It's an NFT scam, but without NFTs.
No, that doesn't make it better, they're just using steam marketplace items instead.
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A youtuber called Jauwn has a pretty good video about this garbage
Is this some kind of Ponzi scheme? The "devs" and Valve get cuts every time some idiots buy those items.
It's a different scheme. While the developers can print as many items as they want if they want to, the prices are entirely made out by the community. So they just manipulate the odds to make some items rarer. If they print the same items, the price will fall right off.
However why the game has this much players is that its really easy to bot.
I see, it does not match all the properties of Ponzi scheme. But those people are idiots. And Valve really should intervene this since similar titles already popped up. Basically there is no end to that.
I wish GOG had local prices like Steam.
People still play PUBG?
Love me some PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Battlegrounds.
Not the same thing but I love me some PUBG Mobile.
The creator must be shitting his pants with the publicity this gane is getting. Someone that makes a game like that is surely trying to exploit opportunities. They have to be doing something illegal, whether that be illegal business practices or avoiding taxes.
the marketing is bad for them? I don't follow
If it gets too much publicity, it may catch the eye of a regulation agency that could start an investigation, especially if he pisses someone off, and that person makes an anonymous tip to a 3-letter agency as revenge.
cool, that's interesting