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Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#31

Post by dbalatero »

Dysiode wrote: post #28
dbalatero wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my first time buying one of these bundles. I started to play games again this week, so I figured "what the hell?" I paid the pre-selected $1 above-average payment for this bundle. If I have a great time with these games, I will probably double my payment next time. If I don't, I probably won't buy the next bundle at all. Either way, I can get my feet wet again with games with a low barrier-to-entry price. Als…

Don't forget you can increase your payment for this bundle if you really enjoy them. Also, I wouldn't write off the next bundle if this one doesn't suit your fancy. In my opinion the games in this bundle are more casual than games in previous bundles (I wouldn't consider Aquaria, Revenge of the Titans, Penumbra, et al. to be all that casual anyway). Not that you need to worry about the next bundle at this point X3

Good points, thanks!

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#32

Post by StavrosK »

eropple wrote: post #9
chanux wrote: post #4

Linux version pays the best average amount. Is there any message?

"The tiny proportion of people who use Linux on the desktop will pay more for your game if you frame it in the context of 'look, you can be superior to the people who use those other OSes'?" I buy then under "Linux" because I'd like to see more Linux games, but I only very rarely actually play them under Linux. Because it's way too much of a hassle to actually do it. My reasoning is that, perhaps (and it is certainly…

It's a hassle to install the deb and launch the game? It's much easier than installing games on Windows, and that's saying something.

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#33

Post by StavrosK »

Uchikoma wrote: post #8
chanux wrote: post #4

Linux version pays the best average amount. Is there any message?

Yes, Windows and MacOS users spend more money on buying software so their budget is already stretched, while Linux users have money to spent. Or Linux users cannot assess the worth of software as they are not used to buy software. Both probably not what you wanted to hear, and probably not the real reason. I just wanted to point out that we can project everything into the fact that Linux version pays best average amo…

Or "I'll pay more for this to reward these people for making games for my platform, and more developers will hopefully follow."

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#34

Post by sorbus »

dasil003 wrote: post #21
estel wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's fair to say it's "yet another FPS". I think that people who only play Indie titles are missing out just as much as those who only play huge AAA releases.

What about people who only play Dwarf Fortress?

You're missing out too - and I say this as someone who used to only play DF. DF is amazing, but there are tons of other games that are just as amazing or nearly so (Minecraft, Fallout, Terraria, Portal, Spacechem ... dear deity, Spacechem. If you buy one game this year, buy it). None of them really compare to DF in learning curve or sheer complexity, but they're all really good.

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#35

Post by VMG »

StavrosK wrote: post #32
eropple wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The tiny proportion of people who use Linux on the desktop will pay more for your game if you frame it in the context of 'look, you can be superior to the people who use those other OSes'?" I buy then under "Linux" because I'd like to see more Linux games, but I only very rarely actually play them under Linux. Because it's way too much of a hassle to actually do it. My reasoning is that, perhaps (and it is certainly…

It's a hassle to install the deb and launch the game? It's much easier than installing games on Windows, and that's saying something.

I just bought it and I'm trying to run Crayon Physics Deluxe on Arch Linux

    $ ./crayon
    ./crayon: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open 
    shared object file: No such file or directory
Sigh.

Edit:

for anyone who cares, the (undocumented) dependencies are at least:

* nas from the repos

* libjpeg6, libtiff4, libpng12, libssl098 from AUR

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#36

Post by [deleted] »

StavrosK wrote: post #32
eropple wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The tiny proportion of people who use Linux on the desktop will pay more for your game if you frame it in the context of 'look, you can be superior to the people who use those other OSes'?" I buy then under "Linux" because I'd like to see more Linux games, but I only very rarely actually play them under Linux. Because it's way too much of a hassle to actually do it. My reasoning is that, perhaps (and it is certainly…

It's a hassle to install the deb and launch the game? It's much easier than installing games on Windows, and that's saying something.

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Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#37

Post by sheriff »

joshuacc wrote: post #2

The way that they preselect an amount $1 above average is extremely clever. It appeals to people's need to see themselves as above average without costing them anything substantial. Screenshot: http://screensnapr.com/v/QciSbr.png

And it will gradually increase the average every time someone chooses that option.

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#38

Post by alanfalcon »

seanalltogether wrote: post #29
kin wrote: post #26

these are awesome, i just do a $25 and let them decide how to balance it all out. question though, any chance for an iOS humble indie bundle!?

apple doesn't allow for 3rd party sales, best you could hope for is a jailbroken humble bundle.

Think creatively. Create a humble bundle 4 app with an interface that allows you to play any of the included games within the app. Have it be a free download with IAP of various amounts to allow people to show their support that way.

Apple's 30% cut would be a downer, but it could be done.

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#39

Post by starwed »

Dysiode wrote: post #28
dbalatero wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my first time buying one of these bundles. I started to play games again this week, so I figured "what the hell?" I paid the pre-selected $1 above-average payment for this bundle. If I have a great time with these games, I will probably double my payment next time. If I don't, I probably won't buy the next bundle at all. Either way, I can get my feet wet again with games with a low barrier-to-entry price. Als…

Don't forget you can increase your payment for this bundle if you really enjoy them. Also, I wouldn't write off the next bundle if this one doesn't suit your fancy. In my opinion the games in this bundle are more casual than games in previous bundles (I wouldn't consider Aquaria, Revenge of the Titans, Penumbra, et al. to be all that casual anyway). Not that you need to worry about the next bundle at this point X3

I thought VVVVVV was pretty hardcore. (Or maybe I just suck at platformers!)

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

#40

Post by Udo »

Indyan wrote: post #10

The average is less than 5 bucks. That's simply pathetic. If I remember correctly, it was a couple of bucks higher in the earlier editions.

I don't think so. At the time of writing, they're close to a $100k in sales with many more days still to go. If you multiply that by the average developer share you'll end up above $10k per indie dev (that number also is going to go up significantly over the next days). That makes Humblebundle a nice bonus for developers who already invested their time into making these games. Equally important, it gives them exposure to an audience who might otherwise not have tried those games at all.
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