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Re: Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out

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Not that anyone really cares or needs my input, but I can verify that too.

Either of you install it yet?

I just installed i386 _Braid_ (which was the main reason I bought it). It plays without a glitch or problem so far, and seems smooth enough.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out

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Day 2 and they've broke $600k... That is pretty awesome. I'm wondering where most of the money is going? Are people dropping the cash more for charity, because they understand that indie life is tough, or both?

Re: Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out

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I just love how silky smooth their fulfillment is. If BCC downloadable were still under active development, I'd be stealing bits of it. (Hmm, personalized bookmarkable page with direct download links, keys, and settings... Hmm, waiting for Paypal hourglass. Hmm, "as long as we've got you here, please hit our sharing buttons" under the hourglass")

I have no idea what you just said.

Just go purchase the humble indie bundle #2, and you'll see.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out

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And because means are spectacularly unstable so just one or two feeling that way will show up.

The current statistics are: total revenue: $301,252.18 number of purchases: 43,819 average purchase: $6.87 average windows: $5.72 average mac: $7.72 average linux: $13.72 Based on their "total revenue by platform" chart, I estimate the per-platform revenues to be: windows: ~54% , or ~$162,676.18 mac: ~23% , or ~$69,288 linux: ~23% , or ~$69,288 An approximate Linux revenue of ~$69,288 and average purchase of $13.72 g…

Good argument. I buy it, largely because it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Linux users are actually more generous. I just often dislike data summaries. If you want to show me the data, show it directly.
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