The maximum online clicker Banana in Steam has exceeded 480 thousand. As a result, the game has risen to the third position of the most popular games on the platform, behind only Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2.
Why Banana is so online
Banana is a clicker in which players can only click on a banana. When a player makes a certain number of clicks, they receive an item that can be sold on the Steam marketplace. Most of these items are worth a couple cents. However, the cost of certain banana skins reaches several hundred dollars. The record value of an item from the game is 1,345 dollars.
Most of the players in Banana are bots that were launched for the purpose of earning items and selling them on the trading floor. One of the clicker's developers confirmed that some players use 1,000 accounts each to get massive drops. According to him, when the game's max online was 141,000, the proportion of "real" players was about 30%.
The creators of Banana appealed to Valve for help, complaining about the mass activity of bots. The company has not yet responded to requests to deal with the situation. Forbes noted that Valve may have to regulate such projects created for the purpose of making money.
