Humble Bundle

[{ИЯm} Keith]

How does everyone feel about humble bundle's monthly sub?

I normally don't pause but this month I did for the first time. I liked maybe 2 of the games and I felt both were probably not something I'd be super eager to play. (above the back log)
I have one of the earlier Tropico games and I wasn't really a fan.

I'm lucky enough to be on classic so the price is fair for me. I'd be far less happy only getting 9 of them for double the price I'm paying.

I feel like the over all quality is down. Often there are indie games that feel like they "should" be free or in the Steam $1 section. ( I noticed that two of the games in a previous month were free on itch.io)

Am I wrong? Curious how others feel.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

tmwfte の投稿を引用：

I've been doing the monthly then choice for quite some time now. A few in the beginning, then pretty much straight since the end of 2016/beginning of 2017 (I think, the time's flown by).

I like it and it's become my primary way of buying games that I'd otherwise have grabbed during a Steam sale, resulting in me spending a whole lot less money, since I know it would probably be forever until I got around to playing them anyway.

Usually there's 3 or 4 games from my wishlist that I'm pleased by, some indies that I'd never have thought of but might be fun, a couple that I already have and can pass on, and then one or two that I've no interest in whatsoever.

This month was kind of meh. Probably the worst since the one that was filled with old Squeenix backlist games. Tropico 6 is fine, but I probably would have waited until it's $5 for the complete edition in like 2022. Rachel Foster, Shadows, and Fae Tactics were on my wishlist, making me happy. Fae Tactics is fun, but I can see how longer periods of playing might cause boredom. The Sunless games are phenomenal, well worth it, but I already had both. Iron Danger, Basement, and Lightmatter might be fun.

But what drags this one down is Goat of Duty--which has been given away free a few times--, The Uncertain--a good game, sure, but has been bundle fodder for a while now in much cheaper bundles, and Fantasy Blacksmith--which is a piece of crap that looks like an asset flip and should cause Humble to be embarrassed for its inclusion. All of which sucks.

Yet then you've got months where you've got Vampyr, Call of Cthulhu, Hello Neighbour, HN: Hide & Seek, Wargroove, Genesis Alpha One, Little Big Workshop, A Case of Distrust, American Fugitive, Coma 2, and Through the Darkest of Times, which was an absolutely incredible bundle.

So, it's six of one, half a dozen of the other.

I'd really never heard of the games in this months bundle other then Tropico and Fae Tactics. I'm not sure I'm all that excited about fae tactics even with Humble hyping it up.
Rachel Foster for me didn't hold any interest, but I don't know it. I do have actual sunlight already, and I assumed it was the same "idea".
Shadows awakening may be good, I'm still punching away at DOS2 which looks better.
No idea if I'd play the sunless bundle.
Autonaughts looked like shovelware. (is this a fun game?)
Goat of duty looks like it would be a spoof game on newgrounds.
Fantasy blacksmith actually had me slightly interested, but I doubt I'd have tried it in the next 2 months.
Lightmatter and basement both seemed interesting, but I also felt they were less $ valuable titles.
iron danger just looks a little indie and like something that's been done before, the "unique mechanic" looks like something I'd find frustrating.
The uncertain looks cool to me, don't know if it plays well.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Nyperon の投稿を引用：

{ИЯm} Keith の投稿を引用：

You sound like a very kind person gifting all those keys. Any idea if when our paid time for classic runs out if we'll be able to buy more classic at the same price? I ask because I purchased a friend one month and it was double what I pay per month.

Classic plan is only for those who were subscibers before the Humble Choice. If you cancel your classic plan, you will never be able to get back to it. Thats why I pause, instead of cancel the plan completely.

I've got like 2 classic months left. (paid for 12 months). What happens when I need to buy more months? can I get another 12 months for like $140 or will it be a big price increase?(when I unpause and use my last ones up)

[Nyperon]

{ИЯm} Keith の投稿を引用：

Nyperon の投稿を引用：

Classic plan is only for those who were subscibers before the Humble Choice. If you cancel your classic plan, you will never be able to get back to it. Thats why I pause, instead of cancel the plan completely.

