even if you give 100% to THQ, you're pretty much giving it all to charity, since they're not exactly business at the moment.
The Humble THQ Bundle
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#32Very disappointed this isn't about THQ making some of these games available for Linux, also "Requires Steam to Play". I still have half a mind to purchase it as the Company of Heroes games are excellent, but I really dislike buying games that I have to use wine to play.
It would be cool to have these games available for Linux, but I just can't see the extra humble bundle money and good will being worth the engineering effort required. Valve has done a lot to get L4D2 working on Linux, and has a ton of resources and a long term business agenda to move away from Windows.
I think the only way we'll see a lot of AAA games going to Linux is if someone releases hardware that is Linux based and it has a large install base comparable to other major consoles. Most AAA game developers see extremely reduced sales on PC vs console already, so Mac ports are rarely worth it, let alone Linux.
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#33Not 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.
Maybe they should have dropped "Humble" from the name and replaced it with "Save"
It's certainly a bundle.
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#34This 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…
Humble Bundle is investor-backed and for-profit, so I don't really find their "commercialization" surprising.
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#35Instead of complaining about the man and DRM, customize your purchase to give it all to charity. Have a nice day.
Exactly!
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
This seems more like helping THQ get back on their feet.
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.
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#37Interesting 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 before though, I guess. Can anybody confirm?
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#38This 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…
>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.
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#39Shit, they got me with the rick roll (short link end of video)
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#40Interesting 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…
They did that to work around a problem where people were paying $.01 just to get a steam key.
Adding a game to a steam account "validates it" and this can be abused in certain scenarios. For example, steam sometimes has events where you can enter contests, and people were creating hundreds of fake entries for almost no money.
Edit: just to be clear, for other bundles you can pay $.01 and get the DRM free games but not the steam keys (which require a payment >= $1). Here, since the games require steam, the minimum price is $1.