Humble Bundle Thread

Financial Panther said:
That and the fact that Brick & mortar stores considerably stopped carrying PC games to sell more console games.

People tend to have rose-colored glasses of the past and forget why and how Steam (and PC digital media) got big as it did and how stores like Gamestop reduced thir PC games selection for consoles.
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I'm not calling for DRM free shit, I don't care. I'm calling for retards to stop saying shit is DRM free when it isn't.

 
Financial Panther said:
LOL...Good luck with that :lol:

Maybe you can build a time machine and go back to that fabled time.

Otherwise the ONLY website I can think of that allows you to "share" your download link with whomever you desire and access it anytime without limits (didn't realize signing into GOG or Humble had limits) is Pirate Bay
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Bruticis is too old for torrenting. He keeps it retro by paying for Usenet access. ;)

 
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Bruticis said:
"As DRM-free as you can get" is still not DRM free. If it was truly DRM free you could share your download link with whom ever you desire and access it at anytime without any kind of limits, including a user name and password. DRM free is just a marketing buzz word to cater to hipster morons. You want DRM free, you get an old ass physical media like CD\DVD that has no activation or serials that installs without any extra shitware.
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I have the solution to your "DRM" problem.

Step 1: Sign into website like GOG or Humble

Step 2:Download the EXE

Step 3: Burn the EXE onto a blank "old ass physical media like CD/DVD" (Floppy for extra points!)

THERE DRM-FREE!

Why hasn't anyone thought of this? So easy! (no more signing into DRM promoting websites like GOG or Humble)

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Financial Panther said:
I have the solution to your "DRM" problem.

Step 1: Sign into website of GOG or Humble

Step 2:Download the EXE

Step 3: Burn the EXE onto a blank "old ass physical media like CD/DVD"

THERE DRM-FREE!

Why hasn't anyone thought of this? So easy!

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Sign in requires a user name and password, not DRM free. If you forget your credentials, you just lost access to your the stuff you paid for, not DRM free. Email reset, you say? Nope, it got hacked by dirty communists. You're locked out of your purchase to your "DRM FREE" stuff.

 
Bruticis said:
Sign in requires a user name and password, not DRM free. If you forget your credentials, you just lost access to your the stuff you paid for, not DRM free. Email reset, you say? Nope, it got hacked by dirty communists. You're locked out of your purchase to your "DRM FREE" stuff.
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You can also lose your "old ass physical media like CD/DVD" (you broke the disc, you lost it, it was stolen)

Then you lost the stuff you paid for.

What's your point?

Losing access to software is NOT exclusive to digital media. It also happens to physical media.

 
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Bruticis said:
My point is you don't know what DRM free is.
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HAHA...I think I do and you have no clue what DRM is

TAGE is DRM, Steam is DRM, signing into GOG or Humble to download a exe to install....NOT DRM

But hey, if you don't want to sign into the website everytime...I've already gave you a SOLUTION.

Step 1: Sign into website like GOG or Humble

Step 2:Download the EXE

Step 3: Burn the EXE onto a blank "old ass physical media like CD/DVD" (Floppy for extra points!)

DRM-FREE

 
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Financial Panther said:
Losing access to software is NOT exclusive to digital media. It also happens to physical media.
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Since you strike me as an extremely stupid person, I'll address your edit. You losing your media isn't a limitation that was setup or imposed by a Publisher/Distributor/Retailer. A user name and password IS a limitation setup by said parties.

 
Bruticis said:
Since you strike me as an extremely stupid person, I'll address your edit. You losing your media isn't a limitation that was setup or imposed by a Publisher/Distributor/Retailer. A user name and password IS a limitation setup by said parties.
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Nice, calling people names now. How is losing your user name and password a limitation setup by said parties?

You created the user name and password --Shouldn't you know it and not lose such info?

Is the Publisher/Distributor/Retailer changing your username and password so you lose your access to their website?

Now you are just grasping at straws here.

 
Financial Panther said:
Nice, calling people names now. How is losing your user name and password a limitation setup by said parties?

You created the user name and password --Shouldn't you know it and not lose such info?

Is the Publisher/Distributor/Retailer changing your username and password so you lose your access to their website?

