I have to admit, while desperate by THQ, this isn't a dumb move. Notice how they give away three games with sequels out or coming out and Saints Row 3 which has a ton of dlc. It seems like they are betting the bank on the new titles that are coming out. I hope this works for them because I like the titles produced by this company.
The Humble THQ Bundle
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#42This 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…
I thought the point of humble bundles was supporting charities, not giving away games for cheap.
Why can't it be both?
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#43Interesting 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…
Some people were paying multiple times $0.01, using this as a vector to spam the steam key generation servers.
So they have asked (since few bundles) to pay more than $1 when you want to get te steam keys. And since this Bundle is steam-only ... The minimal amount to get the games is $1.
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#44Earlier 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.
But the Android ones also worked on Linux, OSX and Windows. This is just Windows.
Re: The Humble THQ Bundle
#45Interesting 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…
You have always had to pay at least a dollar to get Steam keys, no matter the bundle. I think it has something to do with Steam's requirements, but I don't know that.
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#46Earlier 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.
I don't care about cross-platform, but I feel abandoning DRM-free is really moving away from the original concept.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe they should have dropped "Humble" from the name and replaced it with "Save"
It's certainly a bundle.
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 Disappointing Bundle 2.
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#48Interesting 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…
You have always had to pay at least a dollar to get Steam keys, no matter the bundle. I think it has something to do with Steam's requirements, but I don't know that.
No, the first few bundles gave away keys for any price. They changed it during a bundle where this was a big problem with a contest that Steam was holding at the same time.
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#49It was never about principles, or being cross-platform, or even for charity for me. Personally, I just wanted cool games for a low price. And this particular Humble Bundle delivers.
Three of the four games are ones that I very nearly purchased in the past, so I'm thrilled. This is a great deal for me!
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