If you’ve been meaning to Pause for the current less-than-spectacular bundle but haven’t yet, you have about a week to do so because “Last Tuesday” is “auto-buy” day.
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Humble Bundle limiting charity portion to 15%
TL;DR:
They’re revamping the layout, splitting the tiers between separate pages because somehow that’s supposed to let you see things “more clearly” than having all options on one page???
Sliders will be removed and fixed with two pre-set distributions. Default is 85% Publisher/5% Charity/10% Humble, the other is 80% Publisher/15% Charity/5% Humble.
The effect of that is that I’ll buy from them less. Traditionally one of the nice things about Humble was being able to zero out contributions to games I didn’t want in a bundle, shift payments to the charity I liked out of he three being contributed to and so on. Removing that control disincentivizes purchases, not that your typical Humble bundle is worth much these days anyway.
Mind you, I’m surprised it took the new owners this long to lock the Humble tip at a non-trivial value and to guarantee publisher revenue by preventing people from being “too generous” to the charities.
I personally don’t think it’ll affect my buying from them either way, since I don’t buy stuff for myself in order to give to charity. If I want to do that I give to the charity directly. I mean, it’s a nice-to-have but not critical.
As a consumer you may like that, but I guess devs disliked it. So while on one hand it can disincentivize some purchases, it may incentivize some devs to take HB offers.
I mean, it’s an artifact of how Humble started, as an indie promotion and charitable giving thing run by a quirky indie team. Once it became a huge thing with corporate ownership, and once it started selling bundles full of AA and AAA games, it was bound to disappear. I’m honestly amazed it lasted as long as it did because yeah, I’d think it would be very off-putting to most of the publishers they work with these days. My best guess is that it wasn’t a huge obstacle because relatively few of us used it.
Yeah, I basically never did. And am much more annoyed by their backwards-ass take that having to click through to different tiers is somehow more convenient than a tiny amount of scrolling. Although it definitely sucks for charity.
Yeah, that’s just idiotic.
The charity aspect of Humble has always been an attractive side benefit of purchasing through them, but has never been the deciding factor for me (excluding the specific 100% to charity bundles they sometimes run). If anything, I would usually adjust the sliders to give a good chuck of the Humble share to charity instead of taking anything more away from the developer share. I figure Humble was making decent money even at $0.50 per bundle sold. This doesn’t seem to change anything for me other than Humble hard-coding themselves a larger share. That larger share will come from the charity portion (which is a shame, but it’s still raising lots of free money for the organizations involved) and the dev portion (which is crappy, and could end up causing some devs to rethink their use of Humble or result in higher overall bundle prices).
100% this. Scrolling down was a very easy way to see what was available at what price and make an instant decision. Tabs are going to requite three or four times the amount of time involved. Plus having everything listed on one scrolling page made information capture easy for people like me who often post the bundles and deals on sites like QT3. This new way will be awkward and time consuming.
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Humble just set their Legacy slider to 0%.
Hmm. Darksiders Genesis is great, but I already have it. Don’t care about Metro. What’s Hellpoint?
Dark Souls in Space if I recall correctly.
Ha! There is the Darksiders Genesis that a bunch of us predicted would be in the April bundle.
On the other hand, Metro Exodus is a title I’ve been close to pulling the trigger on many times, and now I am glad I waited. $12 (or less if I play the “are you sure you want to pause?” game) would be a historic low and worthwhile for me. Getting Hellpoint too would be a huge bonus, and I’m surprised it’s on offer in a Choice Bundle this soon.
I believe Hellpoint is a Souls-like style game. (Edit: Ninja’d)
Metro Exodus is a phenomenal game and I have heard good things about Darksiders Genesis though I already own both. Looks like a great month for those interested in the headliners, but another pause for me due to ownership (unless there is something amazing buried in the unrevealed titles).
My guess is Exodus will be without the DLCs.
I’m remembering correctly that the Metro games are linear shooters with checkpoints that are bastard hard and super-stingy with the ammo, yes?
I know I’m probably in the minority, but I get less interested in Humble Choices when they announce a bunch of big-name titles.
Exodus has linear small/medium open maps, I think you can save at any time.
