i like banana

[ashura]

yup

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

That's right, buy all the Bananas on the Market and make the game dev rich before Valve shuts it down.

[BOBTOMAS]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

That's right, buy all the Bananas on the Market and make the game dev rich before Valve shuts it down.

:taloslol:

Money from the steam marketplace cannot be converted to real currency. Or am I wrong?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

That's right, buy all the Bananas on the Market and make the game dev rich before Valve shuts it down.

Money from the steam marketplace cannot be converted to real currency. Or am I wrong?

There are ways around that which Valve tries to mitigate but can't completely get rid of.

You heard of CS skin sites, right?

[BOBTOMAS]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

Money from the steam marketplace cannot be converted to real currency. Or am I wrong?

There are ways around that which Valve tries to mitigate but can't completely get rid of.

You heard of CS skin sites, right?

:winterbunny2023:

I didn't know that you can make real money with CS skins.
Are you telling me that I can sell a CS skin and then find the money in my bank account?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

There are ways around that which Valve tries to mitigate but can't completely get rid of.

You heard of CS skin sites, right?

I didn't know that you can make real money with CS skins.
Are you telling me that I can sell a CS skin and then find the money in my bank account?

The whole thing is, you "trade" your items to buyers on those shady skin sites for the "promise" of real money through Bitcoin, Paypal or whatever and sometimes people get scammed.

But yes, you can technically "sell" (trade) them like that for real hard cash.

[BOBTOMAS]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

I didn't know that you can make real money with CS skins.
Are you telling me that I can sell a CS skin and then find the money in my bank account?

The whole thing is, you "trade" your items to buyers on those shady skin sites for the "promise" of real money through Bitcoin, Paypal or whatever and sometimes people get scammed.

But yes, you can technically "sell" (trade) them like that for real hard cash.

:winterbunny2023:

The trick is to execute the transaction outside of steam. Correct?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

The whole thing is, you "trade" your items to buyers on those shady skin sites for the "promise" of real money through Bitcoin, Paypal or whatever and sometimes people get scammed.

But yes, you can technically "sell" (trade) them like that for real hard cash.

The trick is to execute the transaction outside of steam. Correct?

The "trade' still happens through Steam since that's the only way to move the items to another account but everything else is done outside of Steam with the hope that there are no records in Steam about the deal as to not get the accounts locked or trade banned.

[BOBTOMAS]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

The trick is to execute the transaction outside of steam. Correct?

The "trade' still happens through Steam since that's the only way to move the items to another account but everything else is done outside of Steam with the hope that there are no records in Steam about the deal as to not get the accounts locked or trade banned.

:winterbunny2023:

OK,
From bananas we moved on to eggs...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2784840/Egg/

[Pierce Dalton]

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

The whole thing is, you "trade" your items to buyers on those shady skin sites for the "promise" of real money through Bitcoin, Paypal or whatever and sometimes people get scammed.

But yes, you can technically "sell" (trade) them like that for real hard cash.

:winterbunny2023:

The trick is to execute the transaction outside of steam. Correct?

Pretty much, yeah. People can then "gift" the item on Steam (if they are honest sellers...).

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

The "trade' still happens through Steam since that's the only way to move the items to another account but everything else is done outside of Steam with the hope that there are no records in Steam about the deal as to not get the accounts locked or trade banned.

OK,
From bananas we moved on to eggs...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2784840/Egg/

Other people mentioned that one too. Same concept except that one definitely has a lot of copyright protected items, while Banana may have a few.

[BOBTOMAS]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

OK,
From bananas we moved on to eggs...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2784840/Egg/

Other people mentioned that one too. Same concept except that one definitely has a lot of copyright protected items, while Banana may have a few.

:winterbunny2023:

In any case, bananas and eggs are to be considered gambling. CS: Maybe not.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Other people mentioned that one too. Same concept except that one definitely has a lot of copyright protected items, while Banana may have a few.

In any case, bananas and eggs are to be considered gambling. CS: Maybe not.

Market speculation. Similar to but not quite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVLPx-4O48

[BOBTOMAS]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

In any case, bananas and eggs are to be considered gambling. CS: Maybe not.

Market speculation. Similar to but not quite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVLPx-4O48

:winterbunny2023:

The Spiffing Brit
I don't like him, sometimes I think he's scammer too

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Market speculation. Similar to but not quite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVLPx-4O48

The Spiffing Brit
I don't like him, sometimes I think he's scammer too

He does good things for some game devs, even Valve by shedding light on exploits/bug on Steam.

Is he a scammer? Probably not.

[BOBTOMAS]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Publicado originalmente por EFFE:

The Spiffing Brit
I don't like him, sometimes I think he's scammer too

He does good things for some game devs, even Valve by shedding light on exploits/bug on Steam.

Is he a scammer? Probably not.

:winterbunny2023:

It probably isn't. However. It must be said that he has not refrained from exploiting many "exploits/bugs" that valve and other developers have not fixed.

Let's just say that I don't find it very ethical to exploit other people's "problems" to make money.