$15 is about as much as Civ 5 alone isn't it? If you don't like it, don't buy it.
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It would be, if Civ5 alone wasn't gave away for free for everyone who voted on the GMG awards.
The BTA is $7.66 by now and going up! I won't pay this for the GaK DLC. Neither 15$ for BnW. This 15$ is a cheap trick, but man, they're already selling with huge discounts. If we want to buy it at low price, we will have to be first buyers or not BTA. done. I bought for 1$ all charity this one. They will easily profit with the BTA, as this is a good bundle, so they won't get my money this time, and I think they won't feel bad for it, and neither I. Thanks HB! :P
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The real question would be: why do you act like one?
HB doesn't owe you anything. They're selling a bundle of games for a tiny fraction of the retail price while raising money for charity. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Just don't go bitching around and complaining that they didn't make them as cheap as you would have liked.
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Humble Bundle has done this many times before Starbound. It's treated like a sale, not as part of the main bundle.
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Learn some perspective, you cheap mofo. It is practically suicide for them to put their dlc on sale like that because they not only tarnish the value of the dlc for the long term but they also lose everyone that does buy the dlc from humble bundle. Big companies need to make big bucks to make their big games, maybe you should respect that logic instead of acting entitled. Not all companies are like the generic indie game that will end up in every single bundle for the rest of their lives because they make nothing worth buying otherwise :p
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I don't really understand the complaint. Few people buy the high price bonus, so the impact on the average eventually becomes minimal. Especially if you don't buy in the first day or two, which is unnecessary anyway.
On the other hand, I don't fully agree with the "it's all for charity" angle. The default split is 65% devs and 15% HB: I know it's customizable but they certainly make a substantial amount of money from sales.
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You do realize that they need to put food on the table and pay for server costs and everything else to keep the website/business running? They need some form of income to keep providing people with heavily discounted games.
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The thing which annoys me most about HB is the lack of customer service. They ALWAYS get back to you, but it tends to take a week or more. I've had it lock me out from using my card, and then have them answer my request to release my card, after sales are already over. I've also had to buy bundles twice before because the first one says it has already been used... I just keep telling myself...it's for charity, it's for charity.
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It's because you bitch and moan too much and they do it just to spite you!
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personally im getting really tired of people always fuckin complaining each damn time a bundle come out. People were crying about the Origin bundle, people were crying about the Humble Indie Bundle 9, people were moaning about the Bohemia weekly, just tell me I dare you, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU DONT LIKE AGAIN???! Its a quite pleasant bundle for once, try to pull your head out of your ass OP.
You know what? as much as I love HB, sometimes I think that most people dont even remotely deserve those bundle sales.
People like those really makes me feel ashamed of being a gamer.
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also just a quick heads up: HB is not acting like a bitch, however YOU certainly do
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When you select to donate to charity, the money actually goes to HB, and they donate it to charity. That way they can use the donations for tax deductions. Effectively, you're still giving to HB, and the US government is giving to charity.
If you don't want the money going to HB, you should give it all to the developers.
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They act like a bitch because they learnt from their customers.
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this is probably the first bundle ever to cost more than the games included during the sale, civ 5 was free, and brave new world was 5$ on sale, this sets a very bad precedent
ant to all caling humble bundle a charity, stop lieing to yourself and everyone else, its a for-profit business with optional donation for charity and with a store that earns them much more than they give to charity
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I thought it was very odd when I saw it myself. Civ V was free. Civ V Gold Upgrade is regularly $5 (which includes a bunch of DLCs not on offer here), and Brave New World is regularly $7.50. So, if it weren't for the old nostalgia games, one would get a whole lot less game for more money going with Humble Bundle than just being a regular deal watcher.
Which is a large leap away from being "Humble Bundle" towards being "Generic Store Bundle", and generic store bundles have an awfully hard time competing with Amazon Bundles.
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Civ V was free for a few days - not for a very long amount of time.
