New Humble Weekly Sale - Arcen Games!

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Could be way worse. I figure I'll buy the "below minimum" bundle. I'm not a fan of this new scheme where they're inflating what was previously the beat the average price to a set limit of 5.80. The true average is less than 4 dollars. Hopefully this is more of a developer's choice rather than an automatic thing. I really think that if they're going to automatically set a price it should be lower because I think at it is right now they probably won't get nearly as many purchases. The Paradox bundle might not have been hindered, because those games are well known enough to drive the higher purchase sales, but this one doesn't have that benefit. Many people won't care enough about the higher tier games, so more people are going to end up getting just the lower tier ones, where if the price was cheaper they would be more likely to get the whole bundle.

'tis alright

I only lack the Nihon no Mura DLC so I skipped, and I gotta say I really like Arcen games.

A Valley Without Wind games are very interesting, but become too repetitive in no time.

AI War is their greatest game and is a very solid and wonderful RTS. The many DLCs add a lot more to the already hard to master main content, bringing a lot of moddability to gameplay (you choose which DLCs are active when starting a game).

Tidalis is a good and well made puzzle game with some nice art and story.

Shattered Haven is a very minimalistic 2D puzzle game where you have to survive some maps under cetain conditions (like using caltrops to kill zombies or bait them towards bear traps), not very good but not bad, interesting voiced narration.

Skyward Collapse is a great TBS where you have to maintain 2 warring civilizations alive while keeping them in conflict. You have to reach score levels for each of the 3 ages you go through and you have free reign how to do so. You lose when a civilization dies or when the score is below requirement.

Overall a strong bundle with some nice and unique games. Too bad IR had an Arclight bundle not too long ago...which I bought.

If you pay only 0.01 you still get Arcen CD keys, amarite? And Tidalis, A Valley Without Wind 1-2 Arcen CD keys Steam-redeemable.

Seems they're sticking with the indiegala type false "average". Calculate it at $3.40 currently still 5.80
all use of the word "average" was stripped from the site to cover their asses on it just like gala did

So there goes any theories that it was a one time thing to prevent paradox kahuna from spiking prices
this bundle feels more and more like indiegala and their support is comparable to steam now. At least based on the week its been since I brought that to their attention(politely) without even a "email received" pinged back

Ok I got the weirdest problem, again after steam being so weird the recent days anyway, lol.

I activated first 2 keys from $1 minimum (AI War + 4 DLCs and Tidalis and the other AI War). And I can't see them in my library now, nor click to play them. In store it says I own them, but when I click Play I get transferred to the Steam Community page, not to an install window.

Ok, WTF ?

EDIT: Ok it got fixed by itself. But buggy steam is buggy ....