) and you do something to make it "clean" money, or money that has a paper trail. This is why steam is valuable for laundering money. You can spin up thousands of bots that purchase marketplace stuff/overpriced games using dirty money on gift cards/whatever, then that money is "cleaned" through steam and sent along. After that, as long as taxes are paid on the income from steam most countries won't raise an eyebrow about this kind of stuff. This is also a really common method for transfering funds out of stolen steam accounts. There are thousands of overpriced games that only sell because of this.
About Lass ich sliden. This is german with "sliden" coming from the english language. "Lass ich sliden" means "I'll give it a pass", like when you do your least effort for a task, and you give it to your teacher and the teacher says "ok, I'll let it pass".
The only reason for all this nonsense exists on steam are for people who into cosmetics and like to customize their Steam profile pages. You can make any game that didn't have any content or gameplay on them and just make some side content that can be showcased on the steam profiles. Like an achievement icon, some wallpaper or anything that the steam profile can showcase. People will buy them for that reason alone. The rules and reason of this world is simple, if people want "a thing" that "thing" becomes valuable, and other people can sell that "thing" to make other thing. This is the purest reason people make some "thing".
I mean, the banana at least is more "art" than Take The Money And Run. You have to actually replace the banana once it rots, make sure it stays stuck to the wall, etc. Take The Money And Run is literally just two blank canvasses. -I love it.-
I hope you have not heard about Bois (or however he is written) "Fettecke" (fat corner). If not, try to find out about it, I don't want to spoil the fun. It's a decade or even more ago but I still smile whenever I think about it.
Probably to make it more likely to be seen by a wider audience. DDLC set the precident that if you have an innocuous simple looking game, but give it the tag "psychological horror", people will get it out of curiosity to see what secrets this game has to offer. Of course, the only horrors here are the horrors of gambling on NFT's
@@ordinarryalien but they can be removed if reported as inaccurate, which is how 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel somehow LOST it's psychological horror tag, a tag which I contend to be 100% accurate. However it has gained the survival horror tag, which is fine too, I guess.
@@doubledouble4g379they actually sold non fungable tulips because they were infected by a virus that made them stripped in a very irregular patern so they visibly very distinct from any other tulip
I'm frankly disappointed that the "game" isn't literally called "tulips". If you're going to be this on the nose, go all the way, claim it's performance art and not just market shenanigans.
At the very start he didn't pay for it and it had genuine watermarks from the places he got them from, but the people from the stock photo pages complained because he was using copyrighted material without their consent. So after that, for some time, we had our usual stock images but without watermarks because Spiff started to buy them. The problem is that during that time most of the comments were "I miss the watermarks". Because of that Spiff decided to add the watermarks back in, but in order to do that he created his own watermarks so people knew he actually paid for them and there wasn't any misunderstanding.
It's even better than that. He _was_ paying for the images, but he was using the watermarked versions anyway because it's fun and quirky. But they told him to stop. (Presumably because it makes it look like it's okay to steal stock photos if you leave the watermarks on.) And, technically, it still counts as copyright infringement because the license grants the use of the _unmarked_ image, not the watermark. The rest is spot on. He did some videos without watermarks, we complained, and he made his own.
I don't know if this term might be something specifically from Lower Saxony where this developer is supposedly from, but as someone from eastern Germany it really makes no sense to me.
It's actually rather simple "I'll let it slide" is a common phrase in english. The developer is just using denglish. "Lass ich Sliden." Same Energy as "I think I spider." and so on.
"But what should probably also establish is that they are potentially a relatively unique kind of German, and I'm not just saying that because they have over a thousand hours on Hearts of Iron IV..." I choked on my drink
He is a beginner, a friend of mine (he and me are also german) has about 3,424 hours playtime and 210/211 Achievements xD And the last Achievement is or was bugged... Also 1.2k hours in Civ and 450 in Victoria, its just insane xD
guy seems mega based. Only seems like the right thing to go support his scam operation by clicking a few bananas if people are gonna make vids to snitch on him lol.