Now you are just grasping at straws here.
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Those straws as you like to call them are what we in the real world call facts. It's a bitch, I know, but that's life.

 
Bruticis said:
Those straws as you like to call them are what we in the real world call facts. It's a bitch, I know, but that's life.
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Man I got you so MAD....lol. Since you seem pretty agitated and I have other things to do, I'll be the man let you have this semantic argument regarding the meaning of DRM.

Everyone! I have conceded to Bruticis and signing onto a website is NOW DRM.

Signing onto Humble = DRM

Signing onto GOG = DRM

Signing onto CAG = DRM

I'm sorry Bruticis...I was wrong and you are right. Here's a picture of a puppy as my part of my apology. For years, people far and wide will discuss the legend of Bruticis winning an Internet argument about DRM.

There argument settled...

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You must be new around here. I'm quite certain you didn't get me mad. Don't kid yourself, there was never an argument, just me applying education to another lost soul.

 
warreni said:
Why does your puppy look so sad?
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Because I type in "Sad puppy" for my image search

EDIT: Also puppy is sad about what ultimately is a pointless Internet argument about the semantics on DRM.

Bruticis said:
You must be new around here. I'm quite certain you didn't get me mad. Don't kid yourself, there was never an argument, just me applying education to another lost soul.
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Sure, whatever make you feel better man. Internet tough guy is TOO tough for me.

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Bruticis said:
Since you strike me as an extremely stupid person, I'll address your edit. You losing your media isn't a limitation that was setup or imposed by a Publisher/Distributor/Retailer. A user name and password IS a limitation setup by said parties.
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Wow.

You really are absolutely worthless.

 
Financial Panther said:
Man I got you so MAD....lol. Since you seem pretty agitated and I have other things to do, I'll be the man let you have this semantic argument regarding the meaning of DRM.

Everyone! I have conceded to Bruticis and signing onto a website is NOW DRM.

Signing onto Humble = DRM

Signing onto GOG = DRM

Signing onto CAG = DRM

I'm sorry Bruticis...I was wrong and you are right. Here's a picture of a puppy as my part of my apology. For years, people far and wide will discuss the legend of Bruticis winning an Internet argument about DRM.

There argument settled...

sp3.jpg
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um where mysterd when we need him lol drm mysterd come out now

 
Lol, you guys, it's not like we all live together and our opinions affect one another. Bruticis is always a bigot, just put him on your ignore list if you don't want to read it.
 
Blade said:
Lol, you guys, it's not like we all live together and our opinions affect one another. Bruticis is always a bigot, just put him on your ignore list if you don't want to read it.
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And risk missing out on my random crap dumps in the steam thread? Doesn't seem likely, piggies got eat.

 
New Humble Books Bundle - Oni Press:

  • Buzz!, Vol. 1
  • The Sixth Gun, Vol. 1
  • Letter 44, Vol. 1
  • Bad Machinery, Vol. 1
  • Sketch Monsters, Vol. 1
  • I Was The Cat #1
  • The Auteur #1
Beat the Average for:

  • Courtney Crumin, Vol. 1
  • Capote in Kansas
  • Diesel Sweeties, Vol. 1
  • Helheim, Vol. 1
  • Megagogo, Vol. 1
  • The Bunker, Vol. 1
  • Down Set Fight
Pay $15 or more for:

  • Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1
  • Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2
  • Stumptown, Vol. 1
  • Lost At Sea
New Humble Mobile Bundle 8 BTA Unlocks:

  • Mikey Hooks
  • EPOCH
  • Zombie Gunship
New Humble Store sales:

 
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Not that I care, but there's a distinction to be made here:

The process of buying a game through Humble is not without restrictions, as Bruticis points out. It's all still held behind a gate. 

The files themselves contain no DRM. Once you download them, you can burn a thousand copies of it if you like. They are using a gated process to allow you access to a DRM-free game. It's all in how it is worded.

You wouldn't say that a store selling DRM-free games is a form of DRM. It's a process of payment and distribution. 

