Have Groupees became garbage bundle site ?

I think Doujin 3 is pretty good, not really paying attention to the others.

Haven't bought a good bundle there for months :/

Nope. In fact I like having the option to reserve. Its not like you have to reserve the bundle to get it, so I don't know why people dislike it so much. You can, I don't know, wait to see if you like what's there when it goes live.

Now as far as the contents go, it's gonna be hit or miss, but then again, so is most every other bundle from any other site.

I haven't seen any bad quality bundles. Also if the bundles sell I don't think our individual opinions matter much.

I'm with you, Groupees used to be one of my favourite bundle sites and ever since they started this reserve thing, I'm yet to find something I've really liked. Even their last Be Mine (which are usually really good) was rather underwhelming.

No, there is only one ultimate garbage pit - Indie Gala. Groupees never was the best, but it was good and still good, it has different bundles and almost everyone of them has one reaaly interesting game, actually even the reserve option is pretty nice, it's always better to buy 5 average games (where one could always be really cool) for 1,5 than 5 absolutly shitty abominations from IG for 1,99. I'm just curious why trading coins aren't still there.

Honestly, I think only Humble Bundle and Bundlestars get it right with bundles these days. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they had a sort of 'monopoly' over selling bundles.

Realms of the Haunting and Soulbringer make it worth it. Speaking for Shiny Loot 9.

I own numerous copies of each so I didn't get it but it's certainly good for $1 if you ask me.

Eh, I think every bundle site is hit or miss. Shinyloots are 99% of the time always garbage, but I tend to come across at least 1 game in the major bundles they do (Be Mine and sometimes the themed ones) worth the price of entry and reserving a bundle for $1 is typically a very low risk gamble. Worst case scenario I try to get money back from games that have cards or trade/sell/GA the crap I dont want.

Same goes for Bundle Stars and IG. Humble is the same way, but Id say they usually have the most quality simply b/c they're the best known. IG's monthly bundles tend to be really good value espc when they have Happy Hours.

They're all hit or miss. But I'd reckon I dislike IndieRoyale the most, but even there they're hit and miss. The Mixer 11 has Derrick The Deathfin which is a wonderful game.

From the latest bundles from the latest months, the only good was the Doujin 3.

Some of the bundles are decent, but nothing extraordinary ... the bundle that was worth it on that site was the one that had Half Minute Hero, but that was some time ago.

There's always good and there's always bad. Don't complain, just because some of these aren't your cup of tea, doesn't mean others don't appreciate it.

Most of the pre-orders seem disappointing for now :/

yes groupees is turning more shit as time passes by ...

didnt buyed a bundle there for months .. pre reserved one last week and was the worst thing i made .. i dont even bother to check their bundles anymore

I would say Indiegala has the generally lowest quality(rather expensive). Groupees may be hit or miss but can have some nice stuff. Bundlestars are nice if a bit costly compared to most. HB generally does it best.

Because 1-2$ for a few games is such a high price. I've been quite happy with pre-orders so far. Not the happiest person in the world, of course, but still happy with Groupees.

Well only one I liked a lot was the build a be mine bundle, which had 100% orange juice and 99 spirits. Other than that I always saw groupees as a locale for some pretty meh games.

but pretty much all bundle sites are running out of good games that would be allowed to be bundled. I wouldn't mind though if they put a poll for which bundle should be rebundled, I missed a lot of good ones

It's cold at my house today, even got some snow. It was cold yesterday and the day before too, by your logic could this mean that an ice age has begun?

If any bundle site has a few bundles you don't like it does not necessarily mean they are now a garbage site. Life is never so black and white, and as the Greatful Dead sang "Every silver lining has a touch of grey." :)

Groupees has some of the best bundles I've ever purchased, and consistently has better games for less money than IndieRoyale, IndieGala, or Humble Bundle. So no, I would say not.

Not really.

Due to the nature of bundle sites, they will ALWAYS hit dry spells for new games to bundle. Not all developers are willing, after all. There are only so many games you can land a bundle deal for until you pretty much touch on everything that hasn't already been bundled (either on-site or in another bundle site). Indie games are often made into bundle fodder as a result, and unpopular or less polished games always tend to be far more willing. Consider that the bundle makers won't always have time to sit down and play all the games themselves to ensure absolute quality, and even then you always get differences in opinion.

You get what you pay for, and in bundle sites cases, sometimes you get a LOT more than what you pay for.
In the end, we're just too used to getting absurdly awesome deals, so that when a normal deal appears, some of us get into a bit of a flap about it.

About Indie Royale: That's another mixed site, also rather mysterious though if you're able to find something you like and act on it quick, it can be a good deal. Like the recent mystery bundle: Got 2-3 games I liked for 99 cents.

Groupees is probably the best or second-best bundle at the moment -- they offer bundles more often than HiB, and with (surprisingly) often fewer repeats. I have purchased every reserve they offered, and despite buying many bundles in the past I have never been disappointed.

Also, Groupees has a much nicer to use site than any of the others -- it's easy to pull up old bundles or old games. HiB's page with all your old bundles is good, but very slow to load if you have a lot. The others are all terrible by comparison (although Indie Royale is the absolute worst by far, since it clogs up the page with all the bundles you didn't buy, and uses images so you can't even use text searches to leap to a specific old bundle.)

Indie Royale also has the worst support. Other bundles will replace keys if you get one that was already used; Indie Royale won't, they tell you to contact the developer directly. And on top of that, if you buy a game with a Desura key from Indie Royale, and a Steam key is later added for that game, they will specifically disable the ability to get a Steam key from the Desura page, forcing you to get it from the IndieRoyale page instead. (This can be worked around, but it's still bullshit, especially since it's such a pain to find a specific old bundle you bought -- it feels like they deliberately make it as hard as possible to dig up the Steam keys that were added later.)