Is Humble Bundle slowly dropping the ball ?

More often than not I just don't care about the BTA tier. The last bundle I beat the average was the Frogware one with Sherlock Holmes. I often find the $1 tier games more interesting than those from the further tiers :D BTW Mobile Bundle? Who cares...
The only bad practice is setting up an additional high tier for one extra game to artificially boost the average.

maybe they are running out of devs that will allow their games to be sold so cheap :P

Hmm, their main bundle is pretty good still. Nothing wrong with HB12. The "spin-offs" have always been of dubious quality.

humble, stahp

considering they are a charity... no. so f u.

That's hardly dropping the ball. It's Pay What You Want for the bottom tier. There is nothing wrong with having higher tiers, and people expecting those higher tiers to still be super-low is gross entitlement. You can currently get every game in the Humble Indie Bundle for less than the regular cost of one of the bottom tier games.

HB12 is so lame to me.
I feel like the best ones nowadays are the HB weekly's usually.

Indie Bundles are actually very competitive now. Before it was just Humble Bundle every once in awhile, Indie Gala every once in awhile, and Indie Royale every once in awhile.

Now HB has 2 or 3 steam bundles a week, IG has 2 or 3 a week, and there's all these other sites with bundles too.

It's weird to say that there are just too many fucking bundles now.

Sometimes they cant find enough good games for a bundle but still I thought Indie Bundle 12 would have better bonuses, but 2 of the games already were bundled. Still the initial ones were good enough for me.

People been saying it for well over a year now, plenty of bundles now, doesn't matter, I still think they get some good games, the EA one and Deep Silver one wasn't to long ago guys. The last main one looked pretty alright also...

The main Humble Indie Bundles are always the best, and the bonus games have historically been repeats. At least now they're not games from the previous HIB.

I think they're just doing too much. "Big" bundle every 2 weeks, weekly bundle, flash bundle, books bundle, mobile bundle and the store. That makes it really hard for them to put interesting bundles every time. Expanding the site so much wasn't the best idea in my opinion.

But I still think that they're the best. Every Indie Bundle was worth the money and most of games included were really great. I see how people get mad at BTA and solid-tiers, but it's a fair for me.

I think people should stop looking at how it was and look how it is now. And it's still great.

HiB 12 was actually one of the first times I paid BTA in a long time. Actually gave em the $10 because I wanted Prison Architect as well :)

Soda Drinker Pro's on Android? INSTA-BUY! lol

Meh HB bundles are ovepriced. I pay 1$ sometimes and if i'm interested in a game from higher tier i trade for it on ST.

Mobile games being crap is nothing new and it was foolish to expect that much.
Well the main thing can have a nice mix, though the flash ones vary, the weekly are a decent mix. Thing is as time passes people get more and more of the interesting games leaving only spares and unwanted in future ones.

Not a single good bundle since Indie 8.

I find the bundles have always been hit and miss - really depends on how interested I am in the games that are in it at the time they're around.
Current HIB is meh to me, although I might get the 1st tier because Gunpoint & Steamworld Dig have good word of mouth.
Indie 11 was better because at the time it came around I had a strong appetite for platformers. If the same was launched now, I'd probably skip it though.

4, 5, 8 & 9 were probably the best, because they had that "something for everyone" grab-bag thing going on. (I missed out on 5 though)

Soda Drinker Pro.... wtf is that. Probably some guy that wants a slice out of the "so bad its good" trend...

And Humble bundle is still the best imo. Most of their games are quality games... unlike many other bundle sites who pretty much sell you 90% crap. And even a fixed $8 tier would make it a very good deal and much cheaper than a steam sale for example, they also have a option that allows you to not go for all games but go for a lower tier.. which still includes good games! Humble bundle STILL offers the best 1 dollar tier bundles.

The bonus for HiB3 was HiB2... so, it was a repeat already, back in the beginning of HB... Nothing new...

Just use BundleStars or something if it's upsetting you so much.

I remember when the bundles were special on occasion things. :( those times are behind us now.

Maybe people spend to much time hoarding games instead of playing? I will be glad if the bundle fever stops a bit...
They keep doing their job of making games more accesible, games than usually are worth of being played (I just don't care about mobile). What's the matter if there is a few repeats and they try to raise the BTA, it doesn't hurt the devs, the charities or the gaming community. If you think it's worth it of a purchase, then where is the big deal on open your wallet a bit more?
Meanwhile, there is tons of sites with bundles full of crap (never bought a bundle outside HB, except 3-4 on BundleStars and 1 on IndieGala). And I don't hear people constantly ranting against them. HB owes you nothing...

People easily get used to good things and demand more, right? But I think HB is still a very good deal, we just compare bundles with bundles now, not bundles with stores.
And there's nothing wrong with repeats. Since HB keeps getting more and more popular ("mainstream", dare I say) there are still people who don't have, I don't know, Fez or Bastion or other bundle classics and may be happy to get them.

Color Zen is great. Sorcery is f*cking fantastic (albeit short). Kingdom Rush Frontiers is great. Horn is great. Swordigo is actually quite fun if you have a pad. The Tiny Bang Story I haven't tried yet due to weird resolution issues, but the game is considered pretty good on PC at least. Heroes of Loot is pretty good for what it is. Alpha Wave seems interesting but I haven't tried it yet.

You're judging a bundle from ONE BONUS game. I really don't feel sorry for you. I think HB has never been as good as it is at the moment. Sure, "the magic" isn't there anymore, but the games are according to me way better. Also, a way to listen to all your purchased soundtracks while reading cheap ebooks/comics on the go is freaking awesome.