Humble Bundle Teams Up With Origin

[jackpipsam]

This is a fantastic deal.
Darn shame I already own some of those games

But still I don't see any negative of this.
Over $3million has been raised and it isn't even a day yet.

 

[GAunderrated]

Sadly the two games I would consider trying are locked behind origin so this deal is worthless to me personally. However, it is a nice gesture and while I hate many practices by EA, this is something they did right.

 

[Pr0]

After far too many problems with EA related products and services I've made a personal rule that if they won't put it on Steam, then its definitely not worth my money obviously.

Also, I kind of promised myself I'd shoot myself in the head before buying another EA backed game after Mass Effect 3....so, yeah, Humble, good, magnanimous, beneficent, saintly....whatever its called, if its locked behind Origin...they can keep that crap, including the thousand dollars worth of games I already lost to my personal vow to avoid having to commit honor bound hare-kari over easily avoided mistakes.

Whats more, charity or not....EA is writing that off on their taxes, its not as if they're actually being charitable other than to look charitable publicly. So I don't much buy the whole "its for charity" thing. EA has far too many accountants and lawyers to have any soul left in it. Its a nice puppet show though...for people that enjoy puppet shows.

 

[Caiphus]

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Thanks for doing the research. Shame about the cancer research charity. My grandmother died of cancer last year so I was feeling obliged to shove it all to them. But there we go.

 

[Not Lord Atkin]

popularity stunt? sure. awesome as fuck? that too.

EA or not, I wanted Dead Space 3 for quite a while now but it was too expensive. Now it's not anymore. I'm so happy

Also just so you guys know: there are Steam keys for most of those games. It's NOT locked to Origin. I feel like just stating the obvious here but apparently many of you haven't noticed.

 

[Pr0]

popularity stunt? sure. awesome as fuck? that too.

EA or not, I wanted Dead Space 3 for quite a while now but it was too expensive. Now it's not anymore. I'm so happy

Also just so you guys know: there are Steam keys for most of those games. It's NOT locked to Origin. I feel like just stating the obvious here but apparently many of you haven't noticed.

That would kind of require installing Origin probably. Which I can't be arsed to do.

 

[alj]

Nice that you get steam keys and origin keys if the game is on steam also. In no way interested in BF3 or sims so all theeEA games for just £0.64 and for most of them 2 copies without giving a penny to EA, I am livin' the dream!

I mainly got this for the first deadspace and mirrors edge so : )but dead space 3 will satisfy my co op needs until saints row 4 so that's a bonus.

 

[Zombie_Moogle]

Props on the charity, EA

Still not buying your games. Still not downloading Origin

This is one Humble Bundle that I'll be skipping

 

[A BigCup of Tea]

well I was thinking off getting into pc gaming but from the looks of things most people seem to have a massive backlog of games but then again you have amazing deals like this!!

 

[Lucifiel]

I actually think it's a fairly good idea coming from EA. Quite unexpected but I do like surprises and this one in particular. Hope they keep it up.

I bought the bundle, or should I say donated. I don't live in America so I took the liberty of giving most of my donation to Watsi with a little tip for the Humble Bundle.

Got all the keys for both Steam and Origin and even installed Sims 3. Wanted to take another shot at this game since, whatever iteration of Sims I play, I always manage to burn the house/apartment down. Aaand it seems that this time as well.
Oh joy I suck at this game.

 

[Grottnikk]

Yay! For just $1 you can get a shitty digital storefront installed on your computer! Woooo.

I'm sure they'll sell a bunch of those bundles, but I hope they separate the Steam bundles from the Origin ones in the future. Cross-pollinating the bundle is a bad idea, I think.

But you can cherry-pick... getting five games on Steam for a dollar instead of five on Steam plus one on Origin isn't exactly worth being sad about...

Anything with Origin in it is worth being sad about .

 

[secretkeeper12]

Good thing I may choose not t support those charities and just pay the "humblebundle" people, because they provide me with a service that I care about. Cancer? good idea, but there will never ever be a cure for cancer because there is no money in health people.

This is a charity we're talking about. They're interested purely in finding a cure, not making profits (or at least they should be)

Humanity? humanity is pretty sick and no pitty talk or welfare-checks will save it.

Of course we'll never keep everyone healthy, but now's as good a time to start as any. Welfare DOES have a noticeable impact for the people who use it, so I don't see your point?

Red Chross? let's say I know a big hypocritical ***** in there, no thanks.

You can't judge an entire organization off your personal anecdotes, especially one as credible as the ARC (here's a brief history)

AIDS? never even thought it was that much of a deal, besides humans are to blame for it's spread.

*twitches*

That doesn't mean we can't do what we can to lessen it's spread. Doing exactly that is the whole purpose of giving to a charity that makes AIDS prevention its goal. All you've done is make a case FOR donating, not against it.

 

[lacktheknack]

Yay! For just $1 you can get a shitty digital storefront installed on your computer! Woooo.

I'm sure they'll sell a bunch of those bundles, but I hope they separate the Steam bundles from the Origin ones in the future. Cross-pollinating the bundle is a bad idea, I think.

But you can cherry-pick... getting five games on Steam for a dollar instead of five on Steam plus one on Origin isn't exactly worth being sad about...

Anything with Origin in it is worth being sad about .

<link=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.825489-So-I-got-Origin-from-EA-A-Review-Image-Heavy>Are you sure about that?