I like that the top purchasers are advertisements.
To increase the value of ending up on a Top 10 or Top 100, they should provide purchasers with more opportunity for exposure, including logotypes, presentations and links to websites.
Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out
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Re: Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out
#82I was really impressed how well this pay-what-you-want scheme worked last year. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like a viable payment option for smaller developers who have yet to acquire the status of these indie darlings. As an aside: I always end up already owning the majority of games in these bundles, but I buy them anyway. Here's to hoping we can eventually register this one on Steam too.
It's not a "viable" model for the /developers/ involved in the Humble Indie Bundle. Not in the sense of pricing for /new/ releases, at least. However, each of these games have been out for sufficiently long that having people name their price now is mainly extra frosting on top of an already well-decorated cake. It's a tiny bit of extra market penetration /after/ the game's already made an impact - along with some go…
That's not completely correct; although Revenge of the Titans has been available for purchase & play whilst in beta, I think this is in fact its official release.
Re: Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out
#83Does anyone know which of the three payment providers (Paypal, Google Checkout, Amazon) end up charging the least, so as to maximize my amount that goes to the devs/charities/etc?
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#84I just love how silky smooth their fulfillment is. If BCC downloadable were still under active development, I'd be stealing bits of it. (Hmm, personalized bookmarkable page with direct download links, keys, and settings... Hmm, waiting for Paypal hourglass. Hmm, "as long as we've got you here, please hit our sharing buttons" under the hourglass")
I have no idea what you just said.
Re: Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out
#85Does anyone know which of the three payment providers (Paypal, Google Checkout, Amazon) end up charging the least, so as to maximize my amount that goes to the devs/charities/etc?
I believe that Amazon's and Paypal's rates are exactly the same, but Amazon picks the cheapest rate automatically depending on if you pay more or less than $10 or so (it automatically considers it a micropayment and charges the appropriate rate), so I'd go with that.
PayPal charges a standard rate that you pick (micropayment or not), and if the guys thought most payments would be under $10, they might have optimised for that, so your purchase would be more expensive with PayPal.
TL;DR: Just pick Amazon.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a +$20 delta for me, at least.
How does Steam earn this premium with you?
For me:
1) All my games in one place.
It's come to the point that I just don't buy games unless they're on Steam. I own most of these games already (I got Machinarium on another sale), but I hate having to save their .zips because my games will be lost otherwise.
Machinarium, for example, has cluttered my desktop for months now because I have no way of getting it back if I delete it, and I have no "games" folder I can move it to. With Steam, I could just delete it and redownload whenever.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I gave all to the developers. What is the `humble tip' category good for?
That supports Humble Bundle, Inc. the company which made the bundle. :) Otherwise we actually lose money, but it's all good. -cofounder
Will we get Steam keys for the games? If yes, you can have my $20, even though I have most of these games already.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Edited: Bought the package and attempted to install the games. Of the five, on Ubuntu 10.10 x64: Braid: Installer was a .bin which gave me some ELFCLASS64 errors, but the game runs. I just can't figure out how to get it windowed, so it's currently centered between my two monitors. Cortex: Installer was a 64bit bin, installed OK, but the game gives me an error about a missing file when I run it. Tried to touch the fil…
"I just can't figure out how to get it windowed" You tried the -windowed option? I can't run it at all. It says "Missing required OpenGL extension".
The comments over at LWN may help: http://lwn.net/Articles/419828/ (maybe "the missing extension can be enabled with driconf" applies?)
Re: Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out
#89I was happy to see that Notch knocked the advertisers off the top of the 'top contributor' list by paying $2000.
Also, I'm impressed (though not surprised) to see the sale crack $500 in about a day.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I just can't figure out how to get it windowed" You tried the -windowed option? I can't run it at all. It says "Missing required OpenGL extension".
The comments over at LWN may help: http://lwn.net/Articles/419828/ (maybe "the missing extension can be enabled with driconf" applies?)
Yes, here is the bug report and work around, which worked for me: