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The **** is wrong with people, seriously? There's even articles complaining about this on more legitmate sites. Note the fact that the use "charity" isn't used once in the entire article until a Humble representative weighs in.
Amongst the hyperbole they do make some vaguely worthwhile points. Let's just remove charity from the equation from the moment, as this is undeniably a surprisingly 'humble' move from THQ (albeit with obvious commercial benefits, but it's hard to be negative when the deal benefits both gamers and good causes). Humble Bundle have frequently shown their commitment to multi-format gaming, although with both this and the Double Fine bundle that just finished they've gone Windows exclusive. Remember that Mac and Linux users have, on average, been consistently more generous when it comes to these bundles as they're appreciative of the support for their formats (not exactly like the Linux gamer particularly is spoiled for choice). It's not completely unreasonable that they're a bit disappointed.
And I have to admit I was briefly surprised that Humble - who have consistently shown themselves to be one of the staunchest defenders of imaginative independent gaming, and DRM free gaming at that - have teamed up with a major publisher to offer very mainstream titles (no surprise its the best selling bundle yet). It's an unusual and unexpected step, so no reason people can't express moderate surprise. It is at odds with what, up until now, Humble was perceived to stand for - a reinterpretation of the company and what it does is required.
The value of the deal and the decency of THQ's offer does ultimately render complaints close to moot (well, for everyone except us Mac and Linux users left on the sidelines, but we've come to expect that
). A deal this big for Humble themselves would likely have been near impossible to turn down - significantly raising 'brand awareness' and likely a massive amount of charitable donations. It'll be interesting to see how the company expands going forward, given they've also offered soundtrack and e-book bundles this year. With expansion a few people inevitably get left behind or, in extreme situations, grow embittered - many will of course decide to vent on the Internet in regrettably exaggerated manner.
Plus, y'know, charity.0 -
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A temporary issue though, the Amnesia Bundle overlapped the HB Android 4 bundle which featured not only the usual multi-platform compatibility but also desktop and mobile versions where applicable too.johnny_ultimate wrote: »Amongst the hyperbole they do make some vaguely worthwhile points. Let's just remove charity from the equation from the moment, as this is undeniably a surprisingly 'humble' move from THQ (albeit with obvious commercial benefits, but it's hard to be negative when the deal benefits both gamers and good causes). Humble Bundle have frequently shown their commitment to multi-format gaming, although with both this and the Double Fine bundle that just finished they've gone Windows exclusive. Remember that Mac and Linux users have, on average, been consistently more generous when it comes to these bundles as they're appreciative of the support for their formats (not exactly like the Linux gamer particularly is spoiled for choice). It's not completely unreasonable that they're a bit disappointed.
Surprise I can understand, in fact it was my first reaction too. Upon reflection though, it makes sense. As I said above, we've now had music and eBook based bundles as well as the more developer centric Introversion and Lexaloffle bundles, nevermind the awesome Amnesia Bundle so why not give AAA a chance?johnny_ultimate wrote: »And I have to admit I was briefly surprised that Humble - who have consistently shown themselves to be one of the staunchest defenders of imaginative independent gaming, and DRM free gaming at that - have teamed up with a major publisher to offer very mainstream titles (no surprise its the best selling bundle yet). It's an unusual and unexpected step, so no reason people can't express moderate surprise. It is at odds with what, up until now, Humble was perceived to stand for - a reinterpretation of the company and what it does is required.
I could understand possible outrage if they turned around and said they were moving to this kind of AAA content exclusively but as it stands the reaction comes across as knee jerk and completely over dramatic.
I'd imagine given the success of this bundle and their previous efforts we'll see further experimentation with bundles but yes, as long as no group completely gets lets behind then it'll be fine.johnny_ultimate wrote: »The value of the deal and the decency of THQ's offer does ultimately render complaints close to moot (well, for everyone except us Mac and Linux users left on the sidelines, but we've come to expect that). A deal this big for Humble themselves would likely have been near impossible to turn down - significantly raising 'brand awareness' and likely a massive amount of charitable donations. It'll be interesting to see how the company expands going forward, given they've also offered soundtrack and e-book bundles this year. With expansion a few people inevitably get left behind or, in extreme situations, grow embittered - many will of course decide to vent on the Internet in regrettably exaggerated manner.
Plus, y'know, charity.
And yes, charity. Using the default split it works out as a bit over $200,000 after only what, 6 hours?
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Can't activate it now but how will steam deal with already having some of the games already, not the same since the orange box was valve but I was able to gift some of those games since I already had them when that came out.
Says on the site that you "can't" gift the games you already own unfortunately.
I just bought 3 packs, took down all the codes and will send them to people on STEAM later as a nice surprise 0 -
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anyone wanna swap a game code they have for Steam for the main code in the HB?
containing Darksiders, Red Faction: Armageddon, Metro 2033, Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, and Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
I might throw in Saints row if you're nice 
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