On average,how much do you give to charity when buying from Humble?
I have cranked it up to 100% a few times, but I tend to forget to touch those sliders when buying bundles since I don't buy them that often.
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Maybe, in the future, Humble will have a bundle that donates to people who are to poor to buy from them? :P
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Humble Bundle in the future: "What would you like to give for charity to poor steam users?"
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I had a long, well-thought-out reply in progress when I decided to look at your profile.
Well played and such :P
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I'll make an honest answer here. What I said is true. My steam assets are a lot better than my real life's assets. And although I have some money on steam, I don't have any paypal money. :P
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Fair enough, bad assumption on my part. I don't think it'd be impossible to find $1 from time to time but I do get that things like food/shelter/etc are more important :)
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True. The only money I have left, I spend them for some beers with friends. :P
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What ever the default happens to be which is 15%(?). They don't support CDN charities from what I so I'm not too bothered with the amount.
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Canada :P.
Sorry for not making it clearer. From the current pool, there are only a handful that I recognize and none of them are the ones that I would like to give to on a regular basis.
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Why did I think you were in SA? Anyway, I see.
Although the Staff Pick for instance this time has Oxfam and Action Against Hunger. OXFAM actually lets you see where each $1 goes and they've been vetted.I know that some people see charity as throwing good money after bad and although I don't understand that worldview sometimes otherwise decent people need to have proof before them.
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Because I'm latino? :P
sometimes otherwise decent people need to have proof before them.
This bring to mind the proverb "Trust but verify". While most charities act with the best of intentions, there are some that have either mismanaged their funds or have been outright scams in the past. By disclosing their financials to the public, they are keeping themselves accountable and showing the world that they know what they are doing and are serious about their mission.
I'm not against giving to charities and I commend Humble for making it a core feature of their site. It is just difficult to care about the amount when you do not hold a vested interest for any of the charities.
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Because I'm latino? :P
Actually something to do with a comment about giveaway regions, I think:)
It is just difficult to care about the amount when you do not hold a vested interest for any of the charities.
There aren't any local charities for your area? I guess they have to partner with HB in the first place.
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well, over here, it's unfortunately not unheard of for a charity to spend 60% on marketing and 40% on overhead.
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People say things like that a lot, and other than some chapters of The Red Cross mismanaging funds, I don't know of very many actual examples of this happening.It's true that some charities spend as much on overhead as they do on donations, but they tend to be the big ones like RC, Kidney Foundation, Lung Cancer, etc.
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none of the major charities do this. But there are some scam charities that do. Here are some examples where fundraising comprises over 80% of the budget:
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=8195
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=8308
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11770
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Oh I should mention CN as a resource. Thanks for the links.
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I just leave it by default, if HB thinks it's a fair deal I'm fine with that. I don't see any reason to give less to the developpers, they deserve their money, maybe I could give a little less to HB but they also deserve to be paid.
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A lot of times I am surprised when I see the average breakdown; the devs typically get the lion's share of the money. If it's a big company like Deep Silver or Disney (Lucasarts owner) I wryly set the tab to 0. IMO a charity needs it a lot more than a multimillion/billion dollar company but to each their own:)
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You forgot to mention THQ as one of the multimillion dollar company
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THQ was featured in HiB because they were going bankrupt. And the CEO bought a bundle from his own pocket paying quite a lot of money.
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We could also mention Sega, we've seen their games in a lot of HB recently. Unless you're a bank you're never too big to fail.
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I'm pretty sure Origin has defaulted their bundles so that they get 0$ and the entire proceeds made goes to charity or Humble. While it is true that one is never too large to fail, I highly doubt that the 1-2$ M in sales will impact such large companies in any serious degree :P.
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Not just defaulted to 0, it wasn't possible to give money to EA at all. It was a nice underappreciated PR move IMO.
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I wonder if he redeemed his keys or traded them. Or if they're still... out there... unused.