I've got like 2 classic months left. (paid for 12 months). What happens when I need to buy more months? can I get another 12 months for like $140 or will it be a big price increase?(when I unpause and use my last ones up)

Oh, you meant it that way... I honestly don´t know because I pay month-to-month, but I´m quite sure the FAQ on main page will answer your question. Or simply contact the support :) Maybe you will be notified at the end of your subscription to buy another year. Dunno, go to manage my subscription maybe there is an option to purchase next one.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

BossGalaga の投稿を引用：

There are a lot of great awesome bundles but after a while the backlog becomes too much so I opted out of keeping the classic subscription and I haven't subbed in a while because I have too many unplayed games in my Steam library, and a couple hundred spare game keys from various bundle sites that I haven't even redeemed because I'd rather gift or trade them.

It's not bad if you're just building up your game collection or if you absolutely have to have all the latest and greatest games.

if you are swapping keys, I have the base hello neighbour game as fodder.

[Exiled Alchemist]

I don't use it, and I've refuse to support Humble Bundle for many years now. Once they went down the rabbit hole to focus more on software, audio/digital book bundles instead of actual game bundles I slowly stopped buying anything from them.

Then IGN took over, and I noticed that it only got worse. The main focus of the monthly bundle is not worth the price tag, and it's nothing more then a gamble of what they will offer. I see no point to paying money on a mystery system that will most of the time offer titles I will never play, or care to ever play.

Instead of paying for that hot mess I'd rather look for actual deals using isthereanydeal, and get what I want without being flooded with keys for games that I know most people would never want in the first place. Plus I've done the math at the start of the first few bundles, and I could have paid less for the same list of games in those bundles from other official key sellers, or even on Steam during a holiday event sale.

[Jonius7]

ExiledAlchemist の投稿を引用：

Plus I've done the math at the start of the first few bundles, and I could have paid less for the same list of games in those bundles from other official key sellers, or even on Steam during a holiday event sale.

I don't get how this is correct. Take any 3 games from a Humble Choice and try and buy them individually at their historically low price as shown on isthereanydeal. They will cost way more than the monthly price.

Though I do see the Basic "Choice" being much worse than before, choosing only 3 games. I could have sworn there were three plans to choose 7, 8, 9 games, while continuing users from the old Monthly remain on the "Classic" plan, which gave you 10 choices.

The last 2 months giving you all 12 games are an exception.

[pasa]

ExiledAlchemist の投稿を引用：

Then IGN took over, and I noticed that it only got worse. The main focus of the monthly bundle is not worth the price tag, and it's nothing more then a gamble of what they will offer. I see no point to paying money on a mystery system that will most of the time offer titles I will never play, or care to ever play.

What are you talking about? There is no gamble whatsoever.

{ИЯm} Keith の投稿を引用：

I've got like 2 classic months left. (paid for 12 months). What happens when I need to buy more months? can I get another 12 months for like $140 or will it be a big price increase?(when I unpause and use my last ones up)

You can switch to 1M or 3M plan from 12M without any fuss. The pack just takes your money earlier offering some discount. Regardless of the plan you can pause at any month you don't like. Without limit.

[Exiled Alchemist]

Jonius7 の投稿を引用：

I don't get how this is correct. Take any 3 games from a Humble Choice and try and buy them individually at their historically low price as shown on isthereanydeal. They will cost way more than the monthly price.

Though I do see the Basic "Choice" being much worse than before, choosing only 3 games. I could have sworn there were three plans to choose 7, 8, 9 games, while continuing users from the old Monthly remain on the "Classic" plan, which gave you 10 choices.

The last 2 months giving you all 12 games are an exception.

