Gamers have been discussing the weak performance of games for a while now. One developer made a foolish joke, stating that his game would mine Bitcoins in the background.
One developer claims that the performance is only so poor because Bitcoins are being mined in the background.
In retrospect, it was explained that it was all just a joke and that the joke was removed. This was likely due to fear of a ban from Valve. Some understand the joke, but others find this action quite tasteless.
Developer says: It was all just a joke because Steam wouldn’t allow it anyway
Which game is it about? Open Mod 2.0 is a PvP shooter where you shoot your opponents from a first-person perspective. The game currently has around 500 reviews, but they are only balanced. Especially the poor performance of the game has been criticized. Some speculated that a Bitcoin collector must be behind it.
What was the joke about? The developer made fun of this criticism and stated on the shop page that the crypto miner could also be disabled for a performance boost of 70% (via reddit.com). And this would only cost about 20 euros:
What did the developer say now? One developer posted on Steam in the forum explaining that the mention of Bitcoins was just a stupid joke. They posted the joke about cryptocurrencies after so many players complained about the poor performance. He wrote:
Hello everyone! Man, that was just a joke, crypto mining is not allowed on Steam, this game is not a crypto miner, we made this joke due to the old criticisms when the game didn’t run well on low-end PCs and people just copied the crypto mining accusation. That’s all.
What happened next? The developer quickly removed the joke from the shop page. Many suspect that Valve would have banned the game otherwise. Because with cryptocurrencies and AI projects, Valve shows no mercy and usually removes such programs immediately. Valve stated back in 2021, that they want to remove all games with cryptocurrencies and NFTs from the Steam shop.
Players on reddit find it more or less funny. One explains that it would have been strange if Valve had allowed a developer to upload a Bitcoin miner to the servers. He explains:
Considering how strict Valve is with the removal of AI and controversial features, I would be shocked if they allowed a game with a real Bitcoin miner to be uploaded.
Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are currently experiencing a big hype again. Because Bitcoin reached a new high a few weeks ago and briefly exceeded 40,000 euros.
Especially one user benefited particularly from this high and everyone discussed who this user might be:
