U.S. purchase - confirmed same subs.

The full list of countries for Encased is:
Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Antarctica, American Samoa, Austria, Australia, Aruba, Åland Islands, Barbados, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Saint Barthélemy, Bermuda, Bonaire/Sint Eustatius/Saba, Bahamas, Bouvet Island, Canada, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Switzerland, Cook Islands, Curaçao, Christmas Island, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Fiji, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Federated States of Micronesia, Faroe Islands, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Grenada, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Greece, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Guam, Guyana, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Isle of Man, British Indian Ocean Territory, Iceland, Italy, Jersey, Japan, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Montenegro, Saint Martin, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Montserrat, Malta, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Oman, French Polynesia, Poland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Sweden, Saint Helena/Ascension/Tristan da Cunha, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Slovakia, San Marino, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), French Southern Territories, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States of America, Holy See, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Mayotte

Indeed. 😔

...which are usually the best deals of the whole festival. ;-)

I appreciate your constructive response and your insight -- I didn't start buying from Fanatical until a couple years ago I think? I agree with your perspective too, thinking about it more it is interesting that devs go for bundling over a deep discount especially with what feels like more games are getting bundled that just came out maybe a couple months before.

Makes you wonder if there's some kind of negotiating or whatnot that goes on behind the scenes? Could also help for exposure (i.e. you buy a bundle and one game on it is frobm a dev you never heard of, but you play it and end up loving it and wanting more to the point of purchasing other things from them nonbundled), but more realistically you're probably right.

Your last paragraph kinda hits me personally but in a good way 😅 I've been trying to use backlog sites to organize what I definitely want to play vs what I "might" play down the road. Kinda puts things in perspective once you sit and look at it... especially when there's a section where you can input how much you paid.

I already am aware of all this, the point was that it isn't unreasonable to complain or find this as not as good of an offer from the pov of someone who owns certain titles in this bundle.

If they really wanted, they could offer pick 3, 5, 7 games for $3, $5, $7(which fanatical does sometimes and would've been a much better choice here too) if they really cared about people who might own many games in the bundle, and wanted it's customers to complete their collections, and not have to sell, trade keys after. Fanatical doesn't really care if you sell your keys after(I think at least, but I'm assuming their parterns wouldn't be happy knowing users buy keys to sell them afterwards), but humble is against this. Why would humble not like this then, as they know better than anyone they are the ones putting rebundled games in different bundles? So it's not like this problem couldn't be solved, they just don't want to. If they wanted to prevent abusers, then you limit purchases to one or two per card/account.

I'm more of the impression that what they actually want, is for you to buy the bundle, and then forget about 50% of the keys, so then a year or two later they can just deactivate the unused keys, and sell them to people again in a rebundle. That probably allows them to get better deals.

So when a user says I already own like half of it, so I'll skip not a good value, they aren't being unfair. It's a fair statement. It's a decent/good bundle, but the deal is at least 2x as worse for those who own 50%. Hence why people do bundle splits, otherwise that wouldn't be a thing either, and I don't know if humble or fanatical or any other seller likes that either.

PS: I also suggested they listed them for whatever they thought each game was worth. So if the bundle is $16 and they think each key for prey is $2, then somehow the rest of the games have to fit in the other $14. So they could price them accordingly, and if they run out because a game is just that popular, other people can still get the others for a good deal within the bundle dates as of course, the most wanted game was priced higher as it should be, and the least wanted games they probably have contracts that will pay them less. Cause yeah I mean we can say each game in this bundle is like a $1 but Prey is an AAA with more reviews than all other games in the bundle combined. So yeah, it wouldn't be fair to call prey a $1 game.

no bundles = no SG = no Nixxi

:D

Can try a browser extension like Honey that will test the discount codes for you and it might have something better than 5% off. If you can't find a code at all, maybe I can send you an extra 5% off code I have. Just let me know.