Not all the prices on isthereanydeal are accurate. They tend to ignore coupon codes that may have been applied to the games. So if you had gotten these games from another site like Fanatical that had a 5 - 10% off promo code it will not be seen on that site. Plus it doesn't always show that a game was in a giveaway for free when looking at the historical low as they may have been given away by other means that the site can't track. For example, if you where to look at any game that was on GoG that was given away for free you will not see it priced as such when looking at that game's historical low. Same thing can be said when getting a free title from the publisher via an email sign-up.

pasa の投稿を引用：

What are you talking about? There is no gamble whatsoever.

The gamble is the fact that you don't know what will be in the next months bundle.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

ExiledAlchemist の投稿を引用：

Jonius7 の投稿を引用：

I don't get how this is correct. Take any 3 games from a Humble Choice and try and buy them individually at their historically low price as shown on isthereanydeal. They will cost way more than the monthly price.

Though I do see the Basic "Choice" being much worse than before, choosing only 3 games. I could have sworn there were three plans to choose 7, 8, 9 games, while continuing users from the old Monthly remain on the "Classic" plan, which gave you 10 choices.

The last 2 months giving you all 12 games are an exception.

Not all the prices on isthereanydeal are accurate. They tend to ignore coupon codes that may have been applied to the games. So if you had gotten these games from another site like Fanatical that had a 5 - 10% off promo code it will not be seen on that site. Plus it doesn't always show that a game was in a giveaway for free when looking at the historical low as they may have been given away by other means that the site can't track. For example, if you where to look at any game that was on GoG that was given away for free you will not see it priced as such when looking at that game's historical low. Same thing can be said when getting a free title from the publisher via an email sign-up.

I think to this end the question is what is a game really worth?
Grid and Ancestors Legacy are in a 4 game pack for CA 5.29 meaning they are worth about $1.30 so getting 10 or 12 games for about 12 dollars makes these games on track but maybe not anything to write home about. They are NOT worth the $40 humble values them at.

July for example had Void bastard which to me is worth $12 so I'm happy. However to be honest what is a railway empire without all it's DLCs worth? Is Yuppie psych valuable? Don't escape to me looks like it would be in steam's free to play.

June had the stillness of the wind, which I think is free elsewhere, and the kings bird which is in a 10 games for $6.59 bundle on fenatical. That makes the game worth 0.66 cents and not 1/10 or 1/12 of monthly cost.

Still I was very happy with September's picks as I'm a vampire fan and probably would have purchased the new masquerade game anyway. That month for me was several hits and several big misses. (cough cough golf game)

[tmwfte]

ExiledAlchemist の投稿を引用：

I see no point to paying money on a mystery system that will most of the time offer titles I will never play, or care to ever play.

It hasn't been a mystery system since December of last year. The new version of the monthly bundle, "Humble Choice", isn't bought blind. You have any time during the month to buy it and you know all of the games you can choose from before you have to pay (or choose to skip the bundle entirely if you want).

[Nabster]

You can just collect the weekly free games from epic and achieve the same result (having heaps of games you never intend to play)

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Nabster の投稿を引用：

You can just collect the weekly free games from epic and achieve the same result (having heaps of games you never intend to play)

I did not know the epic ones were weekly. That's a lot missed. Still I'm not sold on epic for a number of reasons.

[Mr. Megidramon]

The more games you have, the more worthless it becomes.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Mr. Megidramon の投稿を引用：

The more games you have, the more worthless it becomes.

While their is truth to that. (10 new games that aren't a type I like isn't something I'm hungering for) I still like to try new games. Even if I just casually play one for a few hours. That said my steam list is large enough that if I played a different game each day and never missed a day I have about 2 years worth of games.

[pasa]

ExiledAlchemist の投稿を引用：

pasa の投稿を引用：

What are you talking about? There is no gamble whatsoever.

The gamble is the fact that you don't know what will be in the next months bundle.

Huh? Gamble is when you put down the stakes before you know something. And on HB you only pay for the current month, not the next one.

Do you also call steam wallet gamble?