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It really saddened me the current state of Humble Bundle. Originally, it was really really good. Original software, books and co. It was adding added value, l

It really saddened me the current state of Humble Bundle. Originally, it was really really good. Original software, books and co. It was adding added value, like the bundling of music or assets, the promise to have "drm free" executable, and as much as possible, games and software running on linux or at least downloadable. All of that, really for the price you wanted and valued the pack. Now, it is mostly abusing of its previously marketing image to sell you for indecent price what are abandonware or deprecated content. Most game are provided as single use steam or origin license keys. If you pay what you want, you can usually only get a garbage subset of the content, otherwise you kind of need to pay the "fixed" price to have the content that is advertised.

hiyer 4y ago
I don't know about games but some of their book bundles are still quite good, especially (on the technical side) the ones from O'Reilly, No Starch Press, and Apress. They also have occasional Manga/Graphic novel bundles which are nice as well.
- tzs 4y ago
  I've almost bought some of the book bundles, but then realized that all or almost all of the books in the bundle were also on O'Reilly online learning. I've got a great deal on that [1] and the Bundle books were all books that I would not need long term and so losing access to them if I ever cancel O'Reilly was not a problem. [1] Way back when it was Safari Library they had a variety of plans. They wanted to switch to a single unlimited plan. Those of us on the cheaper limited plans were grandfathered in. To encourage us to voluntarily switch to the new plan they offered it to us for $200/year for as long as we kept our accounts active, which was 1/2 the current price for new subscribers. Now it is $500/year for new subscribers, but still $200/year for those of us who accepted their offer.
  - hiyer 4y ago
    Does O'Reilly learning have non O'Reilly books as well? And do you still have the coupons system that Safari did, that allowed you to download entire books? $500 is a bit high but may still be worth it for me if these are available.
dspillett 4y ago
The downfall started with the sale to IGN about five years ago, though the effect was not immediate. A sad but not uncommon tale of new ownership not keeping the old feel.

hiyer 4y ago

I don't know about games but some of their book bundles are still quite good, especially (on the technical side) the ones from O'Reilly, No Starch Press, and Apress. They also have occasional Manga/Graphic novel bundles which are nice as well.

tzs 4y ago
I've almost bought some of the book bundles, but then realized that all or almost all of the books in the bundle were also on O'Reilly online learning. I've got a great deal on that [1] and the Bundle books were all books that I would not need long term and so losing access to them if I ever cancel O'Reilly was not a problem. [1] Way back when it was Safari Library they had a variety of plans. They wanted to switch to a single unlimited plan. Those of us on the cheaper limited plans were grandfathered in. To encourage us to voluntarily switch to the new plan they offered it to us for $200/year for as long as we kept our accounts active, which was 1/2 the current price for new subscribers. Now it is $500/year for new subscribers, but still $200/year for those of us who accepted their offer.
- hiyer 4y ago
  Does O'Reilly learning have non O'Reilly books as well? And do you still have the coupons system that Safari did, that allowed you to download entire books? $500 is a bit high but may still be worth it for me if these are available.

dspillett 4y ago

The downfall started with the sale to IGN about five years ago, though the effect was not immediate. A sad but not uncommon tale of new ownership not keeping the old feel.