Yeah man. Sparing $5 for three products + service while adding up with the donations for a non-profit organization is surely an outrage of the largest caliber, specially when their main focus on this is to keep idiots away from downright taking a large sum of their key stock.
How dare those greedy thieves! They should be more like the all-mighty Activision, and charge $60 for one shitty product plus charge extra for anything on top. Those are the real heroes we clearly deserve.
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I guess people forgot that indie bundles are all about helping charity and devs and not just a cool thing that gives you more steam icons for a minimum price. People are freaking out about steam keys being $5? FFS, it's still 50% cheaper than the pre-order. And after all, if you care about playing a game, get a DRM-free copy for < than $5.
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Pay what you want for Botanicula and save the rainforest.
You can save the rainforest better by using tree-less paper.
Plus I'm against the whole "you can't actually pay what you want to get Steam copies but instead have to pay what we want you to pay even though this is supposed to be pay what you want" thing.
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Because I WANT Steam keys, but they're not letting me pay what I want for them.
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I can't believe that like 90% of the persons in this thread seem to think that 5$ (for Steam keys mind you, you can still get the games DRM-free if you pay less) is overpriced for three games, including a game that was released TODAY with a retail price of 10$. I know that the other two were in other bundles, but come on, that's still 50% off the retail price even if you buy it just for Botanicula!
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Nope, since the Steam keys are at $5 this time I doubt people are gonna be selling the keys for $1-$2 any time soon.
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I love how people are all like "$5 for Steam keys! I thought this was pay what you want!" when of course they can still get it for 1 cent, just not the Steam keys, those are bonuses, like the pay above the average games are bonuses and they are over $8 at the moment but I don't hear people going "Pay over the average for bonuses!? I thought this was pay what you want!".
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I remember so many other bundle threads where people would proclaim, 'wow this is the worst bundle yet, way worse than humble bundle's offerings'
Well now its my turn to exclaim a mighty 'meh'
This is the weakest bundle yet in my opinion. None of the games interest me, and I'm definitely passing. I'm open to someone explaining why these games might be worth a play, but I just don't see it
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Man the average is high, I guess due to it being $5 for Steam keys this time. Well I already have Machinarium and Samorost 2 (previous Humble Bundles of course) so that only leaves Botanicula and the above average bonuses. Well the average was around $8.70 - $8.80, I went and paid $10.
Also people complaining about $5 for Steam keys, just wait until HumbleBrony and Notch start donating and watch the average then.
EDIT: Note to self, donate a bit more to HumbleBrony.
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Lame, 1 new game for paying the minimum + 2 games from previous bundles, and 1 new game and a movie for beating the average. If it wasn't priced so high I still might buy it, but honestly point&click games aren't really my thing anyway. This may be the first HIB that I pass on.
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for me this is 2 new games and a movie (i got samarost 2 and machinarium through hib1 and hib2), and without an opportunity to donate to eff. still bought it with most of my money going to the charity though. hopefully they'll find something to add onto it that i like even more than what's already in there.
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I'm reading all those complaints and only one thing comes to my mind:
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Meh, I don't really want any of the games anyway. Not even as steam-library stuffers; what's the point in owning gmaes I'll never play?
When they were $1 minimum I bought copies for two friends of mine who don't have any debit/credit accounts due to...economic reasons I'm not really at liberty to discuss for them. But as much as I love my friends, I can't afford to drop $10 (or $15 for the inflated beat-the-average price) every time an indie bundle comes out, especially now that they seem to come out every week.
Guess I'm joining the "only numbered humble bundles" bandwagon.
Edit: Just keep in mind that a price raise changes what these bundles compete against. When it's suddenly $5 minimum for Steam copies and $8 total, it has to compete with all the other things I can get on Steam for $5, including somewhat dated (but still great) AAA titles I never got around to. I got Borderlands for $5, for christ's sake - and I feel like if I'm gonna spend that much money on said friends as well as myself, I have to ask myself what else I could buy for that much money that might be equally fun or even more fun. For slightly more than this bundle costs, I could buy the entire Mount & Blade series.
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a short explanation fromHiB's staff :
// it's unlikely that we'll keep the same 5$ minimum in future bundles
it's a special case here since this game was released today, and it just wouldn't be financially viable for the developers if we didn't impose a minimum
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This explanation seems to me like a very great thing indeed. If this is true and they stand for it, this could mean that a) the 5$ minimum is not going to be regular (I'm only complaining of that because it really inflates the average price, but it's still a good deal for me) and b) we might get some newer titles in future bundles too, although probably with this minimum for Steam keys.
Another thought for people who are baffled by this 5$ or no Steam thingy; the first HIB did not even include Steam games. It was only DRM free versions, as DRM is something they and the charities (EFF, remember?) did not support. Still, they made over a million with it, and it was way after the bundle ended when the buyers got some keys for their games on Steam, as an unexpected bonus. I, for the life of me, can't understand why so many people only see the Steam keys in these bundles lately. A game is as good a game on a platform, as it is DRM free.
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can't understand why so many people only see the Steam keys in these bundles lately. A game is as good a game on a platform, as it is DRM free.
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^this
As a collector, I'd really prefer to have hard copies of all of my games. But some games are digital-only, and I'm a little poor at the moment, so cheap Steam sales are the way to go. Steam's a good way to keep a collection going and keeping it organized within the digital realm. I still have a few GoG and Telltale games here and there, but I try to keep the number of locations I download from to a minimum. It's harder to gather it all together and keep track of it all when you've got a bajillion files all over from two bajillion sites to catalog.
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Really I think part of the think behind Steam keys is that it allows auto-updating of the games, with the DRM free versions if they update it you have to manually go and re-download it, assuming you even know there's an update, and assuming the updated version is even available through Humble Bundle (eg. the Christmas update for Binding of Isaac isn't available if you play the DRM free version).
However I suspect this is only a minor part of the reasoning and that most people don't think of this when they think about wanting Steam keys.
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I don't see why they just didn't make it Beat The Average instead of a dirtcheap $3 game ($1 on sale).
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Maybe this sounds a little paranoid, maybe I've spent too much time dealing with companies that hate their customers, but the fact that they say it's "unlikely" instead of a definitive statement makes me think that maybe they're just testing the waters to see if they can get away with it in the future and/or to see how much additional revenue it brings.
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Steam keys are now $5...? Well, for a normal bundle with games I don't already own/been in older bundles that might be fair but this one is just... meh. :(
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Simply make it beat the average, problem solved. Now you beat the average (+$4) to get a game that cost $3 or $1 on sale.
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I remember bying Hib2, receiving extra Hib1 keys. I remember bying Hib3, receiving extra Hib2 keys. Just to say thanks to participate in the incredible kewl format they invented. NOW they are screwing their own format.... (games already in previous bundles + 5$ dollar minimum for steam keys????????!!!! + an insane $ 8,72 bta) I'll guess the format just died RIP HIB
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That beat the average price is something VERY similar to the overall average people paid for the very firs Humble Bundle. You know, the one that didn't even promise such things as a Steam key (it was a bonus added later).
Granted, I liked it better when I could nab these for 4 or 6 bucks, but 8-9$ is way far from being "insane" for me.
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It's here http://www.humblebundle.com/
Above average
"Pay $5 or more and you’ll get a Steam key in addition to DRM-free direct downloads."
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