Humble Bundle

IIIAcHmEdIII

Hey guys just said id let ye all know that humblebundle.com is doing another great sale!

This is what they got on offer

Darksiders normally €19.99
Red Faction: Armageddon normally €19.99
Metro 2033 normally €9.99
Company of Heroes normally €7.99
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts normally €6.99
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valo normallyr €9.99
Saints Row: The Third normally €29.99

Total: Near €105!! and I got it for €4!

All you got to do is pay $6 or over the average and you get all the games! really easy to do i just payed with Paypal and im already downloading them now.

Now the wait begins for my eircom internet to downlaod it all =P.
Grab the deal while ye can.

Professey Chin

So humble bundle......we meet again.......

Antar Bolaeisk

Last desperate attempt by THQ to stay afloat?

Washington Irving

It's worth it for Saints Row alone. It'd want to be though since I have all the others

mayordenis

Normally I get the email right away after but this time there's no sign of it, strange

pablomakaveli

Thats an amazing bundle. :eek:

Pity i own pretty much all of them.:(

Got CoH on Steam already.

And i have Saint Row 3, Darksiders and Metro on console.

Varik

Got it about $200k ago, not a bad plan by THQ.

If the email ever shows up it'll be great.

Krusader

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Thats an amazing bundle. :eek:

Pity i own pretty much all of them.:(

Got CoH on Steam already.

And i have Saint Row 3, Darksiders and Metro on console.

Still worth picking them up for PC though for $1

KilOit

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Last desperate attempt by THQ to stay afloat?

Whats all this THQ is trouble business? haven't really being following it

Overheal

KilOit wrote: »

Whats all this THQ is trouble business? haven't really being following it

My basic understanding is their spending outpaces their income and they're starting to keel. Dropped a large budget into Darksiders II for instance and haven't made that back yet. Probably because consumer behavior has changed so dramatically in the last year or two: you might pick up a handful of full-price launch titles but most consumers will wait for sales etc. to really get the games they want to play. A real shame because they have some great IPs. They've been silent about Homeworld 3 for over a year now now when they last announced they finally got the license to make the sequel from Sierra (before Sierra was absorbed then shut down by Activision-Blizzard; god how the landscape has changed). I wish they would announce they're working on it.

farna_boy

Just wondering, if I buy this now and pay over the average, if they add more games later, will I be entitled to the extra games? Or will it depend if what I pay now is still over the average later?

Thanks

four beans, happy ****ing days!

Elysian

farna_boy wrote: »

Just wondering, if I buy this now and pay over the average, if they add more games later, will I be entitled to the extra games? Or will it depend if what I pay now is still over the average later?

Thanks

If you beat the current average you will get any games they add later.

Antar Bolaeisk

Overheal wrote: »

My basic understanding is their spending outpaces their income and they're starting to keel. Dropped a large budget into Darksiders II for instance and haven't made that back yet. Probably because consumer behavior has changed so dramatically in the last year or two: you might pick up a handful of full-price launch titles but most consumers will wait for sales etc. to really get the games they want to play. A real shame because they have some great IPs. They've been silent about Homeworld 3 for over a year now now when they last announced they finally got the license to make the sequel from Sierra (before Sierra was absorbed then shut down by Activision-Blizzard; god how the landscape has changed). I wish they would announce they're working on it.

It's a real shame as they've released some of the best games of the last couple of years. Here's hoping it doesn't affect Company of Heroes 2.

Antar Bolaeisk

Wow, some majorly negative reaction to this, both against Humble Bundle and THQ, may not help THQs fortunes afterall.

Tar.Aldarion

AMAZING bundle, awesome. Could I have clicked buy faster. Have SRIII already, but now we can multiplayer lan

SeantheMan

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Wow, some majorly negative reaction to this, both against Humble Bundle and THQ, may not help THQs fortunes afterall.

I think its good new for gamers. COH is a great franchise, hopefully COH2 helps them. Saints Row 3 was amazing.
I already own all 7 games, but will buy 3 or 4 bundles, and just gift them to people (It's Xmas time after all :P )

Lemongrab

The bundle is the best I've seen, I hope it does well. THQ puts out some great games and they need all of the help they can get.

SeantheMan

Anyone else still waitin on their email ?

Antar Bolaeisk

SeantheMan wrote: »

Anyone else still waitin on their email ?

I received mine pretty much immediately. If you log in to the site you can collect your keys there.

Edit: If you don't have an account yet you can make one but ensure it's setup using the same address as you used to purchase the bundles as that way they're all added to your account.

Edit 2: Actually, don't do that. It's scary stuff looking back at all the games purchased

Edit 3: Though it certainly explains some of the more random items in my Steam library.

IIIAcHmEdIII

i got my email instantly

Tar.Aldarion

Why are people waiting for an email? When i pay there is a link on the screen to go to my bundle,

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Wow, some majorly negative reaction to this, both against Humble Bundle and THQ, may not help THQs fortunes afterall.

It might be...their stock is up 40% today.

SeantheMan

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

I received mine pretty much immediately. If you log in to the site you can collect your keys there.

