So you actually have to pay $24 to get just the games offered next month. You sub now for $12 and next month you'll get the games and it will auto-renewal for another $12 before you can cancel the subscription. Am I understanding it correctly?
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The Humble Monthly Bundle
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Because they don't announce the bundle until it's released, and at that point you can't subscribe and get the current bundle
styl3s
Member
$12 is too pricy considering most bundles i either have the majority of games in it, don't care about half the games or a mixture of both.
It's a neat idea but it's not for me.
It's a neat idea but it's not for me.
Why would i want to risk flushing $12 down the toilet? Yeah, $12 isn't a lot of money in the grand scheme of things but i could put that $12 towards numerous other things.
CosmicQueso
Member
Offer 6 indie games a month. Think that math checks out.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Because you will always be buying the Bundle blind. You won't be able to buy into it once it is revealed.
I keep trying to explain it as simply as possible.
You are always paying for the next bundle in advance. If you subscribe now, your first 12 dollars will get you the games released in November. By default your subscription will auto renew and you will be charged another 12 dollars for the games you will get in the December bundle.
If you decide to subscribe after November's games are revealed, you will be charged 12 dollars and get the games coming in the December bundle.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Neat idea, but no thanks.
I don't like buying games blindly and since I buy a lot of Indie games I would probably only get a bunch of games I already have.
I don't like buying games blindly and since I buy a lot of Indie games I would probably only get a bunch of games I already have.
If anyone wants to get this solely for Legend of Grimrock 2 you might want to wait.. I guarantee you it will be cheaper than $12 during the Winter sale on Steam. You won't get the extra random games but you will have enough left over from your $12 budget to buy 3-4 more games on sale
Wasn't that just what I said? ;P If I'm just planning to get the games in the first bundle and want to cancel it afterwards I will have to pay $24.
Rather Dashing
Neo Member
$12 is a decent 50% off price for Grimrock 2, so I might subscribe to the first month and see how the selection is.
I really don't see myself wasting $144 annually on blind indie bundles, though.
I really don't see myself wasting $144 annually on blind indie bundles, though.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
No it's not what you're saying. You can cancel before you are charged again.
Every month will cost you just 12 dollars.
As people have said, this is far too expensive.
At risk of sounding like people in the Playstation Plus and Games with Gold threads, they'd need to offer a "AAA" game with this every month to make it appealing. Each month gets you a major title released last year (although likely has already been £5 in the previous year's winter sale), and 4 other indies.
- Playstation Plus works because it's (at most) £40 a year. This is ~£95.
- Most of the time the "top tier" in a weekly bundle is only $10 anyway, unless it's got a t shirt etc.
At risk of sounding like people in the Playstation Plus and Games with Gold threads, they'd need to offer a "AAA" game with this every month to make it appealing. Each month gets you a major title released last year (although likely has already been £5 in the previous year's winter sale), and 4 other indies.
Oh, okay. So you will still receive the next games even if you cancel. I see now.
CosmicQueso
Member
Without knowing what will be included in the monthly bundles, it's impossible to gauge its "value" against not-really-competing services on the consoles.
So two months of bundles for 12 dollars? Sounds good to me.
No, you're paying in advance.
12$ is a lot of money but at the same time its hard to judge it this early as you don't know what kinda stuff they will offer. If Humble gives you say 5 more games similar to Grimrock 2 value that will make the 12$ excellent value. Even if they are games you already own you will be able to get some value for them. Trade them for something else or give them away on GAF etc. Are the games individual keys or is it one key for the entire bundle? There is no way of knowing for now. We have to wait until next month to see how serious they are about this stuff.
Humble needs to provide better communication and/or some guarantees. Subscriptions are an entirely different ball game from what they've been doing. And 12$ is a lot of money compared to other subscription based services out there.
Humble needs to provide better communication and/or some guarantees. Subscriptions are an entirely different ball game from what they've been doing. And 12$ is a lot of money compared to other subscription based services out there.
Rather Dashing
Neo Member
Let me try to explain the exact process:
- You authorize a recurring payment of $12/month to Humble.
- You are normally charged 7 days before the bundle unlocks. As I understand it, if you subscribe within that 7-day window, you're charged immediately and get that month's bundle when it unlocks.
- So, by the time you get a bundle, you have about 3 weeks to cancel before they charge you for the next month's bundle.
Wok
Member
But LoG 2 is free, considering the $12 are for the next bundle.
I have a feeling the first bundle has to be really good to generate buzz and ensure it isn't DoA, so it might be still be worth it for some.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
TouchMyBox
Member
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
cant say im interested. the last bundle was 10 dollars to unlock everything (still have to get it)
im guessing they're going to artificially inflate the prices of the bundles now to make this monthly thing more appealling
im guessing they're going to artificially inflate the prices of the bundles now to make this monthly thing more appealling
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Just to be clear here: you are paying 12 dollars per bundle in advance.
So, let's say right now you give them 12 dollars. That will get you the Bundle to be released in November. You can cancel the subscription before they charge you another 12 dollars for December. If you do, you only get November's games. If you don't, you'll be charged another 12 dollars for December and get access to December's games.
Good idea.
TemplaerDude
Member
Nope, sorry, tell me what's in it.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Gipsy Danger
Member
I bought the bundle. Love to roll the dice! Will probably just giveaway the games I already have.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
You will not be able to buy a bundle once its contents are revealed. You are always buying blind.
It's not exactly the same thing. Here you can pay once and keep playing your games. With PS+ you'll need to keep paying, to keep playing.
That said this Humble offer is not even close to convincing me it's worth the money. We'll see I guess..
CosmicQueso
Member
NO KNACK NO SALE
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
There's a weirdly high number of people apparently being introduced to the concept of grab bag subscriptions in this thread.
FrontalMonk
Banned
Huh. The main thing I pulled from that Gamasutra article was the fact Robert Bowling landed at Humble Bundle. I had no idea.
toddhunter
Member
Somebody will make 100 posts complaining about no black flag and how they shouldn't be subsidising people who like early access crap like mgs5.
More_Badass
Member
They need to clarify this
If it's games that haven't been bundled before, that could be a good deal
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Depends on the number of games. I don't care about the games, I just want to add to my Steam library and be a cool kid!
Seriously though, I would prefer if they gave some insight, genres of the game, what developers, etc.
Seriously though, I would prefer if they gave some insight, genres of the game, what developers, etc.
I'm kind of tempted to go for the first month just based on this alone, but I can't see myself committing to anything more than that unless they prove they can consistently deliver better deals than they have in the past to justify the lack of foreknowledge. In the coming months they might do just that, but until they prove it, why bother?
Madrugador
Member
Not my kind of thing but I'm guessing they will make the first bundles really good to get people in.
MadScientist
Banned
So its for Indies to get their game out to a few thousand people in hope for good word of mouth. I expect newly released games from unknown developers, that won't be offered as cheap again for some time. It will probably be more for the curious than for the deal hunter. I might bite.