Starting a game bundle site like humble?

You have to form an actual company and all that fun stuff.

Bundlestars - Focus Multimedia Ltd.
Humble Bundle - Humble Bundle, Inc.
Indie Gala - Indiegala SRL

This will blow your mind but I have to say it:

money.

There's probably contracts and legal stuff behind these sites. They're not just wordpress blogs turned into for-profit companies.

so its pretty easy i guess, just need some money and legal stuff and luck from devs

maybe if you want it so hard...

It's not that simple. it's not just 'Make a site, contact developers and start selling'. You need to have a company and money. Besides, if your bundles aren't that popular, the chance is little developers are going to agree to put their game in them. And the money you earn is not only for you, but you have to pay the developers also. So, unless you're planning to start a company and have a lot of money, put the crazy idea of making a bundle-selling site out of your head.

Right now the whole bundle market seems to be rather bloated, so this might not be the best time to start yet another bundle site... unless of course you aim for those games which have been bundeled to death

1. Form company. 2. Make website. 3. Write up all legal shit, make it all nice and formal. 4. contact high class publishers and present them with a well put together plan and procedure of how you'll market it, what you need from them and how much they'd get. 5. launch it.

If you plan on including shit games, don't bother. If you plan on not including steam keys or at least GOG keys - don't bother. Hint: make it pay what you want and charity option is mandatory.

If you can code, you wont need much, just anticipate what kind of volume you'd get and prepare to drop a few k on servers.

I'd make a bethesda bundle with doom, quake, fallout steam keys. That would sell like fucking toilet paper.... if bethesda would go for it. Once the 1st bethesda bundle is done, publishers will be seeking you out.

It's actually far more complicated than a lot of people realize if you want to do things properly. Forming the company and getting proper legal documents made up is a trial alone. And that's the easiest part. Convincing developers to contribute quality titles to a complete unknown is an extreme uphill battle. Especially now with the bundle market overcrowded and multiple bundles struggling to get decent sales. The ones that are doing semi-decently (apart from Humble which is always the anomaly that will likely never be repeated) are usually lowering their prices constantly, which is creating quality issues and other long term problems that they don't realize yet. Forming a new one wouldn't even be worth close to the headache you'd have to go through.

For some reason people stupidly run after the market in attempt to get some market share.
Candy Crush Saga - Shitton of bejeweled games from other companies.
DayZ mod - Shitton of zombie survival games.
Flappy Bird - Shitton of copies.
Age of Empires - Shitton of lookalikes(Back then).

And none of them succeeds in taking a large enough market portion.
If you want to try your luck, be my guest but I have my doubts.
You want people buying your bundle? Make sure the games are good and you give charity a big portion otherwise few will buy it.
Bigger devs will not put their games in your bundles for 10% of the sales. Smaller dev games are usually not worth it in my opinion(The ones with the 90% negative reviews).

Nope, not yet.. Try here.

oh god, no! there are enough bundles out there _

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