@LeifTunteri-lm6un hmm you must not be very based then if you can't tell ;). Let my man make his money and like Trump if he wants. If he's actually German, then he's basically a unicorn, being like 1 of the only 5 Germans left who aren't raging lefties lol. So he must be protected ;))
Not saying I need these bananas in my life, but I've been researching how to sell my kidneys for the last 45 minutes, and how to grow more kidneys for the last 44 minutes.
If you have illegitimate income, get a dev with no scruples to make a game like this, have a small team of people buying the items direct from Steam using the illegitimate funds, resell those items back on the market, use those funds to buy more items from Steam directly to maximize return. Developer pays the now legitimate funds back to original funder as extortionate rent on a building they're not using (minus their cut). Now you know how to money launder on Steam!
i mean i dont wanna be that guy but you cant launder any real money through a game like this.. so you buy $150000 worth of steam gift cards. then you get audited and go to jail. but lets say you somehow turn your cash into steam credit without alarmbells. you buy $150000 of bananas then you try to sell them. oh wait there isnt 150000 in this banana economy so your just stuck with your bananas. but what if you only wanted to launder say $20k you ask? well you dont. you dont need to launder 20k just spend it. idk why everyone keeps saying this is for money laundering. it isnt. it would be one of the worst possible attempts at money laundering i have ever heard of.
One could also mention that it’s not "schleiden" but “sliden". For those that want to know: It is just the English word "slide" with an additional "n" and thus is pronounced exactly like that. Not that I would expect Spiff to know this, and he pronounced “Lass ich” near perfect.
Also a side note: the previous username "Abschieben schafft Wohnraum" (Deportation creates living room) is something a far right party in Germany uses for the EU elections.
Apparently this makes so little sense that it wants to translate "Embrace Monke get bananas" to "Embrace Monke get bananas" in english. Brainrot detection is a new feature, who knew. Not perfected yet though
for me it was a friend of mine that mentioned the game and how you could get the bananas for free and make money off of it... My emidiate response was "well who the hell is gonna buy a useless banana png ?" and "well sure even if you make money off of it, does the amount of money you made justify the expense in energy, etc ?" Needless to say my friend saw my points and agreed with me.. tho think he still kept running the game on the background or smth 😅
steam sees it and leaves it they profit off it, otherwise the porn and achievement games not even for gaming would have been banned far before AI banned
As the other person said. They don't care. In fact, they profit from developers scamming users. You think if they don't care for cheaters in TF2, they will care for such minor things as people getting scammed? You're naive.
Why would they? They literally make money from this. It costs them absolutely nothing and they get a cut from every payment players make for this game.
@@jakubs.5966 But how is this game a scam? You get free bananas from it and no one forces you to buy them. It is just for making a collection. I mean you get exactly what you pay fo :D.
@@R4MMU5 Well, I assume it to be because I lived the first almost 17 years of my life in Germany, until about two years ago. So German is my native language and I have heard a bunch of Denglisch, like e.g. "Grüß' mal Deine Family!" and other ear cancer-inducing stuff.
Was about to write this vomment myself but you did the first don't know how he got the translation, but i find it kinda funny that he tries to pronounce "sliden" in a germna way when its literally used as an english word with the english pronounciation just different ending
I was gonna comment about this too, but luckily checked the comments first to see if someone already mentioned it! Spiff's German pronunciation is so good but him pronouncing sliden as a German word made me cringe every time
Yeah, probably not humanity. Most of the activity must be bots trying to diversify into high-risk assets. Way too much centralization around an obviously lousy game to be human-driven.
@@oleg4966 With the current state of AI most of those bots are setup and operated by humans. We're quite far out from AI being able to dynamically design new bots to get around detection.
I love how at 2:26 he pronounces the 2 German words correctly, but than miss pronounces the English word that that is literally pronounced the english way.
@@grilledflatbread4692 No, it's "denglisch (deutsch englisch)", english words used with german grammar. You would say "slide" like in english and then add -n, which makes the word work with german grammar. Also he got the translation wrong, it would translate to "I'll let it slide", not "Let me slide".
