Ok, so I'm not very familiar with Dawn of War and its variations... According to Wikipedia, DoW GotY comes with a few extra maps when compared to vanilla and Gold Edition comes with DoW GotY + Winter Assault. So this is an inferior version of the DoW Steam sells in their store (which is Gold edition)?

Ugh. This bundle is really annoying me because the games are not complete, they lack the DLC and expansions. Sure, I understand that THQ is trying to use this as a launchpad to sell their add-on content, but it makes me irritated anyways.

Yes, it is. THQ has apparently found a way to further cash in on the bundle and so they only sell the base game. As far as DoW goes tho, you still get a fairly solid campaign (even tho Winter Assault's is waaay better, not to mention Dark Crusade)

People are not willing to pay as much for a big company as for some indie devs. Unsurprising.

Or people aren't willing to pay as much for Steam titles as for DRM-free games.
We'll never know.

And if I remember correctly, you thought it would be the highest-grossing Humble Bundle ever, so you should at least be a little surprised.

Well... Mac and Linux did make up quite a big portion (1/3?) of HIB sales, I'd look for a problem there personally.

edit: It's 1/4, I've just checked in prior statistics.

editedit: You know, considering that, this is the best selling bundle for Windows.

Seems like a combination of reasons why the THQ bundle might not sell as well as HIB.

But still, $4.3 million is no small chunk of change.

DoW Gold Edition includes Winter Assault which is a REALLY good expansion.

Dark Crusade was actually a standalone expansion that didn't require the base game or expansion to play. I bought the Gold Edition in one of the sales or daily deals and picked up Dark Crusade a few month after in another sale for about £2, so it worked out pretty cheap in total.

I should imagine you will see all the DoW games in one of the first days of the upcoming Winter Sale on Steam.

Highest selling.

Considering the circumstances, this was a very position for the bundle.

All of the games have been heavily discounted several times before. Also, apart from Saints Row the third, those were all rather old games.

This effectively means that this bundle was mostly interesting for people who either wanted Steam keys of games they already had (like me) or people who weren't interested in those games before. Both groups won't be willing to give much. Even I only paid 10$, which is the lowest I ever paid for any humble bundle.

Comparing this to the HIB V is just silly. The HIB 5 were 8 different highly liked developers. And even then it only scored a 3$ higher average. Bundles by single companies always have a low average (Humble Introversion Bundle had $ 4, the Frozenbyte had $5. Even the Mojam bundle (also highly regarded dev) only had as much as THQ. Now let's take a look at the highest average bundle. Which was the book bundle. Roughly 15$ average on this one. What is the difference? Books were all written by a single author. A high personalisation which, like with the indie developers, leads to people willing to give more. And this considering that ebooks are usually cheaper than games, which means it wasn't the higher "perceived value".

If DRM was a factor, it was a negligent one. Because people bought the game, but not paid much. If the DRM would bother people, they wouldn't buy the bundle.

Wait, seriously?

No.
Winter assault is included in DoW GOLD.
The GOTY is the same as the vanilla, with a few extra multiplayer skirmish maps.

Well, that sucks hairy balls. I mean, that was actually worse than the Titan Quest business since Steam doesn't sell the vanilla/GotY nor the Winter Assault separately.

Had I know this before, I wouldn't have activated that key and instead would've bought the DoW games in a generous sale or something. But doing so now... I dunno, feels like a waste. :p

Well, according to this, windows users are always the cheapsakes, with Mac Users paying about 50% and Linux users often about 100% more. Note that I'm not basing these numbers or anything but a guess based on what I've seen in the stats.

Not when we're talking about the low average. Because there are a lot of people who don't boycott DRM entirely, but instead games with DRM just have a very, very low value for them - they will buy the Bundle, because they want the games, but they won't pay much for it because it has DRM.