I have been a customer of HIB since quite recently (since I can finally use paypal , hurray) to buy the games and I must say its pretty good deals, I mean you can buy a bunch of quality games and you can also do good , no problem with that.
However some changes could have been observed since a time: firstly they took away the possibility to really pay what you want (after the chaos with the steam winter coal even) and they put it to min 1 dollar. Which is still okay, no complaint about that.
The initially drm free games went more and more into steam only which was also okay, as well as offering separate keys for each of the games you get. Even though some people were trying to abuse it, their numbers werent that critical i think. And now they decided to go back into one single key again, at the very best you get two separate keys for the two part of the bundle if you BTA. This one is not really okay for two reasons:

  1. It means that if you have even at least one of the games of the bundles, that one will be simply lost. And unlike what lot of people did, I never abused of the system to sell those games, the only thing I "dared" to do is to give it away for some of my friends who cannot buy with CC and I dont think gifting is such a huge problem.
  2. They are basically treating users as "criminal", they are basically saying the following message with that: we dont trust you enough to give you separate keys so you will get all of them stocked in one and if you have any of those then too bad.
    I dont support (and I deeply despise) people who are trying to make off the Humble Bundle at the damage of charities but this is really a bad message to all the people who have been buying packs on the standard and weekly sales.
    Im not saying I will never ever buy from them again, HOWEVER it might make me think twice
    I mean it wont stop abuse: ppl who want it to sell so badly will still do it, one key or not. However on the other hand it hurts legit customers who could give it away to friends or even on giveaway sites such as this one . Besides anyone with a right mind will know that people selling off HB bundles are to avoid (for obvious reasons and because they tend to try ripping off people quite badly)
    .So to sum, up shortly: Humble Bundle is getting less and less about indie games (which is not such a huge problem as they still let indie devs showcasing their games, so its not like they wouldnt have the possibility to) and even less "humble"
    Any thought/reaction about that?
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o/

Don't read

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One dollar min is fine, honestly paying even that is kinda terrible unless you are really low on money, then I understand.

One key is fine, I don't see the issue, it slightly annoys me because I have games on Steam I will never want to play but its really whatever. If a friend really wanted a game or two out of the bundle just buy them a dollar key, its not much different from me buying them a soda while we are out and they are low on cash.

They are not treating us as criminals, they just dont want us to abuse the system they put in place and its obvious some did it seems. I mean they had to do a dollar min and bundle the games into 1 key, means someone was being terrible, its not like it hurts us much as explained above.

They expanded, they do indie game bundles and bigger game bundles, we as gamers should be ecstatic, they are still the best bundle site, stop complaining....Also Humble use to always do 1 key bundles, the multiple ones only happened rarely and recently.

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TL;DR

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I know you're going to get a lot of the "hurr, ur so entitled" posts, which isn't necessarily true, but I don't know if putting all in one key is the REAL problem.

The REAL problem is how they're starting to set their own BTA price, at least for their weekly sales. It was "pay above the average," but now it's "pay over six dollars." I mean, I guess it's good to try to get people to pay more, but once again it goes against the pay what you want scheme of things. I mean really, having a BTA tier in the first place does that, though I'm not TOO concerned with that. I like the Pay What You Want price scheme, but it's definitely veering away from what they originally intended for their website.

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And THEN there's the fact that SteamGifts STILL puts games on the bundle list even if they're in single keys. I haven't been on too much, but I don't think I saw a single game from the latest weekly sale being given away whenever I did log in. And I know I didn't put a filter on those games either.

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The only changes I care at all about are:

  1. The weekly bundle doesn't use a BTA system anymore.
  2. Buying early doesn't get you games added later anymore.
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+1, would discuss business with again

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The current mobile bundle did give the bonuses for early buyers.

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True. I'm guess I'm just hoping it's not a trend. The whole idea was to give people the incentive to buy earlier in the sale, possibly to make sure people don't forget about the sale and just not buy altogether. If people can't get bonus games for free later, then they lose that incentive.

But maybe I'm just entitled, who knows.

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