The gold update will soon (already stared) be replaced by "the complete edition". So it will soon not be possible to pick up the "gold edition update". The complete edition "Upgrade" will most likely be more expensive
BNW does not "regulary" cost 7,50. It does however sometimes cost that during sales. The current lowest price is like £18,87
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And the HB will last only 2 weeks. Your point is? Mine was - you could get a better deal with more game by being a savvy deal watcher (I know, because I helped two friends get just that deal).
Civ is one of those series that goes on sale all the time, so one doesn't even have to be all that savvy.
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My point being saying Civ V was free is kind of pointless when it was only made available for a limited time and for a limited amount of keys. That's like saying something that was made available for free for a limited amount of time and with a very limited quantity (comparing to the demand for that said product) is making any "normal" deal obsolete not good.
And yes, you can always (at least in most cases) find better deals at some point of the life of a product.
In this case if you did pick up the free civ V key and are only interested in "BNW" then yes, you will likely find better deal in the next upcoming six months or so. But if you're into the other products (even G&K) then this is a deal that is hard to beat with any normal sale. Especially now when the gold edition update will be discontinued.
And yes, Civ items tends to go on sale once in a while, but the "normal" sale price is 50% off (the newer dlcs) and only sometimes 75% sales, and I do think that any "complete edition update" will cost more than 15 dollars for the foreseeable future.
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The $1 tier is still incredibly awesome, so I don't see any reason to complain. Unlike most bundles HiB puts most things on the lowest tier anyway (and has a low low $1 tier when almost everyone else's is much higher); they haven't changed that.
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it kinda is, but the $1 tier is still great which is the point/ just buy that and ignore the other 2 this time you can get them cheaper from steam, and with the backlogs many here seem to have the wait is easy enough.
then again I also want to side with everybody else too(ex spoiled/entitled ect). its possible for both sides to be right :P
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Hb is going very bad...
I do not buy there anymore.
And i do not buy at mcdonalds. And if you do that to, they will change their acting. Like mcdonalds..
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Meeeh. Is Brave New Worlds DLC worth it for $15? I kind of want to get it, it's a $50 DLC itself.
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ppl like you are such an idiot! this is a great way to get cheap games not free games and to support charity! so what if they increase the price? it's just mean more money to charity, company behind the game and for those that made this deal possible! You sir, are one greedy son of the bitch... Also they did not demand you to pay 15 euro so you can get the games <.<
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the point is that this is NOT all that cheap unless you are comparing it with retail prices, and it is getting more expensive by the hour, it will most likely be cheaper during easter/spring sales...
and humble bundle is for-profit business that earns a lot of money, especially in the store where they always get MUCH more than charity
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I'm guessing you're only talking about CIV V + DLCs and not the entire bundle.
Keep in mind that most people were unable to get the base game for free due to the limited quantity and the limited time.
The normal retail price for BNW is 29,99. The normal sale price is around 9.99-15.00 At a few instances have that dlc been offered at higher discounts (down to 7.28) but that is far from the norm.
Still you need the other dlc. The lowest that has been ("standalone") is pretty much the same price as BNW. However the "gold update" has been cheaper at times (down to 5 I think)
That "gold edition update" will be discontinued due to the new "complete edition" being released.
That's s new package that contains all the dlcs and it's probably going to cost more than 15 dollar for the foreseeable future. That said, you might stumble on a good sale during the summer sale (or even a "cleaning" sale in feb/march for any retailers that have a "stock" of gold edition keys left) Bbut this is not at all a bad deal, even if you owned the base game and neither of the dlcs, unless you want to wait for a sale that might or might not come in near future.