Edit: If you don't have an account yet you can make one but ensure it's setup using the same address as you used to purchase the bundles as that way they're all added to your account.

Edit 2: Actually, don't do that. It's scary stuff looking back at all the games purchased

Edit 3: Though it certainly explains some of the more random items in my Steam library.

Lovely thanks, worked, appear to already own Humble Bundles 1-4 also.
Got my keys, so I'll just save them now.
Sign up with new email, rinse and repeat

Tried to get a gift code, no email to my gmail either...
Then bought another set on Hotmail, received emails immediately.
Problem seems to be with gmail (still haven't got my original email off them yet for the first purchase)

DeSelby83

What's the average price to get saints row at the moment?

Washington Irving

DeSelby83 wrote: »

What's the average price to get saints row at the moment?

$5.56 (€4.29)

Antar Bolaeisk

DeSelby83 wrote: »

What's the average price to get saints row at the moment?

$5.56

super_furry

Just paid $6, unbelievable deal. Worth it for any one of those games alone, but I'm really looking forward to playing Company of Heroes.

Over $1million raised from the bundle so far already - is this the biggest Humble Bundle already?

DeSelby83

can you gift copies of the games you already own?

Antar Bolaeisk

DeSelby83 wrote: »

can you gift copies of the games you already own?

No, you get one code for all the games bar Saints Row 3 which has it's own separate code.

gizmo

The **** is wrong with people, seriously? There's even articles complaining about this on more legitmate sites. Note the fact that the word "charity" isn't used once in the entire article until a Humble representative weighs in.

TomCo

gizmo wrote: »

The **** is wrong with people, seriously? There's even articles complaining about this on more legitmate sites. Note the fact that the use "charity" isn't used once in the entire article until a Humble representative weighs in.

I know right?
It's for charity at the end of the day. If they decided to start selling hardcore porn in the next bundle I wouldn't think any less of them, so long as it made money!

I'd be more concerned if the titles they were offering were seriously obscure with no view to actually shifting product.

johnny_ultimate

gizmo wrote: »

The **** is wrong with people, seriously? There's even articles complaining about this on more legitmate sites. Note the fact that the use "charity" isn't used once in the entire article until a Humble representative weighs in.

Amongst the hyperbole they do make some vaguely worthwhile points. Let's just remove charity from the equation from the moment, as this is undeniably a surprisingly 'humble' move from THQ (albeit with obvious commercial benefits, but it's hard to be negative when the deal benefits both gamers and good causes). Humble Bundle have frequently shown their commitment to multi-format gaming, although with both this and the Double Fine bundle that just finished they've gone Windows exclusive. Remember that Mac and Linux users have, on average, been consistently more generous when it comes to these bundles as they're appreciative of the support for their formats (not exactly like the Linux gamer particularly is spoiled for choice). It's not completely unreasonable that they're a bit disappointed.

And I have to admit I was briefly surprised that Humble - who have consistently shown themselves to be one of the staunchest defenders of imaginative independent gaming, and DRM free gaming at that - have teamed up with a major publisher to offer very mainstream titles (no surprise its the best selling bundle yet). It's an unusual and unexpected step, so no reason people can't express moderate surprise. It is at odds with what, up until now, Humble was perceived to stand for - a reinterpretation of the company and what it does is required.

The value of the deal and the decency of THQ's offer does ultimately render complaints close to moot (well, for everyone except us Mac and Linux users left on the sidelines, but we've come to expect that ). A deal this big for Humble themselves would likely have been near impossible to turn down - significantly raising 'brand awareness' and likely a massive amount of charitable donations. It'll be interesting to see how the company expands going forward, given they've also offered soundtrack and e-book bundles this year. With expansion a few people inevitably get left behind or, in extreme situations, grow embittered - many will of course decide to vent on the Internet in regrettably exaggerated manner.

Plus, y'know, charity.

Varik

Can't activate it now but how will steam deal with already having some of the games already, not the same since the orange box was valve but I was able to gift some of those games since I already had them when that came out.

gizmo

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Amongst the hyperbole they do make some vaguely worthwhile points. Let's just remove charity from the equation from the moment, as this is undeniably a surprisingly 'humble' move from THQ (albeit with obvious commercial benefits, but it's hard to be negative when the deal benefits both gamers and good causes). Humble Bundle have frequently shown their commitment to multi-format gaming, although with both this and the Double Fine bundle that just finished they've gone Windows exclusive. Remember that Mac and Linux users have, on average, been consistently more generous when it comes to these bundles as they're appreciative of the support for their formats (not exactly like the Linux gamer particularly is spoiled for choice). It's not completely unreasonable that they're a bit disappointed.

A temporary issue though, the Amnesia Bundle overlapped the HB Android 4 bundle which featured not only the usual multi-platform compatibility but also desktop and mobile versions where applicable too.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

And I have to admit I was briefly surprised that Humble - who have consistently shown themselves to be one of the staunchest defenders of imaginative independent gaming, and DRM free gaming at that - have teamed up with a major publisher to offer very mainstream titles (no surprise its the best selling bundle yet). It's an unusual and unexpected step, so no reason people can't express moderate surprise. It is at odds with what, up until now, Humble was perceived to stand for - a reinterpretation of the company and what it does is required.

