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The Humble THQ Bundle
- Le_SDT 14y agobought in less than a second, thanks to paypal
- dkhenry 14y agoVery disappointed this isn't about THQ making some of these games available for Linux, also "Requires Steam to Play". I still have half a mind to purchase it as the Company of Heroes games are excellent, but I really dislike buying games that I have to use wine to play.
- leddt 14y agoI agree that it's not really in the 'spirit' of the humble bundle in that regard. As a Windows and Steam user, however, I bought it instantly. It's an amazing deal.
- cowkingdeluxe 14y agoDon't expect them to anytime soon, they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Negative equity and they technically defaulted on a 50m loan. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI
- dkhenry 14y agoI wonder where the good studios in THQ will wind up. I hope Relic doesn't end up in the hands of EA like so many other promising Studios have.
- potatolicious 14y agoUnlikely. Much of the game industry in Vancouver is staffed by ex-EA refugees (hey, I guess EA is good for something after all) - it's unlikely any one of them would ever willingly sell themselves back to the company they fled. And if they did, their staff won't keep.
- Wingman4l7 14y agoVery bummed to hear this -- Company of Heroes was excellent and I was really looking forward to CoH 2; I hope they publish it before they go belly up.
- Impossible 14y agoIt would be cool to have these games available for Linux, but I just can't see the extra humble bundle money and good will being worth the engineering effort required. Valve has done a lot to get L4D2 working on Linux, and has a ton of resources and a long term business agenda to move away from Windows. I think the only way we'll see a lot of AAA games going to Linux is if someone releases hardware that is Linux based and it has a large install base comparable to other major consoles. Most AAA game developers see extremely reduced sales on PC vs console already, so Mac ports are rarely worth it, let alone Linux.
- atmz 14y agoI thought the point of these bundles was to support indie game studios? Still, money goes to charity, decent set of games.. it just feels a bit incongruous.
- leddt 14y agoI have the feeling it's a last ditch effort from THQ to gain some goodwill. They are doing pretty bad financially and they probably hope this might help them going forward.
- freehunter 14y agoThe Humble Indie Bundle is, which is why it has indie in the name. There are multiple Humble Bundles, not all of them indie, and not all of them games. See the Humble eBook Bundle and the Humble Music Bundle.
- jiggy2011 14y agoWarning about Metro 2033. It's actually a pretty good game with great atmosphere despite it's faults but there is a part quite near they end that is almost guaranteed to make you rage-quit even on easy skill settings. Edit: Requires Steam and Windows. I though the biggest point of the bundle was proving the market for DRM free cross platform games? They may as well have just made this a steam sale.
- dkersten 14y agoWarning about Metro 2033. It's actually a pretty good game with great atmosphere despite it's faults but there is a part quite near they end that is almost guaranteed to make you rage-quit even on easy skill settings. Huh? I played Metro from start to finish over the space of about a week during the summer of last year and its a fantastic game. While it was quite difficult at times, I didn't find it so difficult that I would rage quit at any point.
- jiggy2011 14y agoI was referring to this part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0BSa75Cw_s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0BSa75Cw_s At about 1:40 in. YMMV of course, I'm certainly not the best FPS player but I found this significantly more frustrating than any other point in the game by a large margin mainly because I kept losing because of a dumb NPC. When I was googling around I found a lot of people frustrated by this part. I did most of the game on hard but struggled with this part on easy.
- dkersten 14y agoOk, yeah, that bit was HARD
- aw3c2 14y agoIf Humble Bundles are not DRM free anymore I will not bother anymore. This is a disgrace to the brand they created.
- kevingadd 14y agoBetween compromising on DRM free and multiplatform I'm pretty ticked, especially because Humble Bundle has told indie devs I know to take a hike specifically because of not having a Linux port. The double standard is kind of offensive given that this money will likely get entirely devoured by THQ-the-publisher instead of the worthy studios that built the games being sold.
- tiglionabbit 14y agoThis bundle doesn't have "indie" in the name. I'm pretty sure they've done similar bundles in the past. I think it's a good thing that they are introducing more traditional publishers to this pricing model, and I hope the experiment is a success.
