Damn, I may sign up if they sent me that.
I have a yearly sub and yeah this is weird. I want a second copy to give someone dammit.
To be fair, if you pause a bunch and base that decision on only on visible entries then you are wasting your time anyway. You save what, $12 a year by buying annual? If you really need that $12 a year then you shouldn’t be buying humble bundles to begin with, and otherwise just do month to month and only pay when something peaks your interest.
I thought it was a dick move to send me the email about kingdom come (a game I would want) when I’m in an annual subscription. They did just send a follow up email to apologize for it though.
Heads up that if you want Hitman with all of the DLC, you can get Hitman regular edition from the Humble Monthly for $12 and then on Steam you can add the GOTY bundle for $6
Thanks, yeah I’ll grab the missing 2 pieces of dlc this way.
For me it’s the opposite, I’m a game hoarder, I use the bundle as a tool to try and restrict my buying.
Agreed. Somehow, it’s easier to talk myself out of buying random stuff during sales when I know there’s already random stuff on the way.
Humble Bundles are the absolute best for someone like me, for whom the PC is not their primary gaming platform. I don’t think any of the games that have come up in bundles are any I have owned yet, at least not on PC, so they’re all new to me. Even if they’re kind of old.
Yeah Humble Bundle would be great if I didn’t buy anything else.
I’ve used it for my PC gaming for awhile now. I always consider any PC game purchase in the context of the Humble Monthly and whether it could show up there and how soon I think it might.
For the most part, that’s been pretty good for me. I end up knocking things off my wishlist often. It’s a good use of $12.
My impulse purchasing has gone way down since I started getting Humble Monthly. $144/yr is a big improvement from $300+/yr.
I don’t play most of the games I get from it, but honestly I wasn’t playing most of the games I bought without it.
I had the humble monthly on pause, but decided to try my luck and cancelled when I read about HB taunting Thraeg. I got the Deliverance offer today! Offer expires Oct 22nd 11:59pm, so it might be too late to try and cancel for it now, but you never know.
Imma let you guys finish, but here’s a question about these fixed term subscriptions to the Monthly – say you get a 3 month one: does that mean three consecutive months or can you still pause a month when the headliner doesn’t interest you?
Not sure about three month ones, but as a yearly subscriber I cant find any option to pause.
Add me to the list as well. I cancelled my perma-paused “subscription” on Thursday, and by Friday evening I had the email from Humble offering up Kingdom Come : Deliverance for free if I subbed for 3 months.
Given the fact that I am very interested in KC:D (was just waiting for a larger price drop), it’s pretty much a no-brainer as at worst it’s like getting it for $35 (it’s lowest sale price so far) with around 18 free games attached. While I’m not interested in any of the reveals this month, all it would take is another revealed game in any of the three months to be something I am interested in and suddenly the value of my purchase more than doubles. I like those odds.
My only concern now is that the site still shows my “subscription” as active through November, even though it’s cancelled, so I wonder if that will conflict with the deal and disqualify me from purchasing?
I’m with you 100% on the skepticism, but pulled the trigger just now anyway. I’m saving the email with the link I used, the one that says KC:D is granted via email on the 23rd…so now it’s just a waiting game.
You people cray :) even if I give away half my codes each month (and check, I do!) this is still the best deal in gaming
I have 379 games in my Steam library and 103 games in my GOG library, most unplayed. What’s crazy is even buying more games at this point. And yet I probably will. The Monthly deal got me because I was curious about Overwatch and then Dungeons 3 looked interesting, so the CC got heated up again.
Not a doubt in my mind …
… although this is the one valid counterpoint. IF someone is interested in buying PC games, this is hands-down the best way to go.
I’ve been able to hold off on almost all new releases since joining the monthly plan, whereas in the past I would typically grab at least one hot, new (and therefore expensive) game fairly frequently. Now when I’m tempted, the next thought in my mind is, “This might be in a bundle in the future and I already have all these other games to play” and it becomes an easy decision to hold off. So at the cost of 2 new games of choice per year, I get upwards of 70 randomly selected and typically slightly older games.
But like Mark said, this still only makes sense if you’re in the market for more games.