good point. but not reallly interested in music bundles at the moment.

Oh I'd love a good music bundle. Still considering that Steampunk thingy, but in general,
I'd like to see more rock music stuff and less synthweave / electronica. Something like
the She Rocks Bundle ... I'm still sooo sad I missed that one.

Agreed. I didn't buy the 27 one, since I thought it was very bad. I also was disappointed with the 25-26 ones IIRC.

Oooh, did you buy the top tier from it?
1$ for nothing.
BTA for also nothing.
15$ for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. :D

I don't think Groupees is the problem, I believe it's the dev.

(tl;dr at bottom)

Despite Miller having been a known troll in the community before his rise into curatorship, he's somehow managed to gain the keys to the kingdom over this past year, effectively becoming the new face of Groupees. At the same time we've seen the advent of junk bundles like the 50 cent series, and the widely perceived general decline in quality of all bundles (including Be Mines).
Even with their down periods, I still used to buy Groupees bundles monthly, and yet now (and despite the increased frequency of Groupees bundles being dropped) it's been months without any purchases for me, and with not a moment of regret to that fact besides. And each time, it seems Miller's name gets tossed around as being the one to blame for the design of the bundle in question..
Assuming he gets a cut of each bundle, and the attribution of responsibility is accurate, then you gotta wonder if he's not just churning them out as fast and sloppily as possible on purpose.

Of course, there's a certain degree of subjectivity to interpreting such things (though majority opinion definitely seems to be in line with my own, especially as I'm usually one of the last to nitpick over Groupees bundle quality), but at the least, there's definitely something questionable with how Groupees has handled things of late. At the very least, it has made preordering feel like a far less manageable risk.

That said, as far as I'm aware Groupees is still maintaining its solid reputation for sorting out purchase issues, and so far we've not seen anything to support the negative aspects some certain users are indicating.
Nevermind that GMG and IG both have far worse reputations when it comes to invalidated keys, and even BundleStars has gotten criticisms of late, so the whole emphasis on Groupees alone is a bit silly. Basically, in the end, Humble is really the only one that you can be entirely sure of keys on. At the very least, Groupees key issues, very rare as they are, all (as far as I know) end up being tied to developer actions*. Meanwhile, all the other non-Humble sites have made it clear that the issues are typically based in their own policies, shortcomings, or outright acts of duplicity and disregard.

*That one Groupees or IG-published game that got temporarily removed from various bundle sites by accident aside.

In short, it's fine to complain about the bundles themselves, but attacking the character of Groupees as a seller is still premature, given the lack of any supporting evidence to that effect. Even in regards to this specific game, the developer hasn't actually released any comments (that I can find, or that have been linked on the forums) that actually indicate dissatisfaction.
In fact, the only comment linked as "evidence" thus far has stated that "Yes, sales were lower than if we'd sold at retail, but the entire point of using Groupees was to reach new customers, and we believe we've succeeded there, so we're satisfied.". So, y'know- the very opposite of dissatisfaction.

And, that's another thing to keep in mind. Groupees is a niche indie site, that developers typically use for exposure, rather than sales. Ever done the calculations on bundle profits? They're remarkably threadbare for any developer involved.
It's certainly possible that Groupees isn't indicating that fact well, but in the end, the data is all openly available. Any developer/publisher that doesn't do the bare minimum research they ought be doing before making a sales decision, takes full responsibility for the outcomes.

Between that and basic contract law requirements, it seems highly dubious that Groupees is engaging in anything duplicitous, especially considering that it's only been something like three single developers across all the bundles that've had issue, and the last few all turned around to attack their customers, so they pretty much proved their basis was less in issue with Groupees and more in general untrustworthyness.

Of course, developers have reported that Groupees failed to give solid details on their bundles to them in the past [such as the Uwe Boll bundle, where the developers all indicated surprise in being clumped in with such.. talent], and there is the fact that lack of proper communication certainly seems to be a long-standing issue with Groupees. In fact, there's a lot to gripe about as a Groupees customer, so if developers are handled with similar unprofessionalism, there's definitely reason to give some leeway to developers having complaints.

(tl;dr)
So, in summary:
Groupees may be underperforming in some communication aspects, but all indications still show them as being trustworthy; Regardless of all that, all responsibility lies with the developers in question; and there's no actual evidence yet to show the current developer even has an issue with Groupees.

So the two or three users on SG angsting over the matter and bringing it up regularly, seem to be presenting an entirely baseless argument so far- an argument further undermined by such concerns being in line with the regular determinations of the users in question.
Once we get word from the developer, and give Groupees a chance to respond to the situation, then we can determine an appropriate response.

..that all said, I'm still expecting to be thoroughly disappointed by this MillerSpamBundle458 Be Mine. :X
May I be proven wrong. ^.^

Yeah, you're right. I forgot that the Be Mine's don't give you an actual background game graphic like the other bundles do, just those awful hand drawn images.

Oh, maybe you're right. At first I thought they were just defaults like the cat. They're so darn small you can barely see them.

:( i looked at my order page, that explains why i have lots of gaps of months at the end of the years.

There you go again, confusing folks with empirical data, logic, and reason, rather than hunches and speculation.

Shame on you! ;-D

+1

And I hope that the soon is really soon. :-)