Humble Bundle Thread

Neuro5i5 said:
Someone put ebooks in my games. This is like a Reese's Cup with mustard instead of peanut butter.
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and poop instead of chocolate

But I wouldn't know BECAUSE I'M BLIND!

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IronChariot said:
It was less than $10 earlier, and it's now $10.66. Don't know why anyone would pay that much for these books.
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The first Humble Ebook bundle had an average of $14.28.

The second had an average of $10.90.

Both of those averages were with the second week bonuses available to all first week buyers, even cheapskates who went less than a $1 for a non-game bundle.

The Ebook bundles have done just fine for Humble. Certainly better for them to run an Ebook bundle than to take a week or so off.
 
Just have a different bundle for that crap. It's not like habitual book buyers flock to the Humble site every Tuesday and Thursday looking for book bundles...

 
mabman said:
Just have a different bundle for that crap. It's not like habitual book buyers flock to the Humble site every Tuesday and Thursday looking for book bundles...
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Don't you see? Humble is just trying to give sales to the smaller sites. It's so sweet of them to support the competition like that.

Edit: Forgot the font.

 
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gilby said:
The first Humble Ebook bundle had an average of $14.28.

The second had an average of $10.90.

Both of those averages were with the second week bonuses available to all first week buyers, even cheapskates who went less than a $1 for a non-game bundle.

The Ebook bundles have done just fine for Humble. Certainly better for them to run an Ebook bundle than to take a week or so off.
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I'm not against them running an eBook bundle, I just think the price is awfully high.

 
mabman said:
Just have a different bundle for that crap. It's not like habitual book buyers flock to the Humble site every Tuesday and Thursday looking for book bundles...
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Ah, but Humble would sure like them to. Why settle for a customer base of PC game buyers when you can have a customer base of PC game buyers, music buyers, movie buyers, book buyers, Android app buyers and more?

IronChariot said:
I'm not against them running an eBook bundle, I just think the price is awfully high.
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Again, that first ebook bundle had an average of $14.28. There were no tricks like a third tier to raise that average. Ebook buyers are crazy from the point of view of us CAGs. That probably explains why Humble would love to have them as customers more often. Even better if some of them stick around and overpay (from our point of view) for PC games, too.


asheskitty said:
Since it takes the place of a game bundle, I'm against it. If they want to run a book bundle/music bundle/porn bundle, fine, but do it in parallel.
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Wouldn't that be the point of the weekly?

Agreed that I'd much rather see game bundles, but on the other hand Humble has released a ton of bundles with a ton of games over the past half-year or so. Breaks between bundles are almost entirely a thing of the past. I don't know that there are enough games available for Humble to run a two-week PC game bundle every two weeks while also running a weekly PC game bundle.
 
IronChariot said:
That would be better.

Jesus, that's insane. Guess I missed out, then.
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Yeah, I was there when it happened. I called shenanigans then and I'm calling shenanigans now. I still think it was Humble trying to jack up the average, as I wouldn't put it past them at this point. The link went nowhere, why would you pay for advertising for a link that goes nowhere?

 
gilby said:
Wouldn't that be the point of the weekly?

Agreed that I'd much rather see game bundles, but on the other hand Humble has released a ton of bundles with a ton of games over the past half-year or so. Breaks between bundles are almost entirely a thing of the past. I don't know that there are enough games available for Humble to run a two-week PC game bundle every two weeks while also running a weekly PC game bundle.
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No. The weekly is some side shenanigan where they can shovel out more stuff and PWYW as long as it's $1 or $6.

Also quite simply, I'm not going to read a book (especially e-book) because I got it cheap. I've got libraries where I can easily borrow books that actually appeal to me.

There are plenty fo games... 50-75 new greenlit games every week. If they get in a tough spot they can always ask us to throw money at TIm Schafer again.

 
asheskitty said:
No. The weekly is some side shenanigan where they can shovel out more stuff and PWYW as long as it's $1 or $6.

Also quite simply, I'm not going to read a book (especially e-book) because I got it cheap. I've got libraries where I can easily borrow books that actually appeal to me.
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Well, yeah. I don't think you (or I) are who they are aiming it. I think Ebook buyers seem way too eager to shell out money. Even if they weren't, it still just makes sense for Humble to make a play for new pools of customers. I just can't get mad about it. I feel kinda like Michael Corleone did about Tessio's betrayal: "It's the smart move."

There are plenty fo games... 50-75 new greenlit games every week. If they get in a tough spot they can always ask us to throw money at TIm Schafer again.
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Again? They're still doing that right now: https://www.humblebundle.com/double-fine Hurry! Less than two weeks left!

 
BobbyTastic said:
Yeah, I was there when it happened. I called shenanigans then and I'm calling shenanigans now. I still think it was Humble trying to jack up the average, as I wouldn't put it past them at this point. The link went nowhere, why would you pay for advertising for a link that goes nowhere?
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For that matter, why would you jack up the price for everyone else and leave a link to your site thinking it'd be good for business?

 
BobbyTastic said:
Yeah, I was there when it happened. I called shenanigans then and I'm calling shenanigans now. I still think it was Humble trying to jack up the average, as I wouldn't put it past them at this point. The link went nowhere, why would you pay for advertising for a link that goes nowhere?
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I have to correct myself actually, apparently the link actually did go live recently. It's legit, so now I get to embrace that I was wearing a tinfoil hat over Paypal just being idiots.

YOU WIN AGAIN, HUMBLE.

hal said:
For that matter, why would you jack up the price for everyone else and leave a link to your site thinking it'd be good for business?
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I get why (to remain at the top of the donors list that everybody can see when on the main page, as well as having a tax write-off and good PR for donating such a large amount "to charity"), but yeah, if you think about it.. that's not going to make any Humble customers happy.

 
Yeah I mean it's pretty much like gee thanks Paypal sale guys for making a cheap set of ebooks really expensive. I feel so motivated to go to your sale now. :roll:

I really hope this doesn't start a trend of 'advertisers' jacking the averages way up on Humble Bundles.

Then I'd have to rush and lock in a bundle average at a penny shortly after it starts and it would start to feel like Indie Royale catch it at the beginning or pay too much BS all over again.

 
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BobbyTastic said:
I get why (to remain at the top of the donors list that everybody can see when on the main page, as well as having a tax write-off and good PR for donating such a large amount "to charity"), but yeah, if you think about it.. that's not going to make any Humble customers happy.
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Isn't going to make us CAGs and the like happy, sure. I'd guess it's good PR overall, though, given the list of top contributors for about every bundle generally includes such advertising. Go through your old Humble bundles and you can see the top ten contributors for each.

 
gilby said:
Isn't going to make us CAGs and the like happy, sure. I'd guess it's good PR overall, though, given the list of top contributors for about every bundle generally includes such advertising. Go through your old Humble bundles and you can see the top ten contributors for each.
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no love for the lowest contributors, one of us might actually make that list.

 
Decided to pass on Sega bundle.  Even though $2 each for Typing, Hell Yeah, and BD is a good deal it's the principal of not really wanting/already have four other games in there that ruins it!

 
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