Better be a regular one and not another Android bundle.
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wish i never knew that this was inc lol. Now i keep checking there website and here hoping that it has launched already! Would have been better off not knowing until it was launched because now the anticipation sucks and its time for the waiting game!
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Do like me, follow @humble on twitter, send updates to your cell/mobile. You'll never miss the launch times ever again ;)
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The Android's were bad because you had some major limitations by having games that are on Android and PC.
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Check out their twitter. They are doing something with the Android app. Last time the app got updated, the HIB for Android 2 followed within hours.
Then, a guy tweeted them "Saw the @humble icon in the twitter feed, my heart skipped a beat and then i realized it was just about a bug fix :(", and they answered "stay tuned ;)".
So, the chances are that the new Humble Bundle will launch today.
EDIT: Wow, this was fast. It's live!
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Yeah, what a ripoff, right? Come on, it was 1$ and people kinda took advantage of that, didn't they? Granted, I don't find this bundle that appealing, but for that kind of money it still is a good deal for a good cause and you do get the games, even if you pay the bare minimum.
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You DO get the main package. So you whine that you don't get the whole damn thing for the minimum? Nice one.
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Because it's basically a giant middle finger to anyone who has already purchased earlier bundles that came with Samorost 2 and Machinarium. In that case you're paying $5 for one fairly short game, which isn't much of a deal anymore. Is it so much to ask the the Humble Bundles include, I don't know, new games so people don't have to pay for something they've already paid for?
Humble Bundle used to be "pay what you want," then it became "pay what you want, unless you want steam keys," and now it's "pay what you want, unless you want steam keys and this/these extra game(s)." You can go on all you want about other people acting entitled over cheap games, but you're ignoring the fact that the humble bundles are continuously becoming more and more oblivious to what they set out to do in the first place. The great thing about humble bundles was that even if you only had a dollar to spare, you could still spare that dollar get some great games for a cheap price, and you'd probably discover something you didn't even know about in the process. By including games that have already been bundled before and forcing you to pay a minimum to get another new game, you're saying to those people , "Fuck you." Why not make Somorost 2 and Machinarium the beat the average games? Because they know damn well that those two are just fillers that they've used again and again and people will pay more for a new game.
Long story short, it's no longer about providing people who can't spare that much money with some quality games, it's about selling games a that lot of people have already bought with a few new additions for as much as possible while still maintaining a "pay what you want" model so people can't complain just because you can still pay one cent. Which I think I'll do this time.
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Me too. I could understand maybe offering a previous bundle again so that people who missed out on it the first time could get the games, but throwing them randomly in other bundles to pad out space is really lame.
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$5 isn't the minimum for which you get Botanicula, it's the minimum to get Steam keys and you could always go and buy Botanicula for $9.99 from GOG, which would also go to the devs. So even if you paid the minimum and only wanted Botanicula it would still be alot cheaper than buying it from anywhere else at the moment.
And was it ever about providing people who can't spare much with games, I always thought of it as for a good cause as much as that.
That being said, I do agree, that putting games in, that already were in previous bundles is a tad off, which wouldn't be so bad if they gave you separate Steam keys for the games, which I don't think they do, so one could gift them to let's say friends.
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Actually, I'm not whining at all, I'm quite happy with the bundle. It's $5 for a game that was released today that had a preorder price of $10, plus two more games and the soundtracks. IMO, it's a great deal.
I just wanted to point out that you don't get all the games if you pay the bare minimum.
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Then I do apologize :) and I agree with you, even if I might skip the deal myself.
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The 5$ minimum for steam keys is a total rip off. And since I own already machinarium & Samorost it's not worth it.... (2 bad I found out after I paid for the bundle, otherwise I wouldnt have done that.)
Also: Pay more than the average of $8.72 to unlock Kooky and Windosill! ---> That's pretty high... Guess they are the victim of their own success cuz YES, alot of people will back off seeing this BTA price!
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It might seem a rip off to you, but you are paying $5 for a Steam key for a game that just went on sale for ~$10 plus getting two other games. Plus you could only pay the minimum which is what, $1?, and you still get a game that is on sale at gog.com for $9.99. So please do elaborate how this constitutes as a rip off?
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It's not, just because you own two of the games doesn't make it a rip off. If the only reason to buy that game is to support charity, then I see no reason for your tantrum. Buy it,the money goes to charity and gift it to someone who hasn't got the game, friend or stranger - everybody wins.
I repeat, the fact that you don't think paying 1/10th of the normal price for one new game and two older games doesn't make it a rip off. They blew it because they didn't give something that you thought was worth your money? Come on, it's worth more than what you pay and it is for a good cause. If you don't like the games or the cause, fine, but don't say it's a rip off.
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I don't understand why this would be a "ripoff". In your situation, they're offering a new game at half price. That's called a good deal, not a rip off. And you get 2 gifts of games you like to give away.
They really don't have any obligation whatsoever to offer a bunch of new famous indie games. Especially since the developers of those games probably know how high in demand "indie" games are these days. Letting others offer their game packaged with others in a pay-what-you-want format would be costing them money in the end and therefore there really isn't a good reason for, lets say for example, the developers of Grimrock to let their game be put into a bundle.
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You are right. It's not a ripoff. But more like unfair if you own already 2 games from previous bundles like me. If all the games are new for you it's a good deal for 5$ (Most people are only interested in the steam keys). I would also like to point out (apart from the charity), they WILL make alot of money out of this release on Humble Bundle. Just because Hib his extremely popular. That's why I say it's a very big 1 game sale. You have to be realistic, and realise HiB is way past the "charity" and "pay-what-you-want" status. And that's why I'm a bit frustrated, cuz maybe their concept is already "dying"
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But now you're just blaming the wrong people. It's because people keep buying the bundles at such a low price that it's costing the humblebundle people and the developers. With the old pay-what-you-want system, even with the 1$ minimum, people would just buy a bunch of copies at minimum and trade them away/sell them. This makes the humble bundle unappealing to most developers as they wouldn't want their brand new game to be mass distributed at a low price with minimum profits.
Because the system makes bundles unappealing to developers, humblebundle has less of a selection of games to include in their bundles. This is especially true considering how many competitors they have now. So they become forced to offer games that they've already offered before because the developers of those games most likely do not make much profit off regular sales any more anyways since the games are old.
So in order to start making their bundles more appealing to developers now, they need to start enforcing the same rules as their competitors to keep up. More rules that force more profit = more attractive to developers = more new and better games in bundles = more profit. If people had just pay a decent price to start with, we might still have the old system but right now, it's become a necessity for new rules to be implemented. Of course this 5$ rule is just temporary for this bundle only but I don't see HIB getting as good games as other bundles until they start using the same rules.
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