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humble doesn't include the other dlc, only g&k. brave new world includes all the mechanics of gods and kings. so all you miss by not having it is the civilizations and senerios that were added, making g&k as insignfigant(or not) as any of the other dlc packs not included in the humble(the rest of whats in gold upgrade and the world map pack)so I'd be willing to say bnw+civ5, who's sale prices in the past total 15 anyway(with humble being 14(obviously you're not talking the entire bundle since the $1 is easily bought anyway so we subtract a dollar for the civ v cost) with the bonus of also having g+k's countries)
so humble is good if you're starting from scratch with nothing civ v and basically want the complete game but skip the extras(in which case you could get away without g&k)
if you don't intend to skip the other dlcs humble won't be worth it since it'd be much cheaper to get the all dlc pack than all the dlc except g+k and bnw. so you'd wait for a steam sale or the like and pick up the complete pack or complete pack upgrade when it drops in price (since the gold upgrade is gone now)
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I never said that this bundle contains all the DLCs. And while the core mechanics and stuff like that from G&K can be found in BNW. G&K still offers up a lot of content. (nations, scenarios, maps and other things) than any other add-ons.
I would say that Civ V + G&K + BNW makes the Civ V experience rather complete. The other add-ons are not essential, but might be interesting if you're a completist.
Still this 15 dollar tier is not for the DLC alone, it's for everything in the package. So if you have the base game and are only interested in BNW (and not the other games and dlcs) then go pick that up on a 75% sale. If you're interested in more than just the BNW then go for this, it's a good deal.
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I'm guessing you're only talking about CIV V + DLCs and not the entire bundle.
Keep in mind that most people were unable to get the base game for free due to the limited quantity and the limited time.
The normal retail price for BNW is 29,99. The normal sale price is around 9.99-15.00 At a few instances have that dlc been offered at higher discounts (down to 7.28) but that is far from the norm and far from being "everywhere"
Still you need the other dlc. The lowest that has been ("standalone") is pretty much the same price as BNW. However the "gold update" has been cheaper at times (down to 5 I think)
That "gold edition update" will be discontinued due to the new "complete edition" being released.
That's s new package that contains all the dlcs and it's probably going to cost more than 15 dollar for the foreseeable future. That said, you might stumble on a good sale during the summer sale (or even a "cleaning" sale in feb/march for any retailers that have a "stock" of gold edition keys left) But this is not at all a bad deal, even if you owned the base game and neither of the dlcs, unless you want to wait for a sale that might or might not come in near future.
And sure HB might be "hungry for money" but the reality is that developers are starting to get reluctant to participate in bundles due to low averages. The averages on this might chance some developers mind, cause this proves that if you offer a good "deal" then people will pay for that. (on all tier levels, not only above average or a fixed tier)..
Is it a step away from the "pay-what-you-want-model"? Yes, in a way. but that's HB and the developers trying to find to find a way that is working fom HB, for the devs any the other involved parties as well as still offer a good value at the lowest tier. If a "bonus fixed tier" is part of that then so be it. The reason why the thing is being tested (and why other thing's been tested in the past) is because the use of the PWYW -system being used as a "pay-as-little-or-just-above-the-minimum-system"
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Well, the price is not for the DLC alone, but for everything in the bundle. If a buyer is interested only in the fixed price DLC then yes s/he can will be able to find it on sale cheaper than 15 (somewhere and sometime) Most bundles buyers do however normally want more than one item from a bundle. (i.e base game, another dlc or other games)
Also I doubt you will be able to pick up 3 copies of BNW for 15 dollars. That would suggest (at the top of my head) a ~83 % discount. The highest discount so far has been 75 % (7,49) and a more normal one is 50-67% and I doubt we will be seeing +80 % anytime soon due to the "complete edition" being released.
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I seem to be detecting a slight trace of entitlement.
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last time they had starbound to raise BTA and now this $15 for expansion thing.. it really isn't cool and i didn't buy the previous one, i won't buy this either. What do you think is this an appropriate way to raise BTA's ?
edit1: when i posted this thread bta was around $5, if there wasnt above 15 thing it would be around $4 im not whining about the extra 1-2 dollars
edit2: i thought there was a common belief that if you want some 'extra stuff' you need to pay 'extra money' to bitches that's why i choose this title EDİT3: why does everyone misunderstood me and trying to burn my ass? anyway agree or disagree i just asked your opinions i simply don't care. and for those guys who didn't understand what i was trying to ask; Is this really a proper way to raise BTA?
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