 
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The Sifu said:
New Humble Books Bundle - Oni Press:

  • Buzz!, Vol. 1
  • The Sixth Gun, Vol. 1
  • Letter 44, Vol. 1
  • Bad Machinery, Vol. 1
  • Sketch Monsters, Vol. 1
  • I Was The Cat #1
  • The Auteur #1
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That is a decent mix of introductions for a penny. The only way you could get it cheaper is by pirating it. Y'know, DRM-free copies. ;)

 
hal said:
Not that I care, but there's a distinction to be made here:

The process of buying a game through Humble is not without restrictions, as Bruticis points out. It's all still held behind a gate.

The files themselves contain no DRM. Once you download them, you can burn a thousand copies of it if you like. They are using a gated process to allow you access to a DRM-free game. It's all in how it is worded.

You wouldn't say that a store selling DRM-free games is a form of DRM. It's a process of payment and distribution.
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So after you pay, you can access your files at anytime without ANY restriction such as a login, right?

 
Bruticis said:
So after you pay, you can access your files at anytime without ANY restriction such as a login, right?
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Well, yes, that's what FP was trying to explain earlier. You can log in, download your files, archive them to a disc, and you never have to log in again for any reason, unless you want to buy more things from that site.
 
Bruticis said:
So after you pay, you can access your files at anytime without ANY restriction such as a login, right?
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warreni said:
Well, yes, that's what FP was trying to explain earlier. You can log in, download your files, archive them to a disc, and you never have to log in again for any reason, unless you want to buy more things from that site.
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Yeah, man. Download it. Put it on a stack of floppies and stack them in the corner for all eternity.

 
hal said:
Yeah, man. Download it. Put it on a stack of floppies and stack them in the corner for all eternity.
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What if my floppies are in a house fire and forgot my login info and my email was hacked by a ruthless gang of Chinese hackers?

 
hal said:
Not that I care, but there's a distinction to be made here:

The process of buying a game through Humble is not without restrictions, as Bruticis points out. It's all still held behind a gate.

The files themselves contain no DRM. Once you download them, you can burn a thousand copies of it if you like. They are using a gated process to allow you access to a DRM-free game. It's all in how it is worded.

You wouldn't say that a store selling DRM-free games is a form of DRM. It's a process of payment and distribution.
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Technically you cared enough to post a reply but if that's the case you are trying to make in terms of defining DRM, how would you buy digital items online without a "gate" such as an account & password from a practical standpoint? How would a store like Humble or GoG know who has purchased what without such "gate." Again, anyone is welcome to download the DRM-free game once and burn it onto a DVD and never sign-in again to the account. Even forums like CAG requires one to create an user account to post here.

You are correct in that I wouldn't say that a store selling DRM-free games is a form of DRM. I also would argue that Humble or GoG is also a store selling DRM-free games. Payment is just processed online and the product is distributed online because you are buying a digital item.

The problem with PC games is that brick-and-motor stores have a have essentially given up the PC gamer market to digital storefronts like Steam. So even if you want to go back to the "Good-old-days" of "CD and floppy" with no serial keys, no publisher or developer is going back to that. Especially when there is absolutely no repercussion for pirating software.

Anyway, its a semantic issue and I was focusing just on the games themselves hosted on Humble/GOG being DRM-free. Maybe someone else can think of a practical way of organizing one's digital account with purchased software without the use of account login system.
 
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hal said:
Then you'd be fucked. That's the beauty of DRM-free!


Envelopes, cash, and a CD.
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So this except pay someone to do steps 1,2,3 for you. Pretty sure you can get someone from the CAG trade forum to do that if the price is right. Most likely illegally without permission from the Publisher but it can be done ;)

Step 1: Sign into website like GOG or Humble

Step 2:Download the EXE

Step 3: Burn the EXE onto a blank "old ass physical media like CD/DVD" (Floppy for extra points!)

DRM-FREE
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Got excited for Scott Pilgrim comics, then remembered that they literally go for $0.01 on Amazon.  In for a dollar I guess.

 
Yogscast and Humble have partnered to create a store. It's basically the Humble Store with a Yogscast skin. I have no plans to add a section to the OP, but I guess if there are different sales there they can go in this thread.

link

 
louiedog said:
Yogscast and Humble have partnered to create a store. It's basically the Humble Store with a Yogscast skin. I have no plans to add a section to the OP, but I guess if there are different sales there they can go in this thread.

link
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I'm going to pretend that doesn't exist and you never posted it

 
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