Do I want you to be mine?
So here's food for thought......
If people paid $21 for a 10-bundle Be Mine subscription and every subsequent Be Mine bundle has been $2 for the pre-order price anyway, then what did one save by buying the subscription? Certainly not freedom from headaches and aggravation, that's for sure.
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The original Be Mine Anniversary was $3.95 with no pre-order available so if every Be Mine after that is $2 pre-order, we have saved 95 cents.
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It wasn't; it revealed the games over a period of time, and the price went up with each revealed game.
I paid $1.50 after the first game (SkyBoats) was revealed.
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Doesn't that mean we have saved $2.95?
$21 vs. $23.95
It's 10 Be Mines + the BMA4 for $21, so I think you were just counting it as 9 BMs + BMA4 for 10 total.
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The description says a minimum of 10. I cannot find anything that says that BMA4 is included in addition to the 10. The BMA4 was one of the ten.
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Ah, but look at the bundle page again (https://groupees.com/bma4):
It says, "For $4 Minimum You Get..." and then it shows all the stuff that is a part of BMA4.
Then it says, "For $21 Minimum You ALSO Get" (emphasis mine), and there under that tier you have the annual subscription (="minimum of 10 Be Mine bundles") and the Jonny coin.
Paying $21 for BMA4 gets you the 10-BM subscription and the coin in addition to the BMA4 content, which you already got by paying at least $4.
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The Q&A indicates that the subscription includes every Be Mine after Feb 14 (which would include BMA4) and that the minimum Be Mines would be 10. That's just my interpretation.
Q: How many Be Mine bundles will be released this year?
A: There will be a minimum of 10 Be Mine Bundles (excluding 2018's BMA)
Q: Which period is covered by this subscription, does it include the latest Be Mine bundle recently released?
A: The subscription includes all Be Mine bundles that launch from today (14 Feb 2017) until Feb 14 2018. Does not include Be Mine #29 which was released last week.
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It was 1.50 though if you bought it right away, not 3.95 ;)
And if you would have skipped one BeMine (I already skipped one after hints), the preorder would have been even less of a saving...
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That doesn't seem to be correct. This comment seems to indicate that the bundle may have started off at $1.50 and then increased in price each time more games were revealed. $3.95 seems to have been the final price.
Even if what you said had been true though.... would it really be worth risking $21 to save such a comparatively small amount? Doesn't sound like a wise move to me. I barely trust Humble with a subscription model, let alone a company with a shoddy history. I don't know, I've never really been very high on forking over one's money based on a pledge or promise.
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That was the main reason I didn't go for the Be Mine subscription back then -- it didn't save any money anyway -- and boy am I glad I didn't :)
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I guess people got a coin out of it.. which are now nearly worthless.
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That coin isn't nearly worthless, it's $9 credit on Groupees. I got a crapload of music with a $6 coin about a year ago, something like 20 albums in the high tier of a music bundle, a guy's whole discography pretty much. I was pretty happy. I intend to use this one for something like that again, a high tier for something I want, whether it's music or something else that catches my eye. Maybe - hopefully - including games. People have also traded coins for various things. In any case, it's currency; it's up to you to figure out how to use it. It's far from worthless.
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$9 credit on Groupees.. which has to be spent all at once on one bundle, doesn't work on pre-orders, doesn't work on most game bundles anymore, and the few that it does work on are either non-game bundles or build a bundles with shitty games. I know it'll depend on the person but all of their non-game bundles have no value to me. They did have some value at one point for me when you could use them on VN bundles, but other than those they had no value. I'm sure you could trade the coins in the past but good luck finding anyone now that'll trade anything worthwhile for them.
Groupees own staff doesn't even describe coins as "currency". They're coupons at best.
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Yup, they're definitely worth less (not yet worthless) now.
I did happily buy Brigador with one of the high-value coins, and a music bundle with extra bonus for the top buyer (towards which the coin counted at the time) with another one, but that was a while ago.
Still sitting on two more though, and it's doubtful I'll ever get to use them, as fewer and fewer bundles even allow coins, and there aren't that many high-price, high-value bundles anymore anyway.
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I used my last few on a VN bundle. I traded some stuff for two coins too.. but that was back when their VN bundles were halfway decent and coins worked on them. Can't imagine what I'd spend them on now if I had any. I wouldn't depend on Groupees sticking around too much longer so I would hate to buy stuff that requires downloading from their server. If you do buy any of that stuff, I hope you're backing it up frequently.
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Agreed. I've been saying for a couple months now that it would be wise to download all the music before Groupees suddenly disappears one day..
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Well for someone like me who couldn't care less about music or comics/visual novels (often tantamount to softcore porn) it absolutely IS worthless.
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People have also traded coins for various things
The value of coins as tradables has plummeted significantly since they stopped being able to be used for gaming bundles.
Which means it's good for you, if you want to clean up on buying coins off people for non-game bundles, but it definitely doesn't match to the promises Groupees made about coins early on, which seems to be the actual point of reference in discussion here. If your aim is to trade or use the coins for the purposes of gaming, they certainly are nearly worthless now.
