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What strikes me is how low the average has dropped. This is pretty much what I thought would happen - seems Humble Bundle have basically ruined their brand name with the recent bundles and lost any kind of respect they had from those that would generally have chipped in a bit more. All they seem to be left with now are the scroungers.

A pity, because this is a great deal (although the inclusion of Brütal Legend in a main bundle is a bit puzzling). Good to finally see Trine 2 and Mark of the Ninja DRM-free for a change, although I imagine that we'll now see Trine 2 coming to GOG.
Post edited September 12, 2013 by jamyskis
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Kunovski: I was only slightly interested in Trine 2 and Mark of Ninja, but for the cost of 4 beers? can't resist really...
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Maighstir: For me, it's only the cost of one beer, why is it so expensive for you?

(No, I'm deliberately not accounting for the fact that beer prices differ)
ah, countries with expensive beer... I couldn't possibly live there for long...
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jamyskis: What strikes me is how low the average has dropped. This is pretty much what I thought would happen - seems Humble Bundle have basically ruined their brand name with the recent bundles and lost any kind of respect they had from those that would generally have chipped in a bit more. All they seem to be left with now are the scroungers.
Yeah, the fact that at the very moment 14(!) bundles are also running has probably nothing to do with that. The third overall bundle had the same average and the HIB 4 "only" 5.5$ average.

But yeah, it must be the THQ bundle that ruined it. Because no bundle after that made any good average.
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Kunovski: I was only slightly interested in Trine 2 and Mark of Ninja, but for the cost of 4 beers? can't resist really...
$4.50 for 4 beers? I assume you meant a bottled beer from a store, right? I still remember when a big one cost $0.80 in a pub, though :(.
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Kunovski: I was only slightly interested in Trine 2 and Mark of Ninja, but for the cost of 4 beers? can't resist really...
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Mivas: $4.50 for 4 beers? I assume you meant a bottled beer from a store, right? I still remember when a big one cost $0.80 in a pub, though :(.
sure, 4,5 bucks is about 80 Kč, so 4 beers... are you from Prague or something? :D
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Kunovski: are you from Prague or something? :D
That explains :D. Yeah, I'm from the capital.
Are you giving money to Phil Fish? :)
I was holding out on Mark of the Ninja in case it came to GOG.... but at that price and to help charity you just can't say no.
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grinninglich: Are you giving money to Phil Fish? :)
All of them.
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mondo84: However, at the risk of going OT again, it just reminds me how tough it must be for GOG to promote and sell indie games when most of them end up in bundles eventually, DRM-free and with Steam keys.
Yeah, and even the classic games nowadays appear on Steam and elsewhere. So I guess GOG could just as well close its doors, everyone buys all their games elsewhere nowadays.

/sarcasm

Anyway, as Amnesia proved, there are always quite a lot of people who don't routinely buy each time-limited Indie Bundle out there. So they are the people who may still buy the games _after_ the bundle is closed.

(And even if GOG really closed its door at some point... good thing then that they served to us DRM fanatics so at least we can keep playing the games (without DRM), huh? :))

Anyway, I bought the bundle mainly for Trine 2 and maybe Mark of the Ninja, but I hope to see them also on GOG, especially with the missing MotN DLC. At that point I am willing to buy them again from GOG.
Post edited September 12, 2013 by timppu
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mondo84: However, at the risk of going OT again, it just reminds me how tough it must be for GOG to promote and sell indie games when most of them end up in bundles eventually, DRM-free and with Steam keys.
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timppu: Yeah, and even the classic games nowadays appear on Steam and elsewhere. So I guess GOG could just as well close its doors, everyone buys all their games elsewhere nowadays.

/sarcasm
That's not at all what I was saying or implying. You took a simple observation extremely far out of context

I said GOG has extra competition with these games. I didn't say GOG should or will close its doors. In fact I'm not even sure how you draw such a strange interpretation from my post, even if you're being sarcastic.
Post edited September 12, 2013 by mondo84
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grinninglich: Are you giving money to Phil Fish? :)
I bought his game, so yes I did. It is only fair that he gets his share, as I am going to play it also. As long as you do not give a full split to charity, then I think anything else would be unethical.
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andysheets1975: Note that they've apparently changed the bonus games mechanism - You now have to beat the average to receive the bonus games, even if you buy in the first week.
Don't know why they waited so long to make this change. The previous system didn't make much sense. Not that I'm complaining, I got some extra games that way.
I don't have any of these but I'm short on spending cash because of a snafu with shipping something on eBay (entirely my fault, don't go hating) so I'll pick it up next Friday when my next check clears.
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mondo84: That's not at all what I was saying or implying. You took a simple observation extremely far out of context

I said GOG has extra competition with these games.
And I said GOG has extra competition with classic games too. Not sure if all this really means anything.