Pirate's Money

-8000/98954040 counting the days until steam locks the market for these games and shuts them down.

[quote]Warning: Microtransaction infested mobile app[/quote] Pirate's Money is one of thousands of nasty mobile apps infesting the "free" section of Steam, but it's not really free. There's only a superficial "game" here. This mobile scam leverages Valve's inventory system in lieu of using a (banned on Steam) NFT blockchain mechanism to track in-game goods (that, of course, you can pay lots of money to the Brazilian developers for). These items are all P2W stuff, of course, so ready your wallets to give all your money to the developers for this mobile app. Yeah, it does look like some kind of cute screen tapping pirate game with a bunch of asset flipped looking cartoony pirates, but it's not really. It's just a veneer wrapped around a nasty, predatory mobile app cash shop. The true purpose of this mobile app is to get you to hand your credit card details to the greedy mobile devs so you can buy stuff in the nasty cash shop... it's a mobile app cash harvester, and has no place in your game library. On pricing and value for gamers, this isn't really free as the game is infested with mobile app store like microtransactions. This is a consumer hostile model that we don't need to see on PC. It's deceptively priced to gouge gamers, and that's a reason in itself to avoid this. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. I'm glad their scam failed. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.

0/66 into the hidden game abyss with you.