Not at all surprised, the demo for this was really solid.

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    I get where you’re coming from, I found out Borderlands 4 launched when I saw the news about it having performance issues. That said, if you look at Steam charts Borderlands 4 is just smidge below Silksong numbers and at the time of writing this comment Silksong is the 4th most popular game and Borderlands is 6th most popular game, barely beaten out by a game called Banana (which I’ve never even heard of and I have no clue why it’s that popular).

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      Banana (which I’ve never even heard of and I have no clue why it’s that popular).

      It’s an idle/clicker game that drops steam items that can, theoretically, be sold for money. I can’t recommend it.

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        I get what kind of a game it is. I don’t get how that is so popular. We’re talking about player counts that not even Destiny 2 could reach. The only rational conclusion I came come to is that those numbers have to be botted.

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          my guess is that a lot of people let the game idle in the background to farm items, that’s why it’s so “popular”. It’s not “active players”, it’s just a large number of people farming items in the hopes to get one they can sell for a larger sum.
          Afaik it has been in the top charts for over a year.

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          I can’t find any info about a blanket ban on idle/clicker games, and quite frankly, I don’t see why valve would ban them.

          For them, it’s free money:

          1. the developer has to pay a flat fee for the game to appear on the storefront
          2. the developer has to pay an additional fee to enable community items
          3. both the developer as well as valve receive a percentage cut of the sale price in the community marketplace