I think there should be a Fanatical Anonymous category on the board actually because it sometimes feels like some among us need help.
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Tbh i don't understand what you mean, it's about fanatical mystery bundles ?
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Since Germany is banned from buying Mystery Bundles, I can't spam my loot in Lillys thread anymore. Stupid laws (sometimes)!
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let them gamblers gamble or they will feel the withdrawal
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I think some people have huge problems gamblin with Fanatical. Like, I get you might want to try your luck once, get the price that looks nice or just getting a bunch of cheap keys for a train. But there's some people who really need help. Specially in a community that has, in my opinion, a tendency to attract people who already have spending problems.
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According to Fanatical, they are absolutely not exploiting gambling addiction because... the price of the bundles is constant...?
So basically, according to them since you can't spend 2000 euros on a bundle, it's all good.
They are overlooking the fact that you can buy 2000 euros worth of "mystery" but hey it's not gambling.
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Has anyone ever won anything decent in a mystery bundle?
I thought they were made of leftover keys from the previous months bundles, so nothing all that interesting, and better to just buy a normal bundle 99% of the time.
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The games in there aren't that bad in my opinion. But it's probably better to buy games you are interested in directly than to hope for an interesting title from the mystery keys.
For collectors these packs are interesting I think, since you can get some cheap +1s. Though these packs got more expensive lately, and there is no OMEN10 code anymore. For hardcore collectors who have thousands of games it's probably not so interesting, since they will get a lot of dupes from these packs. You could still make some giveaways with the leftovers though. Generally, if you want to do some giveaways, mystery bundles can provide you some non-trash stuff for it.
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At 0.75 per key they are not horrible value. If I get 10 games I don't own and one or two non-bundled games occasionally to giveaway it is not that bad...
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I have only bought a mystery bundle once (a couple years ago) and I got a key for Farm Together, which I had never heard of before.
After having the key laying about for a few years I decided to give it a try, since my wife likes cozy games.
We have played over 600 hours of playtime in it haha and had a total blast :)
I consider myself pretty lucky for that discovery :)
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Nice!
Even if the game doesnt cost much, i think about the many hours of enjoyment it gives me,
Best trade off for me in that way is with Terraria. Heard good things about it, and bought it as part of a 4-pacl, so only cost me $3.75 and i traded away the other 2 and gave away one copy to my brother, but he prefers FPS... But for myself, i've racked up over 2,000 hours, and enjoyed playing it with random people from all over the world!
So i still love indies, and Fanatical bundles. But mystery bundles seem like a waste of money for the most part. But sometimes i guess it's fun to just throw away $5 and see what you get. Gambling is addictive because it's fun! I just try to keep it under $20/month at most, to keep out of trouble.
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I've been finding the lists here good for prevention of buying those bundles. I use this site for my 'gambling'.
I got enough blind boxes with the D&D miniatures game. So dangerous.
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hello and sorry for wrong Category (i know that's something usual, here). this is also, i think, about us. and it's about Mystery Something Gold.
Mystery Something Gold to the lucky lucky winner is part of the culture. British culture. would you please consider it next time you feel the urgency of flooding Lilly's inbox? not saying you have to always do it, but at least take some rest from one bundle and the other.
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