Have you heard of the obscure banana clicker game that’s charging up the Steam charts? With close to 270,000 players, it’s in the top 5. What you may not have heard is that people are buying banana skin drops for as much as $1,390 USD.
There was speculation last week as to why this game became so popular. I, myself, speculated that people saw the skin drops as free money. Back then, the average skin sold for about a penny. This week has seen some wild prices in the banana market. On June 7th, I posted about 100k people playing the game – it’s significantly more now and there are bananas all over the Steam Community page.
Someone sold a Special Golden Banana for just over $1,390 USD. In my previous coverage of this banana epidemic, I mentioned that running the game would barely pay your electric bill. Unless you live in some dystopian nightmare where power is hellishly expensive, I’d guess this banana could pay for your power for a while.
However, only one sold. There is another listed at the time of writing, for about $970, and it does not appear to be selling. The main requests to buy currently only reach $195, so there is quite a gap between buyers and sellers at the moment.
Other notable banana skins include the Crypticnana which sold for over $500; the Diamond Banana which sold for more than 160 USD; and the Cybernana which sold for around $80.
The big questions are… how long will this banana frenzy last? Will the owner of the $1,380 banana recoup his investment? And how, exactly, will this event affect games on the Steam market in the future?
But the biggest question of all is… who paid £1084.45 GBP ($1392.15 USD) for a virtual banana?
Of course, that’s not information I can get my hands on, but it looks like this is becoming a new form of Cryptocurrency and I can only hope it ends up going the same way and fading into the ether. Hopefully, it’s just the hype of a new thing to buy and sell on the Steam Community pages.
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