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
I’m reminded of the “I Am Rich” app. The app cost (IIRC) $1000, which was the price cap for the iOS App Store at the time.
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.
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.
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.
I think they probably made some real sakes, but a lot of people got refunded because they were confused and thought it wasn’t real. It’s been ages, the details are fuzzy.
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.
Except steam has a refund policy now, wonder how that’s going to work out
Yeah, wish I’d thought of it. There are always fools with too much money.
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.
It’s not a scam, buyers get exactly what is advertised. It would actually be better and funnier if it were a scam.
Maybe base game yes. But isn’t there some train sim game, which with all DLCS is like 6 or 7k?
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.
Guh. I stopped buying Sims Expansions with the last from Sims 3.
I learned my lesson.
This is just a social engineering attack for rich, gullible people.
I can wait. I’ll pick it up on a Summer Sale or something when it’s 90% off.
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.
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…
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.
I am not familiar with what you’re talking about. It may well could have been presented as a visual novel, but only in the sense that you click through it. My recollection was that it was a corporate training thing (which have similar layouts to visual novels lol). As far as AI generated backgrounds though, I don’t think so. Memories are not reliable, of course, but I’m fairly certain this was pre pandemic. AI images existed then, but it was mostly the dog-filled deep dream images and sketchy dall-e stuff. Maybe it used that, it’s not impossible, but it wasn’t really at the level of quality back then where you’d be tempted to use it over stock images.
I think the program had something to do with fire diamonds, those 45° offset squares with numbers in the top three corners to give a quick overview of dangerous materials are.
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.
