Really only interested in the Two Train Games - Anyone know if these are all in one code?

Haven't bought it, but I'm pretty sure they're separate.

Yeah and no crappy ToS begging you not to gift extra keys and encouraging anal-retentive peeps to chastise other peeps for violating their rulez. HB needs to grow up and join the actual bundle business in the way it has developed. Go Bundle Stars, IndieGala, Groupees et al!

I couldn't say. I couldn't get the game to work correctly at all due to my screen resolution. That includes being able to see setting options. Which is why I got a refund and the game removed from my GamersGate account. Try looking on the Steam forums for it.

I'm pretty sure it does support something like that. But you'll have to check their blog or the Steam forums to confirm as I don't have access to that hardware (can't buy it here).
All of their bundles I've purchased so far have had individual keys for each game/DLC. This should be no different but I haven't bought it yet (might do after I'm paid).

Yeah, personally I think they have a misperception that it causes loss of revenue or whatever. A large number of the keys are probably never ever redeemed anyway and so money was received for nothing to some degree of games that wont ever get played. Also, would someone who used spare keys from one person's bundle have actually bought the bundle themselves, or bought the actual games individually? Some may have but I doubt it is an earth shattering percentage really. Plus, people enjoying the bundles will tell others who many of which wiil buy them too. Take away the incentive for people to buy and you take away their incentive to do word of mouth free advertising as well. ;o)

CD Project RED's CEO could teach them a thing or too I think. You can't prevent piracy, and you can't prevent people sharing things legally that they want to share either. You can put up walls and try to control people, but a wise man once said something to the effect of "The Internet comfortably detects and routes around censorship." (paraphrase). I think the same is true for copy protection, and more widely with everyday consumer choice based on the terms we agree or are bound under when doing business.

Years ago I started buying all of my games because I perceived it to be more convenient for the time I had available compared to borrowing or other options. Then I bought some Ubisoft Tom Clancy games, in particular the entire Splinter Cell series, Rainbow Six series, and Ghost Recon series up to circa 2007. Brand new games in brand new unopened boxes. I installed them on my computer over time, and I live alone so nobody could ever have access to my license keys which I kept in the boxes and in storage. In short, it is impossible for anyone to have stolen my keys due to any carelessness on my part. When I went to play the games online multiplayer, shortly after starting a game I was disconnected for having an invalid CD key. Contacting Ubisoft led to them telling me my key was in use by many computers and was disabled and basically "tough luck". They didn't really care what I had to say and obviously did not trust their honest paying customers. The Internet is ripe with thousands of people with similar stories of almost all of their games post 2006.

Two of my friends who also bought the same games had the exact same problems too! We ended up having to hack the game to disable the copy protection and use a VPN to play online with additional latency and hassles. It would have been 1000 times easier to just pirate the game.

Instead, I chose to never buy Ubisoft games again if they contained any DRM. I buy some from GOG DRM-free, but aside from that I wont buy Ubisoft products again knowingly. Had similar experiences and conclusions with EA Games. These things are a large part of why I'm here today. GOG provided the product that I want and at a fair price and so I am here. I think GOG understands their customers and has built a big following as a result. CD Project RED also clearly adopts this philosophy above them too, and so they've got my loyal support as well.

When businesses misunderstand their customers and aim to seek profit above all else and at the expense of the customer's freedom, flexibility, and trust - they will ultimately lose their customers to other companies that offer a better product or service. It might not happen overnight, but eventually people move on to better things I believe.

I'm going to stick to Bundlestars and Indiegala for now I think and only get other bundles after seeing GOG folks advertise what they got for the money, the terms, how many keys, experiences good or bad, etc. There are so many options to choose from now that a bad move by one company really hurts them more than it hurts anyone else right? :)

We've got our options! Power in numbers! :P

All bundles 25% OFF for this weekend: http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/ ^_^

Too bad they don't have the Sims bundle anymore... dammit! :/

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Yes, the facebook rewierment was only in the alpha stages of the bundle. There is no such things now.

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Actually, I didn't miss any point. I agree that such liking and sharing of things is annoying so I simply choose not to engage in that behaviour as I consider what I get or more often have a very longshot chance of getting in return for liking/sharing something to be of very low value or such incredibly bad odds (such as giveaway contests) that they're not worth it to me even if it didn't end up annoying other people. However if they were actually more beneficial, one could set up a friend list with just a bunch of giveaway pages on it, and share that stuff within the group so that real friends never see it, but the giveaway group itself sees that it was shared. Even that is too much effort for me to be bothered though.

My point though, is simply that advertising is a fact of life and that includes promotions where companies try to get word of mouth around. I can simply choose to ignore such advertising and not lose any sleep over it. At the same time, if a company is offering a really good deal on something that is of real value for the price, then I certainly may want to take advantage of the deal, especially if I've had great experiences in past business dealings with the same company.

They can post gigantic animated billboards on every telephone pole to advertise their wares and it doesn't matter at all to me as I'll probably never see it. I do see some of the things on Facebook as I've signed up for the notifications, but if it annoys me enough it's trivial for me to simply unsubscribe from the notifications.

That's how it is for me though, and others are certainly free to have their own opinions of equal value even if they differ from mine. There's no right or wrong, just what works for the individual. Bundlestars awesome prices and game offerings definitely work for me though. ;)

One of those bundles has Blades of Time Limited Edition (for me) and Puzzle Kingdoms (for my mum) which would be ok. What happens with the other games I have no interest in? Looks like they are steam keys? So no DRM-Free versions?

You could likely trade the keys you're not interested in, GOG has a classified section. This is assuming the bundle site does not request you keep the keys to yourself, and I don't think any of them do anymore.

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