Humble's new BTA policy

It's fair, I definitely don't like it though.

I'm not sure about fairness, but it sure makes things a lot more inconvenient for people who want to move up a tier. Bad move IMO.
Although it might be for this specific bundle only, and if so, it's probably the publisher's doing. Can't blame HB for that.

That hidden code makes no sense to me

It makes sense for this pack, since if you get the biggest tier, you don't get the keys for the single games, as they are included in the package of it. So if you paid only for the first tier, got the keys and then upgraded, you would get extra keys.

Humble seem to throw different qualifications in depending on the Bundle. I don't understand what the point of disabling the 'increase your order amount' feature would be. If they were going to instigate this as a proper policy, I suspect they would just remove the 'lock in' feature, so you have to pay whatever the average is when you do the increase, otherwise they'll be burdened by constant refund requests. Therefore, I can only assume that this was demanded by Focus for some reason - because it's been done in such an ad hoc way.

Where does it actually state this. is it on your bundle/order page after purchasing? I can't see it anywhere on the page before purchasing. If they didn't want to make more work then they should have made it clearer to people before purchasing.

More money for food !

I think we shouldn't judge them from this particular bundle. I mean publishers/devs can always have special needs. 2K gives one key per tier, Focus Home Interactive wants people to buy it right when they see it. If they really want to implement that in future bundles, they will lose a lot of money.

they don't want more money... I guess I'm ok with that

For me its still 24 more hours for the Division ( its released in 12 hours but i can only play at night ) I'm a sad panda.

this sucks. sometimes people buy the tier they can afford, and try to scrounge, or justify, chipping in for the higher tier.

I've moved up a tier, because in the end I thought it was worth it. Other times I've hesitated between tiers. The big downside here, is that if I'm sitting on the fence, right now I'd just buy the lower tier, and then chip in the difference if I change my mind. Now, if I'm not sure about wanting Tier 3, I'd have to hold off on getting the BTA. If the BTA then shoots up to be more than I'd want to pay for it (e.g. the Firaxis bundle), I'd just not buy anything.

As an example, let's take the Firaxis bundle.
When the bundle first came out, I'd have bought the BTA for $5 or $6, because those games for that price is totally worth it, but I'm not sure if Beyond Earth is worth chipping in an extra ten bucks. I'd then have two weeks to consider whether or not to upgrade.

With the new policy, because I'm sitting on the fence with Beyond Earth, I'd not get the BTA yet. Now that the BTA has shot up to $10, there's no way I'd get it, because, quite frankly, I have most of those games, and I'm only interested in the 1 or 2 that I don't have already (and cost less than that on steam). So suddenly it becomes all or nothing - get Tier 3, or not at all. And right now, the answer is not at all.
(or, more precisely, Tier 1).

(this is actually what happened, because I was busy that day, and the price shot up beyond what I was willing to pay before I had a chance to look)

damn this cost me 1 cent and made sure I won't get tier 2!
Usually when I buy the bundle first, I wanna see how the price is going since I don't know the lowest price point most of the time. I just hate to rush things. I really hope this won't become their new policy...

Can anyone explain to me what does that mean, because i can't really understand it. i have never bought any bundle from humble, so this is new for me.

Same as every smart one, i don't like it but it's totally fair

This is complicated but at least manageable. Unpredictable region locking bothers me more tbh

This was a publisher specific request, as well as being a logical response to preventing the sale of extra keys.

There has been no policy change and there is unlikely to be one in the future.

This shit f***ed me and made me buy 2 bundles.

Maybe its because of the $40 tier..

its the publisher

First they don't give bonus games to 1$ purchases and now this? :(

i want cookies

It looks like they're changing quite a few things at Humble Bundle, including the "increase your order amount" policy:

http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/mYlTy/humble-bundle-and-the-increase-payment-option-after-a-bundle-has-ended