Yeah, let me weigh in on this, since I've worked with Marcin on presentations where he's made similar arguments: what he's saying is not "don't collect games." A lot of you guys do that and enjoy it. Rather, it's a matter of "don't buy games you don't want just because they're on sale."

I think it's easy enough to see, "Oh, that's 85% off so I'll pick it up even though I really don't like that game, or genre, or publisher." And I do think if you're buying a game only because it's on a crazy sale despite no interest in it whatsoever that the steep discounting of games is working against both you and the people who made and published that game.

That said, if owning and curating a collection of games is your thing and you can get a bigger and more comprehensive collection because you got game "X" on sale, more power to you. Then you're getting exactly what you want out of those sales, regardless of whether you play the games or not, and saving yourself a mint to boot.

The message may have gotten a bit mixed up there, and since I'm the guy who proofs these things, it's more my fault than anyone else's. Call it 'operator error' on my part, and my apologies.

I would say no, personally. Some of the best games you pick up are because it was cheap to try, so there wasn't much skin in the game, but I think there's a personal meter you need to use there. For me it's the "what if this thing I'm kind of interested in is terrible? Will I feel ripped off?" If so, then I'd suggest you strive mightily to fight the forces of "must buy!" in case everything does not work out a nicely as you'd hope.

For example, I jumped on the last HIB expressly for Avadon on Android. The other games? I knew absolutely nothing about. I paid 15 bucks for the pack and, for Avadon, that's enough for me. Canabault was a fun little addition to that bundle which (shockingly) I'd never played before. It wasn't worth $15 by itself, no, but it's a discovery I never would have made without the HIB.

However, I've picked up another bundle of indie games before--no, I shan't say which--that had only games I found broken and uninspiring. I only paid $10 for that, and doubt I got even that meagre recompense of entertainment back out of it. I wouldn't say I regretted the purchase, but I only bought the games because they were "pay what I want." None of them were in a particularly interesting genre for me, but I bit anyway, purely on price.

Ah, well. :)

EDIT: Yes, I could have paid a dollar for the second bundle of games, but there's "thrifty", and there's "cheap", and then there's "you skinflint!" I make enough money where I'd feel guilty paying a buck for a bundle of games.

The new design is wicked. I can take a miniscule amount of credit for it, because I told Destro, "You should do something cool with the newspost images." And he did.