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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's an NFT scam, but without NFTs.

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

it's just beanie babies the form of virtual bananas

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

They're not the first game to exploit that.

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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