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Re: The Humble THQ Bundle

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Post by mcherm »

skeletonjelly wrote: post #81
mcherm wrote: post #18

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.

They dropped the EFF because that's what the developers voted on it would seem https://twitter.com/humble/status/146655575290286080

Interesting... I hadn't known that. That reduces my objection to dropping EFF.

But if it were me in charge, I'd list 3 charities. One would be the charity that, last time, had received the greatest portion of the contributions from people who had adjusted the contribution sliders rather than accepting the default value. One would be a new charity never before featured on Humble Bundle. The last would flex, depending on circumstances: it could be a charity favored by the Humble Bundle team, one chosen by the app developers, or perhaps the second-favorite from contributors who adjusted sliders.

Re: The Humble THQ Bundle

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Post by totallymike »

homosaur wrote: post #80

Why is THQ failing so hard? Is it simply because of how poorly the company was run for decades beginning with the Nintendo era where they foisted tons of licensed crap games on kids? I know I still kind of have negative associations with the THQ brand, even though I know for a fact that they've been releasing very good games for more than a decade now. Is it just a matter of spending too much money on games like Sain…

It's a shame if Saint's Row is losing them money. The Third one is actually pretty great. I thought it was a lot more fun than Grand Theft Auto 4.

Re: The Humble THQ Bundle

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Post by romnempire »

pdknsk wrote: post #75

With the bundle already at $1M, it could go up to $10M, which is the current THQ market capitalisation. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI So instead of purchasing some games, gamers could've purchased THQ, and released the games for free and without DRM.

what how god how do you think corporations work? do they have magic money trees?

we, in conglomerate, purchase THQ, give their games away for free and then what, fire all their developers, close all their studios and sell all the buildings, revelling in our destruction of the future of gaming so everyone can gave some games today for free?

there was much better discussion on this topic on reddit.

Re: The Humble THQ Bundle

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Post by [deleted] »

romnempire wrote: post #93
pdknsk wrote: post #75

With the bundle already at $1M, it could go up to $10M, which is the current THQ market capitalisation. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI So instead of purchasing some games, gamers could've purchased THQ, and released the games for free and without DRM.

what how god how do you think corporations work? do they have magic money trees? we, in conglomerate, purchase THQ, give their games away for free and then what, fire all their developers, close all their studios and sell all the buildings, revelling in our destruction of the future of gaming so everyone can gave some games today for free? there was much better discussion on this topic on reddit.

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Re: The Humble THQ Bundle

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Post by [deleted] »

romnempire wrote: post #93
pdknsk wrote: post #75

With the bundle already at $1M, it could go up to $10M, which is the current THQ market capitalisation. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI So instead of purchasing some games, gamers could've purchased THQ, and released the games for free and without DRM.

what how god how do you think corporations work? do they have magic money trees? we, in conglomerate, purchase THQ, give their games away for free and then what, fire all their developers, close all their studios and sell all the buildings, revelling in our destruction of the future of gaming so everyone can gave some games today for free? there was much better discussion on this topic on reddit.

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Re: The Humble THQ Bundle

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Post by lambda »

arrrg wrote: post #38
munchor wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Windows-only >Steam-only >not DRM-free Seriously, what is this... The fun was cross-platformness (GNU/Linux and Mac OS X support). This is just not typical "Humble Bundle". I wouldn't mind less humble bundles (a couple a year), but good and cross-platform and a load of them, instead of Windows & Steam-only like this.

Of course it’s a typical Humble Bundle. There were goddamn Android bundles in the past. No one complained. But now suddenly everyone. I do not get it. The point of Humble Bundles is to make a bunch of cool games available for however much money you want to pay. Sometimes those games are cross-plattform, sometimes not. That’s it.

It's not just this one that I mind. The "Humble Android Bundle", "Humble Ebook Bundle", and so on are also diluting the brand.

But this one goes against some of the basic tenets of the Humble Bundle series; namely, the DRM-free, cross-platform nature. One of the reasons I support them is that I support choice. I want to have choice in what platform I run. I want to have choice in what machines I run my games on. DRM and single-platform games mean that I don't have that choice.

All I'm saying is that in the past, I've bought Humble Bundles and never even played a single game, just because I supported the idea so much. Now they've violated some of their core principles; they are still "pay what you want" and allow supporting charities, but they are selling games that I am morally opposed to. I'm better off just giving my money to the charities directly.

Re: The Humble THQ Bundle

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Post by dkersten »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #88
dkersten wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I was referring to this part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0BSa75Cw_s 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 wit…

Ok, yeah, that bit was HARD

Re: The Humble THQ Bundle

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Post by benaiah »

kisielk wrote: post #74
RyanZAG wrote: post #37

Interesting note. If you change the custom value to under $1 you get the following message: "Warning! Please note that orders under $1.00 will ONLY receive the soundtracks and will NOT receive the games! " This seems to go against the spirit of "pay what you want"? Not that $1.00 is really different from $0.01, but I'm pretty sure that for indy bundles before you could go as low as you wanted? I didn't think to try b…

Also interesting to see that (at the time of this writing) the average is only $5.50 which is a lot lower than the averages I've seen for previous bundles.

That's probably because it's Windows-only. In the Humble Bundles, Windows users consistently give less than Mac users, who consistently give less than Linux users. Most bundles are cross-platform, so the average is higher.

It's only about a dollar, maybe two, lower than average anyway.

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