That's bananas. As for the achievements, I've seen a pack with the h-games. It looked like a very poorly made puzzle games that has got no right to even be considered as real games. I bet the dev spent more time putting the achievements into the steam than on creating the games themselves. I guess the buyers are really desperate to get those easy achievements so they are willing to pay $500 (or something like that) for a pack of 100 or so games.
You don't have to leave the game running, you just have to open the game and click once at the intervals described. No need to rack up an expensive electricity bill, just do it when you're already on your computer.
I thought that it was some kind of prank until I went to steamdb and saw that "banana" had almost twice the current players amount than it was shown on the video, where the only thing above banana is cs go and Dota 2
Genius. Infinite supply and controlled scarcity, profiting of a Steam marker cut and probably buying keys for some key site. I mean who wasn't buying hundreds of CSGO cases at floor price only to sell them year later. I have thousands of Breakout, Huntsman, Chroma, Phoenix and other cases for that sole purpose.
I thought the same. Add item to market and use an alt account to buy it. I dont know how to get money from the steam wallet to your irl wallet but it is probably possible
@@gijskramer1702 Buy games as gifts and sell the codes online. There are plenty of sketchy video game sellers selling codes for games at a fraction of retail. I bought one and I was sent a picture that looked like someone photographed it while stuffed under their shirt. Clearly stolen.
Just couse im a nitpicker. Sliden is not german. its slide, but morphed. Lots of verbs in german ends with -en. We call that denglisch. (deutsch + englisch).
All the devs would need to do to get more people buying banannas is an achievement for having every type of bannanas, so hoarders/collectors try to buy every bananna to show off to their friends
@@TheAnimeEncyclopedia It's an alright game. I played it when it first came out. But the netcode is really sub-par and takes away from the game a lot. The upgrades are also somewhat uninspired, many of them are just stat boosts. Some of them are really fun upgrades, but there really needs to be more, and for some reason the devs just never updated the game. The mods I played have been pretty poorly designed, but I imagine things have gotten better over time.
This is kind of waht I thought when NFTs started coming out of the woods. I am like "we already have this, it's on the Steam marketplace and we didn't need blockchain for it either" lmao.
I thought Osnabrück was quite large. Perhaps I'm confused but don't you guys have your own Uni and airport? Before the global flu with my partner we were considering moving to germany and got an offer as a welder and even told me I could finish my engineering degree there, but perhaps I'm confused. We had issues to find rent without first getting the job and we were hesitant on moving abroad without securing a life project first but it seemed a nice place to live (a bit colder than here tho)
While watching your video: got banana hyped, installed it, played it, got 100% achievements, uninstalled it, liked the video. Now let's watch the rest 12 minutes of it :)
Honestly BANANA is an homage to the times when Germany still had a massive wall in its middle. In East-Germany, getting bananas was so rare, that there were extremely long queues, just to get some bananas, and you didn't get many either. So yeah, banana is a canon event.
that’s it. im making the game “cheese”. just you wait i’ll be rich in no time! edit: i didnt assume id get a ton of likes, literally my record, anyway sounds like people want the cheese game so maybe ill actually have to make it haha. If i do make it i’ll update the comment again i guess
Thank you for covering this game. I was looking down the list of free to play on steam and saw Banana and was wondering why in the world someone would play that.
Love how "Sliden" is a techically a english word, but germanized, so its pronounced just like you would in english "Slide-en" that title more accurately means "i'll let it slide"
You can't sell these after buying them for 25 cents. You have a trade lock for a week and after it's lifted the items will be worthless. The buy and sell offers are likely all by the dev to make it seem like it's a good deal, while just taking your money. Anyone saying differently is lying.
@@The_Extron Bruh the Flying DutchBanana for example was removed from the item store and it is now over 1 euro and there are more like that, you are the liar here XD.
the trick is simple. if a rare item is added to the shop on day 1, and on day 5 it is added to the common drop pool, it will be worthless by day 7 when it can finally be sold.
the devs and their friends use dirty money to buy store bananas, sell them on the community market, buy more store bananas, sell them on the market, over and over until their steam balance is empty. the developer will get a large cut of the money (66%?)
