I think this might be the best one yet
Agreed, Super Meat Boy alone is worth whatever you may pay, in my opinion :)
The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
11–20 of 68 posts
Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
#12Can anyone post a list for those of us behind a firewall? Thanks!
Gratuitous Space Battles (if pay more than average) Gave Story+ (if pay more than average) Jamestown Bit.Trip Runner Super Meat Boy Shank NightSky HD
Avg currently 4.70 (was 4.64 about 1 minute ago! climbing fast, damn HN!)
Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
#13For anyone curious why this is here, Humble Inc is funded by YC -- beyond it being a collection of cool games people might care for.
edit: I was wrong, not just YC. They have $4.7m from Sequoia[1] too.
[1] http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/22/sequoia-capital-ba...
Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
#14A good friend of mine wrote Jamestown- kick ass game, and way to go!
Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
#15I just bought this one but wasn't there another bundle just last week? I wonder if too many too soon will lead to bundle fatigue
I agree. I used to get really excited about the humble bundle. They had a few noteworthy games per bundle (All the games they have are good, but some are less known than others). Now that it's a monthly affair I get the initial perception that the bundles have less noteworthy games and that I'm getting tired of so many of them. After a bit of thought I realize I /am/ paying just a few bucks for a lot of games and hel…
Humble bundles are now back to back. Indie Royal is every 2 weeks, and 2-3 other copy-cat bundles come out pretty often too.
Also, I don't know how often steam sales happen, but every time I go online there is one going on (~50-90% off kind of sales).
Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
#16I just bought this one but wasn't there another bundle just last week? I wonder if too many too soon will lead to bundle fatigue
I agree. I used to get really excited about the humble bundle. They had a few noteworthy games per bundle (All the games they have are good, but some are less known than others). Now that it's a monthly affair I get the initial perception that the bundles have less noteworthy games and that I'm getting tired of so many of them. After a bit of thought I realize I /am/ paying just a few bucks for a lot of games and hel…
For my money this is the best bundle so far. Cave Story+, Bit Trip Runner, Super Meat Boy, and Jamestown are all highly regarded games, which I've been wanting to play for some time. The others I don't know much about, but that's part of the reason why these bundles are cool, to experience some games you wouldn't have come across otherwise?
Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. I used to get really excited about the humble bundle. They had a few noteworthy games per bundle (All the games they have are good, but some are less known than others). Now that it's a monthly affair I get the initial perception that the bundles have less noteworthy games and that I'm getting tired of so many of them. After a bit of thought I realize I /am/ paying just a few bucks for a lot of games and hel…
Humble bundles are now back to back. Indie Royal is every 2 weeks, and 2-3 other copy-cat bundles come out pretty often too. Also, I don't know how often steam sales happen, but every time I go online there is one going on (~50-90% off kind of sales).
Yeah. And it's weird because with steam sales I get the opposite feeling. It's because I'm so used to them probably.
I think it's the fact that the bundle used to be a rare happening and now there's a new one at the end of the month. I'll get used to it probably, I hope other people do to. It's a really great project.
Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
#18Is anyone else not tipping the Humble team anymore? Are you just splitting payment between devs and charities?
Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
#19I just bought this one but wasn't there another bundle just last week? I wonder if too many too soon will lead to bundle fatigue
I actually think their business model is perfect for this: right now they get the "honeymoon effect" -- they're new. So every humble bundle is one-time offer.
As time goes by (or maybe it's happening now), they will have to do more market research, find better games, maybe even change their offer so it doesn't expire. I'd personally like to see them directly competing with steam and desura (if the offer doesn't expire, they're directly competing). I think they need that kind of competition to push them.
In short, don't rest on your first success!
Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
#20Anyone else experiencing Humble fatigue? When this was a special once a year deal I supported it regardless of the contents of the bundle. Now I feel that there's a Humble Bundle once a week and I've stopped reading their email.