- Flimm 14y agoThey haven't done similar bundles in the past, hence the surprise everyone is expressing.
- cynest 14y agoThq is getting desperate it seems. Really hoping they're able get their next wave of games out before they go under.
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- incision 14y agoShame I already own all but one of these games via three years of isolating any game purchases to Steam sales. Still, I bought into this one for the soundtracks and put the majority to charity.
- djcapelis 14y agoNot crossplatform, no EFF donation, not indie and DRM all at once? That's a large shift. I generally liked supporting humble bundles on principle. Seems hard to keep feeling good about that now.
- vidyesh 14y agoThis seems more like helping THQ get back on their feet.
- djcapelis 14y agoI don't mean to be mean or thoughtless, but why should a community originally formed to support DRM free cross platform indie games support a failing corporation (that needs a lot more help than a humble bundle sale could ever do for it) which isn't any of those things? Do they intend to be any of those things if they do get back on their feet? Aren't they publishers themselves? Why can't they just run a sale? It seems like using the humble bundle is purely a marketing thing. I didn't support the previous humble bundles as a marketing tactic, I supported them because of their goals.
- arcatek 14y ago> I didn't support the previous humble bundles as a marketing tactic, I supported them because of their goals. Couldn't you just give your money to the EFF, then ? My first reason for buying Humble Bundles is the very low price. The goal is the nice side effect.
- djcapelis 14y agoI do give money to the EFF directly as well. If I was after low prices there'd be no reason for me to pay more than a dollar or two for a bundle. I pay what I pay because I want to support good art, good code and a good platform for that with good goals.
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- mcherm 14y agoNot exactly an "independent" publisher, only available for Steam, only for Windows, no contributions to the EFF? But when you add in that there is no DRM-free version, it's just not "Humble Bundle" anymore.
- leddt 14y agoMaybe they should have dropped "Humble" from the name and replaced it with "Save"
- marvin 14y agoIt's certainly a bundle.
- weisser 14y agoA bundle of SOMETHING alright! I'm really disappointed. I know the site has been doing very well monetarily with their format but stuff like this discredits them to me. For most people I think Humble Bundle was about doing good while also building awareness of indie developers. I've tried so many games I would never have heard of let alone purchased because of the site. Hopefully their next release won't be Disappointing Bundle 2.
- homosaur 14y agoSo you'd rather them sell NOTHING than THQ games? These games are stellar. Company of Heroes is one of the best tactical RTS games of all time. Red Faction Armageddon is very good. Metro 2033 is very good. Saints Row and Darksiders are very good. These are not crap mainstream games thrown together with a Humble Bundle tag, these are brilliant pieces of software. And anyway, you don't have to worry about this for long, there's not a lot of mainstream publishers out there that are going to give you a bunch of triple A titles to sell for donations. The money is still going where it used to go. I see no problem with this.
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- lambda 14y agoThis seems to be completely against the spirit of the Humble Bundles. They are normally creative games from independent publishers, available cross platform and DRM free. These are some generic mass-market games from a failing major publisher, available only on Windows, and delivered via Steam rather than DRM-free. The excessive numbers of "Humble X Bundles" that have been coming out recently have been kind of killing my interest in them. When it was an occasional thing with some really good games in the bundle, and I was able to support cross-platform DRM-free game development, I would buy pretty much every one, even if I didn't play many of the games. Now that they've diluted the brand so much, I'm a lot less likely to look when they announce a new bundle.
- munchor 14y ago>Windows-only >Steam-only >not DRM-free Seriously, what is this... The fun was cross-platformness (GNU/Linux and Mac OS X support). This is just not typical "Humble Bundle". I wouldn't mind less humble bundles (a couple a year), but good and cross-platform and a load of them, instead of Windows & Steam-only like this.
- arrrg 14y agoOf course it’s a typical Humble Bundle. There were goddamn Android bundles in the past. No one complained. But now suddenly everyone. I do not get it. The point of Humble Bundles is to make a bunch of cool games available for however much money you want to pay. Sometimes those games are cross-plattform, sometimes not. That’s it.
- richbradshaw 14y agoBut the Android ones also worked on Linux, OSX and Windows. This is just Windows.
