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N.B. Humble has been as much a traditional retailer as it has been a charity focused pwyw shop for quite a while. As well as no longer caring if games are cros

N.B. Humble has been as much a traditional retailer as it has been a charity focused pwyw shop for quite a while. As well as no longer caring if games are cross platform. I mean I still shop there because it's as good a retailer as any but they are no longer significantantly different than GOG or Steam.

thristian 9y ago
At the very least, GOG is an independent game retailer. For most of the games you'll see on the Humble Store, what you actually get is just a Steam key for that game. There's a few indie games where they've funded porting work for one of the Humble Indie Bundles, but I doubt many of those are exclusive to the Humble Store.
- paulmd 9y ago
  I was looking through today's GOG sales and I saw they've started to introduce DRM on some of their titles, so buyer beware, they're starting to go downhill too. https://www.gog.com/game/aliens_versus_predator_classic_2000 https://www.gog.com/game/aliens_versus_predator_classic_2000
  - icebraining 9y ago
    Eh, I'm not sure that I consider controlling access to their servers the same as DRM. The lack of LAN multiplayer is bad, but is GOG responsible for that?
    - makomk 9y ago
      From what I can tell, the original retail release had support for LAN play, direct connections, and various third-party server browser options, all of which they removed so they could lock multiplayer behind a DRM wall that requires the GOG Galaxy client.
      - icebraining 9y ago
        Right, but the game wasn't released by, or even exclusively on GOG; it's also on Steam, for example. So I doubt the decision was theirs. And while it may suck, I don't think it can be considered DRM.
ehsankia 9y ago
I honestly had completely forgotten about their charity contributions. In my mind they had become another digital game shop. I'm curious, does it say somewhere what the total amount they have contributed to charity over all the years? EDIT: Found it on wikipedia: > By September 2017, the total charitable amount raised by the Bundles exceeded $100 million across 50 different charities. That is pretty impressive.
Freak_NL 9y ago
> As well as no longer caring if games are cross platform. As a Linux gamer, the fact that some of the non-Humble Indie Bundles contain games I can't run is annoying (I am fine with these being offered, just don't mail me about them unless I can run them), but the Humble Indie Bundles tend to contain exclusively or nearly exclusively cross-platform games, like they always have.
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  Steam too annoys me in this respect, would be nice to have the option to hide all promotions (and indeed content) about games one can't run.

thristian 9y ago

At the very least, GOG is an independent game retailer. For most of the games you'll see on the Humble Store, what you actually get is just a Steam key for that game. There's a few indie games where they've funded porting work for one of the Humble Indie Bundles, but I doubt many of those are exclusive to the Humble Store.

paulmd 9y ago
I was looking through today's GOG sales and I saw they've started to introduce DRM on some of their titles, so buyer beware, they're starting to go downhill too. https://www.gog.com/game/aliens_versus_predator_classic_2000 https://www.gog.com/game/aliens_versus_predator_classic_2000
- icebraining 9y ago
  Eh, I'm not sure that I consider controlling access to their servers the same as DRM. The lack of LAN multiplayer is bad, but is GOG responsible for that?
  - makomk 9y ago
    From what I can tell, the original retail release had support for LAN play, direct connections, and various third-party server browser options, all of which they removed so they could lock multiplayer behind a DRM wall that requires the GOG Galaxy client.
    - icebraining 9y ago
      Right, but the game wasn't released by, or even exclusively on GOG; it's also on Steam, for example. So I doubt the decision was theirs. And while it may suck, I don't think it can be considered DRM.

ehsankia 9y ago

I honestly had completely forgotten about their charity contributions. In my mind they had become another digital game shop. I'm curious, does it say somewhere what the total amount they have contributed to charity over all the years? EDIT: Found it on wikipedia: > By September 2017, the total charitable amount raised by the Bundles exceeded $100 million across 50 different charities. That is pretty impressive.

Freak_NL 9y ago

> As well as no longer caring if games are cross platform. As a Linux gamer, the fact that some of the non-Humble Indie Bundles contain games I can't run is annoying (I am fine with these being offered, just don't mail me about them unless I can run them), but the Humble Indie Bundles tend to contain exclusively or nearly exclusively cross-platform games, like they always have.

pbhjpbhj 9y ago
Steam too annoys me in this respect, would be nice to have the option to hide all promotions (and indeed content) about games one can't run.