SLP2000: You are free to wait to buy games on HIB...
yinan: Yeah I know..Last week about Alan Wake which already bought in GOG about $7,5 when 70% and now this, Maybe tomorrow little by little ALL GOG Game will appear in Humbe Bundle which I thinK very bad for Indie game value...
These types of bundles are bad for how people perceive the value of all games, not just Indie games. These sales are great for the buyer... 7 Telltale games for just around (currently) $4? But it's really bad for the industry as a whole, since buyers start to get used to paying next to nothing for games. In the short term, Telltale will probably make a good amount of money from this bundle. But long term? People will be waiting for their next sale, or buying games by someone else in a current one. Meanwhile, even 50% or 75% off sales don't look all that attractive, anymore. And people end up having more games than they can ever find time to play, anyway. So the cycle continues, where game companies feel like they have to be in a cheap bundle in order to sell their games.
If Telltale had priced this bundle at $20, that's still just $2.86 per game, which is still a great deal, since some of the games in this bundle are normally over $20 each when not on sale. Selling them for $4 (or even $1, if you don't want The Walking Dead), is simply not the best long-term strategy, in my opinion. Might as well give them away.