PincushionMan: Origin is NOT DRM free at all.

In my experience, most of the games have activation limits (SecuROM?) that require you to de-authorize a machine before you can move it to another one.

For example:
Popcap games - used to have a 5 activation limit when they were their own company. Don't know about today, probably 3 now.

Sims 3 - 3 activation limit (appears to be controllable from the Sims 3 launcher)

Burnout Paradise, Battlefield series, Call of Duty, Red Alert, Mass Effect, Spore - 3 activation limit (you must download a tool to report deleted and de-authorized. back to a server. If you forget to run the tool or don't know about it - Too Bad, you are SOL) I suppose if you complain they *may* reset the activation limit... or they may remove the game from your inventory and tell you to buy it again. Dunno. I suspect their support may do it like Steam, not helping at all with activation issues. Some of the listed games have activation servers that will be pulled after a while. Also EA, in Origin's T&Cs reserves the right to pull old (or unactivatable) games from your account.

TL;DR - Buying from Origin === Caveat Emptor. I don't mind the On the House games, I just understand I'm getting up to 3 rentals. The games are theirs, and they are sharing.

HypersomniacLive: Not sure if you know this, but if you log in to IR with your Desura credentials, every bundle you've redeemed on Desura will appear in your collection under that account.

HypersomniacLive: I've stumbled upon this issue a few times when purchasing bundles - a couple of times with BIaB bundles, once with a Groupees bundle and a couple with HIBs. I don't know what causes the issue because if I use a different browser or try on a different time/ day, I get all available options, including paying with a card without a PayPal account. IIRC, a GOGer from Finland has experienced it too.

IAmSinistar: Not to muddy the waters, but IndieRoyale didn't accept my old password for their site. I had to request a reset from them to change it. Maybe this caused other problems as well?

IAmSinistar: Hurm. Are you sending it to yourself as a gift on a future date? Then yes, it might be the weird chain of events you describe. But if you send it to someone else, it should be all the games. Unless the delivery date is before the end of the offer, in which case it will probably be whatever games are available, with the rest being revealed later.

In other words it should work just like a normal purchase, only with the key to activate the purchase being sent at whatever date, instead of immediately.

HypersomniacLive: Not sure if you know this, but if you log in to IR with your Desura credentials, every bundle you've redeemed on Desura will appear in your collection under that account.

I always purchase IR bundles as gifts under a different email from my Desura one, so that my purchases and my Desura account aren't linked. And I access the pages for the direct downloads logged out.

HypersomniacLive: I've stumbled upon this issue a few times when purchasing bundles - a couple of times with BIaB bundles, once with a Groupees bundle and a couple with HIBs. I don't know what causes the issue because if I use a different browser or try on a different time/ day, I get all available options, including paying with a card without a PayPal account. IIRC, a GOGer from Finland has experienced it too.

Grargar: New IndieGameStand deal.

Star Nomad. Beat the average for Ninja Girl: RPG Defense.

superstande: That all sounds horrible :)

BlackThorny: So why NOT link them together? I don't have an account an IR yet, and I thought that using my Desura account can spare me another registration, am I doing something wrong here?

BlackThorny: ...This time they offer me a date, so I thought it be cool to send it directly on someone's birthday - but that birthday is months from now and I might regret by that time and rather send it earlier...

madth3: - Huntsman: The Orphanage

Cyraxpt: Fancy Skulls that looks my kind of game (i'm a sucker for procedural random permadeath stuff), did anyone tried it?

IAmSinistar: Shame this isn't DRM-free, as it's one I'd like to play. Is this to be the only one which is not DRM-free in the bundle? I believe there was a posting saying only one would be so.

madth3: Quite the opposite. I posted from an IndieRoyal email that there will be one game not in Steam.