As far as other bundles, even if you're into them, Groupees makes them hard to keep track of, and the ones I've seen these past few years haven't included any of the higher profile artists they used to include in the past. It's hard imagining the coins haven't lowered in value there, as well, though perhaps my avoidance of Groupees due to their two year game drought has made me miss some of the better music bundles.
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You just made me remember that trading is a thing on groupees, I can simply try to trade my $8.9 coin for 2 or more of a lesser value and thus not "waste" the whole thing in this bundle.
Also, since you seem to know some stuff about Planar Conquest, any clue of how I might have obtained it if it wasn't from a bundle? I own it (but not WoM), and I activated it as a key, but I can't find from where it came.
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I can simply try to trade my $8.9 coin for 2 or more of a lesser value and thus not "waste" the whole thing in this bundle.
"2 or more"
Since Groupees officially announced that high value game bundles are no longer on the table for the future (and we haven't seen in years besides), all coins past a certain value end up being "one free bundle", so it's harder to trade for multiple coins than it used to be. Definitely worth the attempt, but don't be too surprised if the trade rate for higher value coins ends up being something like 20% their listed value. Perhaps you'll luck out with someone interested in music bundles, if they're actually still releasing good, coin-accepting bundles there.
any clue of how I might have obtained it if it wasn't from a bundle?
Are you sure you didn't get it from a G2A bundle? Think it was in a couple.
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Oh well, I have over a week untill the bundle ends so I'll try a bit and if I fail I'll just use it to buy this bundle.
And you're probably right, I did bought the first 2 G2A bundles, but they're not listed on itad so I thought it was the first time that they bundled this game. Thanks for the answer.
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ITAD skips over a lot of lower-profile bundle sites, including Groupees, so it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't include G2A bundles.
Salenauts used to be a good secondary option for cross-checking more obscure bundles, but I don't think they keep up to date with bundle notation at all anymore.
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Actually, scrap what I said, their trading system is kind of a mess if you want to offer a high value coin so I guess I'll just use it to get the bundle and be done with this. I've had that coin for like 2 years anyway so why do I even care honestly.
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Considering that we paid maybe $1 for any given coin [assuming we didn't trade for it], breaking even isn't usually too difficult. Still stings to waste potential funds.. but the way Groupees is going, it's probably best to cash out sooner rather than later.
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Last time I bought something was september of last year, and looking at my bundles I can see that I've bought less and less bundles each year. It definitely looks like they're on free fall as far as quality AND quantity is concerned so cashing out my last usefull (I have two of those Trump joke ones) coin seems like a good idea.
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The 6th, since the Anniversary is included in the subscription.
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CorvidBehaviourCanada15:40
http://store.steampowered.com/app/585430/Flatspace_IIk/
inball FanUnited Kingdom15:56
^ It looks like that is what the star trek style clue is.
Looks like a solid guess to me
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All of the games in this bundle look like junk. :(
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There aren't any games in this bundle yet. Those listed above are only guesses.
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My first purchase at Groupees. I hope the tennis game is true...
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Did anyone get the preorder email? Someone ordered for me, and haven't received one yet, kinda worried as normally you get it before it goes live.
Nvm got it.
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I only had one shot.... so I decided to lose myself....
And it paid off. Pretty OK bundle for $2.
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Very happy too about this bundle, especially the tennis game !
Thank you very much for your guesses and the info about pre-order ! :D
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Lame bundle IMO. Already have Mini Ghost and only activated Smoots World Cup Tennis, Worlds of Magic and Planar Conquest. The other 3 games are not my cup of tea.
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Not bad.
Don't forget to get the free dlc for Worlds of Magic.
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Mini Ghost, Bucket Detective and MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate makes it pretty worthwhile for me, even the remaining games could be interesting (though I think I'll give the strategy ones away, I have a feeling I have similar, but better games already, and time is short)
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Not a bad pre-order Groupees bundle this time around and I was missing 4 games. ^^
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This is actually a pretty good bundle from Groupees.
Not quite enough to make up for the fact that it's been 12+ months and they've only delivered 6 out of 10 Be Mine bundles... But still, pretty good. Zero repeats, and some decent-looking games.
EDIT: is it correct that there's no way to give away Worlds of Magic / Planar Conquest accurately on SG? I can set the giveaway to Worlds of Magic but not to Worlds of Magic Techland.
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The correct game to giveaway is just Worlds of Magic, not sure what you mean with techland.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/265970/
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Note: Worlds of Magic activates as Worlds of Magic Techland which includes Planar Conquest
This is what I was talking about.
I will set the giveaway to Worlds of Magic and just mention Planar Conquest in the description, I guess.
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Oh yeah it activates 2 seperate games Worlds of Magic and Planar Conquest (it's not some DLC) through 1 key, if only they gave 1 key for both then yeah we could have given away both.
Maybe support could add it, or you "lose" some on it, but Worlds of Magic atleast is the correct one.