Surprise I can understand, in fact it was my first reaction too. Upon reflection though, it makes sense. As I said above, we've now had music and eBook based bundles as well as the more developer centric Introversion and Lexaloffle bundles, nevermind the awesome Amnesia Bundle so why not give AAA a chance?

I could understand possible outrage if they turned around and said they were moving to this kind of AAA content exclusively but as it stands the reaction comes across as knee jerk and completely over dramatic.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The value of the deal and the decency of THQ's offer does ultimately render complaints close to moot (well, for everyone except us Mac and Linux users left on the sidelines, but we've come to expect that ). A deal this big for Humble themselves would likely have been near impossible to turn down - significantly raising 'brand awareness' and likely a massive amount of charitable donations. It'll be interesting to see how the company expands going forward, given they've also offered soundtrack and e-book bundles this year. With expansion a few people inevitably get left behind or, in extreme situations, grow embittered - many will of course decide to vent on the Internet in regrettably exaggerated manner.

Plus, y'know, charity.

I'd imagine given the success of this bundle and their previous efforts we'll see further experimentation with bundles but yes, as long as no group completely gets lets behind then it'll be fine.

And yes, charity. Using the default split it works out as a bit over $200,000 after only what, 6 hours?

johnny_ultimate

gizmo wrote: »

And yes, charity. Using the default split it works out as a bit over $200,000 after only what, 6 hours?

I have heard several people confess to giving their full donation to THQ as they consider the publisher a charitable cause at this point

the_syco

Don't like Saints Row 3, so gave 80 cents for the rest. Already own all of the CoH's, and I'm not sure if I'll actually ever get around to playing the others (I avoided the Steam Sale this year for that reason), so meh. Before I bought these, I had 5-8 games that I don't think I've ever actually played yet.

jonnybadd

Kinda disagree with the DRM and the big name publisher for this bundle but bought it anyway. Already own Saints Row 3 so anyone who would like it on Steam, gimme a PM and I will oblige

Edit: Now gone

SeantheMan

Varik wrote: »

Can't activate it now but how will steam deal with already having some of the games already, not the same since the orange box was valve but I was able to gift some of those games since I already had them when that came out.

Says on the site that you "can't" gift the games you already own unfortunately.
I just bought 3 packs, took down all the codes and will send them to people on STEAM later as a nice surprise

GhettoCornetto

jonnybadd wrote: »

Kinda disagree with the DRM and the big name publisher for this bundle but bought it anyway. Already own Saints Row 3 so anyone who would like it on Steam, gimme a PM and I will oblige

Received with a huge amount of gratitude, thanks again!

AlmightyCushion

jonnybadd wrote: »

Kinda disagree with the DRM and the big name publisher for this bundle but bought it anyway. Already own Saints Row 3 so anyone who would like it on Steam, gimme a PM and I will oblige

Edit: Now gone

Damn. I love free stuff.

Overheal

Considering I already own Darksiders and Metro and own games in about a 2:1 ratio (2 games owned, 1 game actually played) I'm gonna pass on this.

Syferus

I don't even bother with the .exe files if there's a Steam code. I've long since passed the point of no return on that front and I'd actually stray away from buying a digital PC game if it didn't have Steam keys.

Kiith

Paid $10 for it. Brilliant value, with some great games. Not sure what there is to complain about it really.

Nody

Overheal wrote: »

Considering I already own Darksiders and Metro and own games in about a 2:1 ratio (2 games owned, 1 game actually played) I'm gonna pass on this.

For $6 it does not matter; it's a Steam sale in quad damage mode .

Overheal

Nody wrote: »

For $6 it does not matter; it's a Steam sale in quad damage mode .

Quake 2 isn't there.

And yes, Steam: I've lose count of how many games I've owned in the past that are simply missing now because well, they're gone. Steam fixes that.

ionapaul

Syferus wrote: »

I don't even bother with the .exe files if there's a Steam code. I've long since passed the point of no return on that front and I'd actually stray away from buying a digital PC game if it didn't have Steam keys.

+1

I jumped on a bargain posted in the, well, Gaming Bargains thread too quickly a few weeks ago, and was left with Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood... AS A NON-STEAM GAME! Cue big regrets when I realized that. I'm hooked to Steam for life at this stage... or until the next best game management / library solution comes around.

This bundle is amazing value, no doubt. Have all the games bar some of the CoH ones, so won't be buying.

pablomakaveli

I cracked and bought it. Even though i have a lot of them on console it was just too good a deal to turn down and its nice to have the option to play them on pc as well.

Professional Griefer

Own Darksiders on console, never liked it, but I didn't get into it.

From what I've seen and heard, its worth it just for SR3.

Asmodean

I'm in the same boat. I already own Metro on PC and Darksiders / Saints row on xbox but I just couldn't resist. Can't go wrong with helping out a worthwhile cause at the same time.

super_furry

I had everything except the Company of Heroes games, but for €4.79 it's a bargain for them alone.

Jonny7

They just added Titan Quest and a Red Faction expansion onto the humble bundle ... free for anyone who has already bought it