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Not exactly an "independent" publisher, only available for Steam, only for Windows, no contributions to the EFF? But when you add in that there is no DRM-free version, it's just not "Humble Bundle" anymore.
It's interesting that THQ stock is +20% since the bundle went live, in addition to about +20% earlier today, before the bundle. It's climbing sharply now. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI
The reason for the stock climb is rumors of a buyout, not this bundle.
Be aware that the key for saints row does not work when you are in Germany. Luckily, the humble bundle support is good and will help you out if you have problems, at least they helped me very fast :) It would be even nicer though if they would mention this on the official page.
support, which kind?
http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/867...
>We are aware of the issue going on with Saints Row: The Third Steam keys for German customers who purchased the bundle prior to 23:00 CET on November 29th.
>Please email us at contact@humblebundle.com with your Transaction ID and the subject "Saints Row Steam Key", and we can get you a Steam key for the German version of Saint's Row: The Third.
This seems to be completely against the spirit of the Humble Bundles. They are normally creative games from independent publishers, available cross platform and DRM free. These are some generic mass-market games from a failing major publisher, available only on Windows, and delivered via Steam rather than DRM-free. The excessive numbers of "Humble X Bundles" that have been coming out recently have been kind of killin…
It's a cliche thing to say, but hey, you don't have to participate. If you truly support Humble Bundle and what they do, then you would support them in this endeavor as well -- you are giving them some tip as well (and charities if that's your thing). Does anyone really think that since they are doing this with THQ they are going to simply stop supporting the indie community? THQ made some bad decisions, and they are…
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A bundle of SOMETHING alright! I'm really disappointed. I know the site has been doing very well monetarily with their format but stuff like this discredits them to me. For most people I think Humble Bundle was about doing good while also building awareness of indie developers. I've tried so many games I would never have heard of let alone purchased because of the site. Hopefully their next release won't be Disappoin…
So you'd rather them sell NOTHING than THQ games? These games are stellar. Company of Heroes is one of the best tactical RTS games of all time. Red Faction Armageddon is very good. Metro 2033 is very good. Saints Row and Darksiders are very good. These are not crap mainstream games thrown together with a Humble Bundle tag, these are brilliant pieces of software. And anyway, you don't have to worry about this for long…
Not crossplatform, no EFF donation, not indie and DRM all at once? That's a large shift. I generally liked supporting humble bundles on principle. Seems hard to keep feeling good about that now.
As fare as I remember the 4th indie bundle didnt have donations for EFF, as the charity are generally voted for by the developers. also they have done none cross playform bundles before (with some of there android bundles.) why not take this for what it is, the chance to pick up some decent games for cheep, and supporting eather a charity or a struggling games company who make some good games.
And THQ does not need money support, they need to go through an internal crisis, fire a number of people and get back to good basics. What this bundles does is just providing another injection to the drug addict.
Warning about Metro 2033. It's actually a pretty good game with great atmosphere despite it's faults but there is a part quite near they end that is almost guaranteed to make you rage-quit even on easy skill settings. Edit: Requires Steam and Windows. I though the biggest point of the bundle was proving the market for DRM free cross platform games? They may as well have just made this a steam sale.
Warning about Metro 2033. It's actually a pretty good game with great atmosphere despite it's faults but there is a part quite near they end that is almost guaranteed to make you rage-quit even on easy skill settings. Huh? I played Metro from start to finish over the space of about a week during the summer of last year and its a fantastic game. While it was quite difficult at times, I didn't find it so difficult that…
At about 1:40 in.
YMMV of course, I'm certainly not the best FPS player but I found this significantly more frustrating than any other point in the game by a large margin mainly because I kept losing because of a dumb NPC.
When I was googling around I found a lot of people frustrated by this part. I did most of the game on hard but struggled with this part on easy.
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I don't mean to be mean or thoughtless, but why should a community originally formed to support DRM free cross platform indie games support a failing corporation (that needs a lot more help than a humble bundle sale could ever do for it) which isn't any of those things? Do they intend to be any of those things if they do get back on their feet? Aren't they publishers themselves? Why can't they just run a sale? It see…
> I didn't support the previous humble bundles as a marketing tactic, I supported them because of their goals. Couldn't you just give your money to the EFF, then ? My first reason for buying Humble Bundles is the very low price. The goal is the nice side effect.
If I was after low prices there'd be no reason for me to pay more than a dollar or two for a bundle. I pay what I pay because I want to support good art, good code and a good platform for that with good goals.
Unfortunately the games THQ offers are only available on Steam, but that's the way it shakes. However you look at it, they are still sharing a high-quality selection of games that you don't have to pay them ANYTHING for. You can put 100% of your payment toward charity and THQ still happily gives you the games.
I don't see how that's against the spirit of the bundles.