Exactly! The day will cometh when Steam and ets elk will burn and CD/DRM free games will be the new currency.
That or retirement on a fixed income. Either way, backlog for the win!
As long as you can keep getting parts for your old rig, sure (alas, not all games keep playing nice with newer OS versions, hardware and drivers).
My problem is I was unemployed for nearly a year due to the pandemic and I didn’t really increase my gaming time, so when I gaze at my immense backlog I realize that retirement is unlikely to make a dent in it.
This will be all of us in the year 2045, trying desperately to scavenge the post-nuclear wasteland for whatever parts are left to build a functioning PC, hoping the fabled Cloud still exists somewhere so we can find our Humble Choice games, only to find all the keys have expired.
Just FYI, Maneater is on PC Gamepass.
I was interested in Endzone earlier, may not get the bundle only for it though. Don’t recognize most of the other games, need to find more info on them.
Canuck
4358
If your backlog of games hasn’t saved you in the middle of a literal pandemic then there’s no hope.
I mean, there’s still been loads of new games released, and I for one have had less time to play videogames, not more.
Well, after reading the list of titles I was all set to declare I was pausing and to point out my heroic ability to do so without whining like a gamer-baby… But actually there are quite a few charming looking, well-reviewed indie games I’ve never heard of in this bundle! I might even play one or two of them in the next ten years! ALL IN!
I felt like I never got a fair test of this. I was considered an essential worker and never missed a day of driving to work during the pandemic, so nothing really changed for me.
Also, I’d think to truly take advantage of a pandemic I would have to have been single during that time, and out of work. I surely would have made a huge dent in my triple-A backlog at least.
Kolbex
4362
Voidigo looks like the most Nuclear Throne game since Nuclear Throne. I am taking the the overwhelmingly positive reviews with a grain of salt, though, since most of them seem to have been written by borderline illiterate children.
Same here, and after a few months of that I realized I was actually gaming less during the pandemic because I was working more and dealing with more stuff and all I wanted to do at the end of most days was collapse onto the couch and binge some TV with my wife. The backlog will have to wait for retirement, which is still a decade and a half away.
As for this month’s Choice, Endzone looks intriguing, as does Partisans 1941. Together they might even be $8 worth of intriguing, however Endzone also looks a whole lot like Surviving the Aftermath, which I already own and haven’t played much of yet, and Partisans 1941 looks a whole lot like several other games I own and haven’t played, in fact I am up to my eyeballs in strategy titles that I’m really interested in playing but simply haven’t had the time to dive into…
…so the question becomes, do I want to spend $8 to add two more games to the retirement stash?
OK here’s a new one: instead of getting the email saying “you’re unpaused, go choose your December games!” I get one that urges me to “Join now!” and offers me a $99 bucks for a year deal.
Even when I go to the (mobile) site and sign in, same deal.
Maybe they finally “ungrandfathered” me.
Heh, I just took to the subreddit to see if anyone else has reported this, and if I’m not mistaken, your problem seems to have solved itself!
Yeah, that was me: I posted a near clone to the subreddit and it looks like my first login didn’t “take” somehow.
Still the email was weird in that it didn’t acknowledge that I was a Classic subscriber.
Well you’re probably right, although like others I wasn’t sitting around on my ass for that time. I’m self-employed so it wasn’t a free vacation, just lots of cancelled contracts and plenty of work trying to adapt. And when I did have free time, I went into working on stuff at home that hadn’t been done due to being too busy! Such is life, and frankly I wouldn’t want to sit around playing games all day anyway. So why am I still adding more games to my backlog? Good question.
You guys are doing a much better job at pushing me to cancel than I ever did. ;)
Soma
4368
I think I finally figured out why Humble Monthly model is leaving me cold almost every month: it is the subscription plan from MS/EA/Ubisoft offering so much more value than some random drop in the Monthly. I would rather pay a bit more a month to play a game I want to play than something that I may or may not like. It is like joining e.g. Netflix for a month just to binge on a Netflix movie or TV series is cheaper than buying the Boxset.
As far as ownership of games is concerned it is kind of irrelevant: I “own” hundreds of games I never play anyway, so “ownership” doesn’t really have appeal as it is. Software “ownership” is merely license to use anyway, not “real” ownership, so it is very close to the subscription model. Rather than buying a license to play a game “forever”, I just buy license to use license to play a game on a monthly basis in the subscription model.
Yes, but the key difference here is that the subscription model offers you a small (relatively speaking) selection of games, any one of which could be removed at any time. If you want to play GAME X right now, especially one you’re unlikely to ever play again, then the subscription model absolutely makes sense. But if you want to play it at your own pace on your own schedule, especially if you might play it for some time, then it’s much better to own it.
I remember when Game Pass first launchedf and I subscribed, downloaded half a dozen games that I wanted to play, but most of them were gone before I got time to really try them out. I’ve subscribed again now, because $1 for three months is silly not to take up, and I’m playing Halo Infinite for $1 instead of $90. I mean you can’t possibly argue with that value (although I did have all kinds of dramas yesterday with Game Pass being an ass). I’m playing Undertale which I’ve always wanted to try out, and Omno as well, neither of which I will ever play again once finished. So yeah, it’s pretty good when it works.
Bluddy
4370
Looks like I’m pausing. While there are some good things here, there’s nothing I was interested in, and at a certain point I just don’t care about endless repetitive variations of genres Indie devs love making. If a game isn’t close to being best in its class, for example, I’ve had my fill of action roguelites and I’m not really interested. Same applies to metroidvanias.
They just sent me the $6/month deal for two months. I don’t think I really want to spend even $6 on the December bundle. I can get better on Fanatical I believe.
Papageno
4372
So you’re not an ongoing month to month member?
Maybe if I threaten to Pause for a third month in a row they’ll bribe me with the four bucks off. Partisans 1941 looks pretty cool.
