| garbanzo United States. May 11 2010 05:19. Posts 2943 | Profile # |
Not sure how many of you have heard of the deal for The Humble Indie Bundle. You pay what you want for 6 indie games and you can choose who the money goes to (developers, Child's Play and/or EFF) and how much of it.
I think it's a really great deal and I personally paid $20 to go to all the starving indie developers. The reasoning was that if I saw any of these games on Steam for $5, I would probably buy it, but I wasn't sure if all the games would be worth it so I paid for about 4 of them. I already bought World of Goo and liked that game a lot. I think a fraction of what I paid for the bundle is probably worth just that game.
There's less than 24 hours left on the sale so I think you should go out there and support the indie gaming scene before it gets swallowed up by PopCap and the like.Last edit: 2012-06-04 10:21:58 |
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| [-Bluewolf-] United States. May 11 2010 05:44. Posts 519 | Profile Blog # | |
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| emperorchampion Canada. May 11 2010 06:07. Posts 4122 | Profile Blog # |
Just bought, thanks for the heads up  |
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| omgbnetsux United States. May 11 2010 06:14. Posts 3748 | Profile Blog # |
| I bought it last week. Worth a few bucks for World of Goo alone, especially with the DRM free cross platform. |
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| Ducci United States. May 11 2010 06:22. Posts 546 | Profile # |
| World of Goo is an awesome game |
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| Corvi Germany. May 11 2010 06:47. Posts 1343 | Profile Blog # |
| aquaria and world of goo sure are very amazing games. someone can tell something about the others? |
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| Elric United Kingdom. May 11 2010 06:54. Posts 1327 | Profile Blog # |
Thanks for the heads up!
Bought it for $20 too. All for the developers. |
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| garbanzo United States. May 11 2010 12:23. Posts 2943 | Profile # |
That's pretty messed up. I didn't know that actually. But is it still considered pirating if it's so freely available?
On May 11 2010 06:47 Corvi wrote:
aquaria and world of goo sure are very amazing games. someone can tell something about the others?
I haven't actually gotten a chance to try the other games. I'm hoping to check them out in the next couple of days. |
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| BrownBear United States. May 12 2010 04:17. Posts 2702 | Profile # |
| Will buy it come my next paycheck. I'm thinking about 30$ should be good? I mean, I'm a huge fan of what Child's Play is doing, so I really like to support them whenever my starving-college-student budget allows for it. |
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| pash1k Ukraine. May 12 2010 04:34. Posts 119 | Profile # |
| Gish is also really fun, and Samorost2 (the game that they added) is short but sweet. Haven't played too much of LugaruHD, and Penumbra yet, but I heard that it's worth $20 for Penumbra alone. |
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| onmach United States. May 12 2010 04:36. Posts 1241 | Profile Blog # |
| Penumbra is creeepy. I enjoyed it. I didn't buy the bundle, though, I got it a long time ago off steam. I think I heard this humble thing is only happening for another hour or so, so last chance. |
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| Tone_ United Kingdom. May 12 2010 11:18. Posts 550 | Profile # | |
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 travis United States. May 12 2010 11:21. Posts 20425 | Profile Blog # |
maybe they don't have a way to pay |
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| Tropics United Kingdom. May 12 2010 11:43. Posts 1126 | Profile # |
if you're only going to pay a penny its much better for them that you pirate
that way they're not paying for bandwidth or paypal transaction fees that would cost more than your penny |
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| Megaman703 Canada. May 12 2010 12:57. Posts 670 | Profile Blog # |
| There are lots of people that pirate just because it's more convenient than buying it, even buying it online. |
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| garbanzo United States. May 12 2010 13:22. Posts 2943 | Profile # |
On May 12 2010 11:21 travis wrote:maybe they don't have a way to pay
That's certainly possible, but I don't see why you would "buy" something you can't really afford. |
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| AtlaS United States. May 12 2010 13:38. Posts 987 | Profile Blog # |
| gave 15 bucks, don't have that much to spare but i don't want to screw over the developers for all their hard work. thanks for the link garbanzo |
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| [-Bluewolf-] United States. May 12 2010 23:56. Posts 519 | Profile Blog # |
On May 12 2010 11:43 Tropics wrote:if you're only going to pay a penny its much better for them that you pirate that way they're not paying for bandwidth or paypal transaction fees that would cost more than your penny
Please read the source articles and what I wrote. Now read it again. Do you now understand why your post is.... invalid to put it nicely?
I'll give you a hint: As they are downloading the bundle illegally directly from the humble bundle's servers (there is no DRM - that includes no DRM in the download to prevent unauthorized access), they save nothing on bandwidth.
The penny depends on the payment method chosen. Ideally, one is paying what they feel the bundle is worth, and hence I'd assume it would be difficult to rationalize the bundle not being worth at least $1 if someone intends to play it.Last edit: 2010-05-12 23:57:13 |
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| pettter Sweden. May 13 2010 00:46. Posts 895 | Profile # |
Let me first state that the project is awesome, I love it, and would gladly pay or donate money to get access.
However.
I am currently studying abroad, and have not had any reason before this to get an account for either PayPal, Google Checkout or Amazon (which are the three methods of payment they supply). Meaning I have to create a new account on either of these three services. I have heard too many horror stories about paypal to want to risk exposing my visa account to them, so they are right out. Hence, I tried making a google checkout account (they are not necessarily better, but at least they don't randomly freeze accounts to make money). With my swedish visa card. From south africa.
So yeah, that didn't work.
My guess is that amazon will turn out to be either of the two above things, unless I do something cheesy like proxy the connection via sweden to register, which is probably what I will do later tonight.
My point is, however, that there may be reasons other than 'being cheap/poor' for people not paying through their supplied means. |
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| [-Bluewolf-] United States. May 13 2010 00:53. Posts 519 | Profile Blog # |
On May 13 2010 00:46 pettter wrote:
Let me first state that the project is awesome, I love it, and would gladly pay or donate money to get access.
However.
I am currently studying abroad, and have not had any reason before this to get an account for either PayPal, Google Checkout or Amazon (which are the three methods of payment they supply). Meaning I have to create a new account on either of these three services. I have heard too many horror stories about paypal to want to risk exposing my visa account to them, so they are right out. Hence, I tried making a google checkout account (they are not necessarily better, but at least they don't randomly freeze accounts to make money). With my swedish visa card. From south africa.
So yeah, that didn't work.
My guess is that amazon will turn out to be either of the two above things, unless I do something cheesy like proxy the connection via sweden to register, which is probably what I will do later tonight.
My point is, however, that there may be reasons other than 'being cheap/poor' for people not paying through their supplied means.
This is a valid point, and one that the Humble Indie Bundle's creators do point out in their number crunching. However, lacking access to one of those three should be an unusual case that happens under rare circumstances - such as those you have outlined above. I doubt it causes a significant percentage of the numbers. Especially as one can also have a friend who has one of these three payment methods to make the payment (it allows for gifting of the bundle) and then reimburse them via some other means. |
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