- asb 14y agoI don't care about cross-platform, but I feel abandoning DRM-free is really moving away from the original concept.
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- venomsnake 14y agoWell - look from the point of THQ - they are fighting for their life. Maybe they really don't have the resources for stripping DRM, let alone porting. So they are throwing steam keys around for promo purposes. But I would really like for the both companies to better communicate the reasons for the breaking of the bundle rules. And the bundle is amazing value anyway.
- geetee 14y agoInstead of complaining about the man and DRM, customize your purchase to give it all to charity. Have a nice day.
- cadab 14y agoExactly!
- JulianWasTaken 14y agoYour comment seems to presume that complaints are meant for venting dissatisfaction rather than encouraging HiB not to do this again.
- geetee 14y agoWith the amount of money being raised, I hope this encourages them to do it all the time.
- brown9-2 14y agoThe text says "Windows-only" but after I added the Steam keys on my Mac client, it seems to be downloading the games to my Mac just fine. edit: After downloading the 9GB game the Mac Steam client just tells me that I cannot play it on my platform.
- unsignedint 14y agoThat's by design of Steam. You can still download games that are not supported on your platform that is running Steam. It's actually convenient as you can utilize faster connection other than where you play the game, and then export and haul the data on your thumb drive to be installed on the machine you play the game.
- baq 14y agoeven if you give 100% to THQ, you're pretty much giving it all to charity, since they're not exactly business at the moment.
- RyanZAG 14y agoInteresting note. If you change the custom value to under $1 you get the following message: "Warning! Please note that orders under $1.00 will ONLY receive the soundtracks and will NOT receive the games! " This seems to go against the spirit of "pay what you want"? Not that $1.00 is really different from $0.01, but I'm pretty sure that for indy bundles before you could go as low as you wanted? I didn't think to try before though, I guess. Can anybody confirm?
- leddt 14y agoThey did that to work around a problem where people were paying $.01 just to get a steam key. Adding a game to a steam account "validates it" and this can be abused in certain scenarios. For example, steam sometimes has events where you can enter contests, and people were creating hundreds of fake entries for almost no money. Edit: just to be clear, for other bundles you can pay $.01 and get the DRM free games but not the steam keys (which require a payment >= $1). Here, since the games require steam, the minimum price is $1.
- arcatek 14y agoSome people were paying multiple times $0.01, using this as a vector to spam the steam key generation servers. So they have asked (since few bundles) to pay more than $1 when you want to get te steam keys. And since this Bundle is steam-only ... The minimal amount to get the games is $1.
- benaiah 14y agoYou have always had to pay at least a dollar to get Steam keys, no matter the bundle. I think it has something to do with Steam's requirements, but I don't know that.
- leddt 14y agoNo, the first few bundles gave away keys for any price. They changed it during a bundle where this was a big problem with a contest that Steam was holding at the same time.
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- jenius 14y agoShit, they got me with the rick roll (short link end of video)
- moistgorilla 14y agoI have to admit, while desperate by THQ, this isn't a dumb move. Notice how they give away three games with sequels out or coming out and Saints Row 3 which has a ton of dlc. It seems like they are betting the bank on the new titles that are coming out. I hope this works for them because I like the titles produced by this company.
- sergiotapia 14y agoIt was never about principles, or being cross-platform, or even for charity for me. Personally, I just wanted cool games for a low price. And this particular Humble Bundle delivers. Three of the four games are ones that I very nearly purchased in the past, so I'm thrilled. This is a great deal for me!
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- pdknsk 14y agoIt's interesting that THQ stock is +20% since the bundle went live, in addition to about +20% earlier today, before the bundle. It's climbing sharply now. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI
- teamonkey 14y agoThe reason for the stock climb is rumors of a buyout, not this bundle.
- skeletonjelly 14y agoWow 37%! Yeah I can't see that much share price increase coming from a "choose your own price" when the games have already been out for a while. Buyouts are typically the cause for ~10%+ increases I suppose?