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I wasn't about to list all of the top companies, I think most people know which ones they are.If a huge company fails, it's not because a few people chose to donate to a charity:)
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Depends on the developers and the charity in question. But mostly default.
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Depends on the charity.
I'm a sucker for children's charities and animal charities.
and yes, I weep openly during ASPCA commercials
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The charity I give to in my city is a woman's shelter so, I get that.I have to change the channel during the ASPCA commercials.
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we used to foster rescue dogs quite a bit. here's a picture of the time we hosted a mother and her newborn puppies for 4 months
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Whoa! Those are some cute pups.
Sadly, until I move out of my townhouse and into a proper house, I can only have one dog, otherwise I'd have several already. Most people go to the mall to shop -- I go sometimes to visit the pups and kittens at the shelter there LOL.
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The 8th one was in the tub; that was the best picture we managed to snag.
Those dogs are all fairly big now (we kept in touch with the adopters for about a year after)
I've got two huskies, and that makes me happy. Keep visiting at the shelter. Offer to take them for a walk once in a while. If they get to know you, maybe they'll let you take a loaner to the beach or camping or something
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My college roommate had a Husky - beautiful dogs, fiercely loyal and extremely friendly. I adopted a malamute years back, but when he was 1 1/2 years old, someone stole him out of the yard (imagine that - a 90 pound dog, stolen), then a few years later I picked up a Yorkshire Terrier, which is perfect for where I live. I'm planning on moving into a new house soon, so I'm always looking for new housemates of the 4 legged variety lol. My mom and stepfather were both dog trainers (part-time, anyway), so I grew up around all kinds of dogs over the years. My next dog will definitely be a rescue, though.
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When I was young, our dog got dognapped. More accurately, he used to run away a lot. He probably would come back on his own accord, but we lived in a big city so that never happened.
Once he was gone for 3 days, before we get a call. He was in the worst part of town, and when my mom went to pick him up, they had bought new leash, collar, dog bowl, dog food, etc. Guess he was such a pain in the ass they didn't want him any more. But they still wanted to get paid for all the crap they bought - at vastly inflated rates.
Here's more pictures of those puppies:
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I usually do 50% for devs, 30% for charity and 20% for HB
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Depends on the bundle. For good bundles I give most of the money to the devs and the site, for "meh" ones I go 100% Unicef.
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If it's an indie bundle then I give 100% to the devs, but otherwise I give 100% to charities.
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Depends on lots of things but probably ~30, unless I forget.
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Usually leaving it as is... By the current ratio, as I see, it's like 15% to charity
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I used to manipulate the three % in the beginning, mostly depending on the developer (the bigger the dev, the less of a %) and try to slide the charity higher. That was until I realized that if I had to pay 75cents for the games and 25cents would be a voluntary bonus to charity, I wouldn't actually pay it. Now I just don't give the biggest % to charity. I don't touch the slides at all, 'cause I'm not going to act like I care enough about the charity. If I didn't have to I wouldn't pay the charity, But I Have To pay a certain amount in order to get the product. Let HB decide what they do with the money.
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When I remember to adjust it, 0%. I think I used to give all to devs but these days I give all to HB.
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Just bought one time and choosed Devs because they really deserved it.
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Usually 40% to charity, 40% to devs, and 20% to HB.
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I try to give equally for the devs, charity, and Humble tip....like 33 % / 33 % / 33 %
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if its a big company i give 95% to charity and 5% to humble usually
for indies i usually go default
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Whenever HB made it possible to give to local charities I started giving every penny to the charity part. Before that I gave the majority to charity and HB. Discussing this with a friend, I decided to start a poll.I didn't think this needed to be said but please only answer if you actually buy the Humble Bundles.
Since it is part of HB's mission statement to support charitities, here's a good resource for knowing where your money is going when you donate.
Charity Navigator Thanks to SGer dingbat for posting some links!
Have a GA
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