I'd like to know how much do people usually pay for bundled games.

Do you pay minimum $1, do you go for at least average or are you generous and pay more than average (how much)?

I personally bought only 2 bundles in my life, one was Humble Indie Bundle 6 and I went for BTA. The other one was recent Darksiders and Red Faction bundle for which I paid only $1 because I didn't have much money on my credit card at that time.

I felt bad and cheap for doing that and I probably won't be doing it again. I think people should pay more if they can afford it, developers that allow their games to be sold for so little deserve support (as opposed to most AAA developers nowadays).

What are your thoughts?

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Most of the time I BTA. But there are certainly some bundles I can't justify paying BTA for. (Like Thirty Flights of Loving and Super Hexagon from recent humble bundles.)

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^This. If I don't need or want the BTA game(s), then I'm not going to BTA. But same goes even for paying minimum...I'll only do it if I really feel it's worth it.

When bundles first started, I gave over the BTA, but now there's so many of them, I've stopped doing that. They've just flooded the market.

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Usually BTA. Just depends.

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I usually always go for the BTA when/if I buy bundles. (I haven't bought one in a while though. :( Fixed income sucks! >_< )

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Usually BTA even if I don't want the BTA games.

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Depends on the games included, of course.

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Usually bta, but if I can get it all for $1 then I do that as well. I don't feel bad for being cheap coz its for charity, I work hard for my money and I don't need to justify how I spend it to anybody but myself. If the government's of the world weren't screwing all of us and doing their jobs properly there wouldn't be any need for charities.

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Your logic, sir, is perfect.

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Yeah... Err... Sure, whatever you say.

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$1 - If BTA doesn't interest me and i don't own the games.

BTA - If i don't own the full bundle, or want the BTA games.

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I take the BTA price and round up to the nearest dollar.

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usually this.

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Bough around 3-5 bundles all BTA, depends on games which are in BTA.

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Usually go for a minimum price that is required for BTA, or minimum allowed price if I know for sure that I won't care for any of the BTA games.
The only exception to this rule is the Royale bundles where I rise the price a couple of cents from that of the minimum to get the price down for the next guy. I find it annoying that more people don't do that - several cents don't really make a difference most of the time and that would be a great way to keep the price low for everyone.

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On Royales I usually go up to the next dollar.

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I always pay BTA (beat the average) when it's good or BTA (below the average) when it's bad.

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I allways pay BTA too.

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iirc the only times I've paid $1 was the last two humble weekly sales, mainly because I already had 30 Flights and didn't have enough for THQ BTA

I guess I also bought a few $0.01 bundles as trolls

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HUEHUEHUEHUEHUE I'm a troll I'm making a charity event loose money. I'm so kool and bad.

Asshole.

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The charity thing was a stroke of genius. Humble Bundle Inc is a for profit company that gives some of the proceeds to charity. These are not "charity events". Companies donate proceeds to charity because it ultimately makes them more money because people feel better about their purchase. The best way to give to charity is to donate directly. Involving a middle man is just adding additional inefficiency to the system.

That being said, only giving $0.01 is still a dick move.

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but don't you only get drms of like 1/2 games at most if you pay .01?

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Yeah, you won't get Steam keys if you only pay $0.01 but it's still not a good thing to do. Paying that price actually costs Humble Bundle money because they still need to pay the transaction fees for the payment

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I agree on the first point and like your honesty on the second. Frankly, I don't think there's a huge difference in dickishness between paying $0.01 and $1, which is what I suspect most people pay. It's all so damn cheap that there's not much difference either way.

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I actually see a significant difference in dickishness purely because $0.01 will actually cost Humble Bundle money while $1 will leave them and the developers with next to nothing. I don't know what fees humble bundle is paying but their break even point is probably somewhere around $0.30 (not including salaries and hosting fees). You're super cheap if you only pay $1 but at least you aren't actively costing the company money.

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I'm poor, minimum all the way.

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Usually BTA because I want the BTA games. I usually will round it to the nearest dollar amount.

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Depends what it is for bundle, mostly nothing, sometimes MORE than bta and twice minimum.

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BTA unless the games make me angry because they are so bad it would be better to never have played them

Almost all to developers as quite a few people seem to go all in for charity and go 0% for developers if given the choice

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Like most it depends on what is on my account when the bundle is up and what games are in it.
When buying BTA I tend to round up to the nearest dollar unless the charity the given bundle is supporting is not for my liking.

I think the more interesting question would be, how people divide the amount they are paying; i.e. with the humble bundle you can choose between the developer, charity (and here even which you want to support) and then the humble tip.

Seeing how it is for charity I tend to put the charity option to max and split the rest between the other two; the developers putting their games in bundles know they are not going to be swimming in money by doing this: it is for charity.

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It depends on what's inside.

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Usually bta rounded up to the next dollar and the default split. I pay more if I actually will play the games, but I've played slightly less than half of the bundle games I've purchased.

On one of the more recent bundles, I decided I wanted a second copy of Dungeon Defenders for my wife (had a copy myself from an earlier bundle), and since I already knew I liked the game I paid 15$ all to Trendy.

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Depends on what's inside, but usually BTA or I don't buy it at all...

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Usually just BTA, but in the recent Tripwire I went just for $, since I got KF and dlc's already. And I paid 15$ for Humble THQ Bundle, since I wanted to support THQ as much as I could afford.

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Enough to get Steam keys. Used to pay $.01. Now, I pay $1.

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It depends on what's inside at least average

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