Banana (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by federino@programming.dev to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 year ago

It's an NFT scam, but without NFTs.

No, that doesn't make it better, they're just using steam marketplace items instead.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe we should call them NFAs, Non Fungible Assets. Since it's the same idea without the "Token" part.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

it's just beanie babies the form of virtual bananas

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They're not the first game to exploit that.

So many games got through greenlight because of the trading cards.

[-] bill_cherno@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

yet more proof that there are no usecases that nfts solve,
even if that usecase is scamming people with ~~monkey~~ banana pictures

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