Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨beep@piefed.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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A new Steam game called Congratulations On Your Purchase is priced at $1000, making it one of the most expensive titles on the platform.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1211656/a-new-steam-game-called-congratulations-on-your-purchase-is-priced-at-1000-making-it-one

According to its creators:

This game is not for everyone. It is for those who understand that prestige has a price.

They also describe it as “the most expensive game on Steam.”

Players enter a palace, walk a red carpet, and see their names displayed for future owners. No idea if this game is a joke or a social experiment

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PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

No idea if this game is a joke or a social experiment

It’s a grift - get one idiot to buy it and you’ll have made a profit. Not an original idea either, “I Am Rich” was pretty much the same thing back in 2008.

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- cheat700000007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Except steam has a refund policy now, wonder how that’s going to work out
  
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- Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, wish I’d thought of it. There are always fools with too much money.
  
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- Mountainaire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, I was gonna say it’s neither a joke nor experiment: it’s a bet that some people will try it and at least one person won’t call for a refund, possibly by missing the refund window.
  
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ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Why give this scam any publicity? It’s been done before.

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- SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s not a scam, buyers get exactly what is advertises. It would actually be better and funnier if it were a scam.
  
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Still cheaper than all the Sims DLC

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- ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not that there’s a big overlap of people who care about those games and people who use Lemmy, but most people bought the DLC on deep discount. And they’ve stopped doing those discounts like they used to.
  
  They also re-introduced premium currency to buy micro DLC, which is something they did with the previous game that was universally hated and they didn’t re-implement in the current one for a decade.
  
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  - Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Guh. I stopped buying Sims Expansions with the last from Sims 3.
    
    I learned my lesson.
    
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mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m reminded of the “I Am Rich” app. The app cost (IIRC) $1000, and all it did was display a floating diamond on the screen. When you tapped the diamond, it displayed the text “I am rich, I deserve it, I am good, healthy, and successful.” That was it. That was the entire app. It was just a way for rich people to waste their money and show off to their other rich friends that they could afford it.

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- mlg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Lol didn’t it get delisted? I think the dev mentioned only like 6 people ever bought it.
  
  Surprised steam hasn’t done the same.
  
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  - realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    ngl that’s still 6000 bucks, 4000 if you subtract app store fees. That’s a damn good result for an app you can probably code in 15 minutes.
    
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pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is just a social engineering attack for rich, gullible people.

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scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I can wait. I’ll pick it up on a Summer Sale or something when it’s 90% off.

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- TBi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Maybe at 99.999% off
  
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FlordaMan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
AI slop description, right?

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- Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yep.
  
  AI Generated Content Disclosure
  The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:
  Some of the store page artwork for this game was created with the assistance of generative AI image tools. The game itself does not use or generate AI content at runtime.
  
  There’s no way a dev is lazy enough to generate their game’s Steam page with AI, and not use it during development as well.
  
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  - Mountainaire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Indeed, disclosures are all meaningless. The only truthful ones are the ones that admit AI use; everything else is suspect. What an era we live in…
    
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DarkSirrush@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Isnt this very against steam ToS?

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- gl38@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  How so?
  
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liking625@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
About right for the stupid times we live in

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Cossty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Maybe base game yes. But isn’t there some train sim game, which with all DLCS is like 6 or 7k?

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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Money laundering?

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BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Kinda salty I didn’t think to make this first. I’d make it an exclusive first-person game with proximity vc.

If some chud wants to give me way too much money just to prove he has it, I’ll take it. I’ll take it and buy a steak dinner for my wife and I and donate the rest to the DSA.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I could’ve sworn there was some instructional game in steam for like $10k or something. Maybe it was less and/or has since been removed.

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- gnawmon@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  you mean the visual novel with ai generated backgrounds?
  
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YabbaDabbaDipshit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Probably already on SU

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