- achompas 14y agoThere's so much sanctimony in this thread. "Ohh, I support the Humble team on principle!! This bundle destroys the Humble spirit!!" Do you support open, DRM-free software? Skip this release and wait for Humble Indie Bundle 7, like they suggest on the landing page. Are you worried Humble is losing their platform-agnostic magic? Well, they've released two Android-only bundles before. Do you want to hook up indie devs? Their games are still available on Steam, XBLA, or Kickstarter. If you're against these releases, why not sit this one out? There will be another indie bundle soon enough. EDIT: forgot one. Are you really concerned about the social good? Well, the EFF and Child's Play always accept donations on their websites: http://www.childsplaycharity.org/ http://www.childsplaycharity.org/ http://www.eff.org/ http://www.eff.org/
- AceJohnny2 14y agoNot that I particularly mind this bundle, but note that the two previous "Android" bundles were also available on other platforms. It's just that they were also available on Android and they focused on that.
- achompas 14y agoThose Android bundles netted you Android games, if I recall correctly--they didn't get you the Linux/Mac/Win versions too. Is that right?
- jgeralnik 14y agoNo, they gave you android versions in addition to the Linux/Mac/Windows versions.
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- stordoff 14y agoYou got all four (OS X/Linux/Android/Windows) platforms where they were available (might be for all games; I haven't checked). This is my purchase page: http://i.imgur.com/IN58e.png http://i.imgur.com/IN58e.png
- hntldr_com 14y agoWindows-only, Steam-only, not DRM-free Games: Saint Row the third, Darksiders, Metro 2033, Red Faction Armageddon, Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts, Company of Heroes Tales of Valor
- tomdeal 14y agoBe aware that the key for saints row does not work when you are in Germany. Luckily, the humble bundle support is good and will help you out if you have problems, at least they helped me very fast :) It would be even nicer though if they would mention this on the official page.
- salzig 14y agosupport, which kind?
- a_bonobo 14y agoThe Humble Bundle support: http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/867217-germany---saints-row-the-third http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/867... >We are aware of the issue going on with Saints Row: The Third Steam keys for German customers who purchased the bundle prior to 23:00 CET on November 29th. >Please email us at contact@humblebundle.com with your Transaction ID and the subject "Saints Row Steam Key", and we can get you a Steam key for the German version of Saint's Row: The Third.
- jmcantrell 14y agoThis really rubbed me the wrong way. It feels like they're taking advantage of my generosity.
- homosaur 14y agoOh please, don't buy it then. I'm sure you can find another charity online you can send $5 to.
- pfisch 14y agoThey should call this the THQ bankruptcy bundle
- pdknsk 14y agoWith the bundle already at $1M, it could go up to $10M, which is the current THQ market capitalisation. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI So instead of purchasing some games, gamers could've purchased THQ, and released the games for free and without DRM.
- mmanfrin 14y ago+37% today. Investors think this was a great move.
- romnempire 14y agowhat how god how do you think corporations work? do they have magic money trees? we, in conglomerate, purchase THQ, give their games away for free and then what, fire all their developers, close all their studios and sell all the buildings, revelling in our destruction of the future of gaming so everyone can gave some games today for free? there was much better discussion on this topic on reddit.
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- homosaur 14y agoWhy is THQ failing so hard? Is it simply because of how poorly the company was run for decades beginning with the Nintendo era where they foisted tons of licensed crap games on kids? I know I still kind of have negative associations with the THQ brand, even though I know for a fact that they've been releasing very good games for more than a decade now. Is it just a matter of spending too much money on games like Saints Row that are huge money losers?
- totallymike 14y agoIt's a shame if Saint's Row is losing them money. The Third one is actually pretty great. I thought it was a lot more fun than Grand Theft Auto 4.
- skeletonjelly 14y agoInteresting seeing the different comments in this thread and reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1405fo/the_humble_thq_bundle/ http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1405fo/the_humble_th...
- totallymike 14y agoThis is in no way against the spirit of the bundles. The spirit of the bundles is that you pay however much you please, allocating how you choose between charities, devs and the humble crew. Unfortunately the games THQ offers are only available on Steam, but that's the way it shakes. However you look at it, they are still sharing a high-quality selection of games that you don't have to pay them ANYTHING for. You can put 100% of your payment toward charity and THQ still happily gives you the games. I don't see how that's against the spirit of the bundles.