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I will probably wait a bit before giving it away. I don't really care about CV (I don't have any shortage of keys to give away), I was just making sure I wasn't missing anything. I like accuracy. :)
Thanks for confirming!
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This bundle is really very good. I'm happy i pre-ordered it :)
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DAMN YOU IGN!!!!!1!111!1!1!
Wait...what? Oh. Wrong thread. Sorry!
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Haha, ouch. Worst Be Mine for me so far. I'm only keeping MMM and Mini Ghost, and that's if I can get a refund for Mini Ghost since I got it during the last sale. Finally broke down since I thought it being bundled by this point was unlikely. =P The other games aren't my thing. Still, I bet I can trade them for some nice things, and MMM alone would've cost more than the preorder price, so I don't regret getting it!
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Better than the last Be Mine imo. At least the quality isn't worse..
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I really love Tennis games. (I prefer Virtua Tennis) And this one looks like Wii Tennis.
I would buy it in the last Sale on Steam, because it never bundled before. Good that I miss the purchase.
The controls and hit feedback are not good and this is not a good Game. :(
I really want a good new Tennis on Steam.
Smoots World Cup Tennis is a disappointment. :(
(With awesome characters and worlds)
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Have you seen this? http://store.steampowered.com/app/779430/Full_Ace_Tennis_Simulator/
I haven't played it but it looks good from the store page.
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Yeah it's on my wishlist.
Big Ben Interactive Release this year an other game like Virtua Tennis.
I hope both are good ones.
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This bundle looks decent, I want Mini Ghost, and I have a coin. The thing is that it is worth almost $9, should I just use it now or keep it and probably never use it? Good thing I have some time to think about it.
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Note: Worlds of Magic activates as Worlds of Magic Techland which includes Planar Conquest.
Since there is no store sub matching Worlds of Magic Techland, you won't be able to create giveaways for this exact item. You can create giveaways for any of its components though, Worlds of Magic or Planar Conquest, with Worlds of Magic giving slightly more CV.
This seems to actually just be the standard Worlds of Magic package, as WoM comes with Planar Conquest by default. Planar Conquest is an updated version of WoM, which was added to WoM upon PC's release as an apology for the first release of the game being so poorly considered. Unfortunately, PoC isn't much better considered itself.. :/
In short, it's inaccurate to list Worlds of Magic and Planar Conquest as separate games within the bundle, as PC has always been included with WoM since PC's release. WoM's $25 retail appears to effectively boil down to $5 WoM+ $20 PC, so if PC ever does become separated from WoM, WoM's retail will likely drop significantly. However, it's been a long while with no indication of that ever happening.
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I agree that it is inaccurate to list both in the chart, even more so considering it's one key only. I listed both since I was afraid that people will mention that they don't see Planar Conquest in the chart xD.
To be correct, I would have to link to this sub (and then people might consider that the link is broken since there's no corresponding store page for it). The sub you mentioned has the same content, but it's not the exact sub delivered by Groupees. It has the advantage of a valid store link though, so I should maybe use that?
Linking to Worlds of Magic store page instead of the sub is in my opinion not correct, but I left it like this, changing the title to include Planar Conquest.
I hope this setup is more likeable for you.
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I hope this setup is more likeable for you.
Yep, that's lovely- feels a lot more accurate and precise. :)
I guess the rest of your considerations were based around RaChart? I always forget that's a thing. :P
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Hehe yeah, I like them colorful :)
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Oh, that does look nice. I only saw the early RaChart screenshots, and they were.. well, a lot less appealing.
Thank you for your continued dedication on our behalf! ^.^
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Groupees - Be Mine #33
6 gamesup to 8 games (6 games + 2 bonuses probably) + 1 music album$2 preorder
View this bundle on: ITAD - Barter.vg - Lestrades
Groupees - Be Mine Subscriptions
If you’ve purchased the Be Mine subscription, the bundle will be automatically added to your account after it will be released.
This bundle is the 6th of the series.
Tier 1 - $1
Tier 2 - $4
Worlds of Magic will also activate:
Note: Worlds of Magic activates as Worlds of Magic Techland which includes Planar Conquest.
Since there is no store sub matching Worlds of Magic Techland, you won't be able to create giveaways for this exact item. You can create giveaways for any of its components though, Worlds of Magic or Planar Conquest, with Worlds of Magic giving slightly more CV.
Don't forget to activate the free DLCs for Worlds of Magic: Worlds of Magic - Titans Pack DLC and Worlds of Magic - Sorcerer Lords Pack DLC.
Retail:
CV:
Chart created with Lex's SG Chart Maker
hints:❓ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Background image 3
Guesses
Smoots World Cup Tennis = orange ball
Mini Ghost = the little white gal upper right
Madness Cubed or MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate = M³
Flatspace IIk = the Star Trek-like symbol
Are you interested in knowing other ongoing bundles? Feel free to check out the new master thread!
Wondering what games you already own from this bundle? There's an extension/UserScript for that! It's called the RaChart™ Enhancer!
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