Iucounu
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If an indie "game" can become this successful with the help of bots, rest assured AAA games can manipulate the charts with bots too...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_(2024_video_game)
some players have been able to run large numbers of alternate accounts simultaneously to maximize profit.
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the significant botting problems lead to inflate player counts — a lead developer stated that around two-thirds of players were bots in early June ... becoming the 2nd most played game on Steam