it would be a bit silly to keep the option to give tips, if they also gave all the tips to charity....

If you did not want to give humble any tip, then you could give 100% to charity.It was up to you. It is why it is called tips and not payment.

So, not sure what there is to complain about...


On the rest of the bundle - HS sells AAA games, Wahey! HS uses regional blocks, Boooo! It is Antichamber's debut on Humble - get it!

What does that have to do with anything?

That is true, IIRC, humble guys kept their tip even though the bundle wasn't even DRM free, so it wasn't to cover the bandwidth costs rather to fill their pockets.

Not going to bash them for wanting to earn some buck, but it's still funny how it was EA who got the hate for the bundle... (the most succesful bundle of all time :P)

Well to be honest, it would be rather hypocrytical to find any other service which takes money off their customers and doesn't donate them to charity fine (like GOG!), yet not apply the same terms to HB. As for costs, of course it cost them something, and I for one don't believe anyone can call them greedy - I mean, the default split of the humble store is 75% to dev, 10% to HS and 10% to charity, whereas industry standard is currently about 70% to devs and 30% to retailer

and 5% to me?

I noticed that games in the Humble Store only have one version available, even if multiple ones are at the dev's site. For example, Gunpoint - only the basic version was listed on the store, but all the other versions were still available at the dev's site... with the same discount.

I don't like that about the store. I'm sorry, but it's pretty half-assed.

Every tom dick and harry KNEW the EA bundle would be a big seller just as THQ one would be huge as well. EA donates to charity. HB keeps mum on the tips. HB has been smart in its moves.

I agree with that, but to me it seems it is not obvious with HiB games, you have to try them to find it out whether extra installation is needed (or whether you need to create the game launch shortcuts yourself, manually move the files to the directory where you like to keep your runnable games, etc.).

IIRC, HiB has all different variations and combinations depending on the game:

- normal standalone exe-installers
- sometimes msi-installers
- exe-installers which are zipped
- ready-to-be run files, zipped

and probably others I am forgetting. And IIRC using different kinds of installers for different kinds of games. And of course the various ways of naming the installers or zip files, sometimes quite obscurely.

I can understand that. You are acting on principles. I just want to express my opinion that most people probably make a difference if the cut is large or small. It means that the size of the cut for most people matters too.

But as I said there is more than just the cut. Service matters too. Or GOG could lower their cuts. And finally I could say that the middlemen also makes something, so they have earned a reasonable cut. But what is a reasonable cut? Highly debatable topic.

What if a game from Humble Store for Linux doesn't really work well on many Linuxes because Humble Store never checked that? That would be bad. I would rather pay a higher cut to someone who actually checks that before.

Let's wait and see how this develops. Maybe Humble Store might have some unique advantages over GOG by offering Linux compatibility and lower cuts (although 5% isn't that much) and if they otherwise match GOG (price wise, service wise, DRM wise) then I could imagine they get more famous than GOG in the end. But maybe GOG adds Linux compatibility and lowers the cuts and offers better prices or better service or more DRM free games, then GOG will probably stay ahead.

With every new competitor it's an open race.


I also don't understand that. I generally do not follow bundles but I remember having heard of this one and I thought, well at least for a little bit they are doing it right. What happened to "give credit where credit is due".

Hmm, am I missing something or are there no new deals today on the Store?

They just popped up for me this minute.

Ah, thanks, same here. Figured they might be lagging with the Weekly going live at the same time.

Something I just noticed (and after a bit of web-browsing) GOG seems to be the only one selling Dust, Pixeljunk Monsters, and System Shock 2 - I don't count GG's workaround - completely DRM-free. All three of them are Steam keys only on Humble.

Not trying to prove or disprove anything. As said, just something I noticed.

So I guess that's it with the Humble Store opening sale? Today's offers seem like repeats and apparantly they will last until the weekend is over, so no new offers tomorrow ...