Humble Store Opens With 24-Hour Debut Sale

[Kapol]

I think that the percentages are very fair. The vast majority goes to the people who spent the time and money to actually make the game. This makes it easier to get new games to put on the site, and makes it so the indie devs can keep eating. 15% for the Humble guys isn't bad. They host the DRM free copies if I'm not mistaken, which is a decent chunk of bandwidth. And they obviously want to get paid too, since this is basically becoming a sales platform. 10% to charity is still a good amount. It's not huge, but it's not insignificant either. As the front page mentions, they've raised over $72k for charities already.

That said, I do think you should be able to spread your donations out however you want. There's no real reason not to as far as I can tell.

The main thing to keep in mind though is that, while a part of the Humble 'brand,' this is not the Humble Bundles. This is a storefront, which makes things change.

 

[Snacuum]

I'm a little bit concerned that this will mean less exciting Humble Bundles in the future. Why sell whole packs of games for ridiculously low prices as dictated by the buyer when you can still offer those games for still very good discounts and make more money?

 

[Strazdas]

I've just bought both Orcs must die 2 and Natural Selection 2 but I can't play them at all, I can't even download them, I can't do a damn thing because these games aren't actually available. You NEED a steam account and download/play them with Steam.

I don't have nor want anything to do with Steam, so I wasted my money with this shit.

really? all humble bundles i ever bought have explicitly, multiple times told me that they are available via steam only. in fact, they are the reason i decided to give steam a second chance. That sounds like a huge thing to miss.

Please look at the maths again, but I concur. I would prefer to divvy up the charity percentages myself and give 25% to the devs and storefront.
Edit: NVM it is I who needs to check my figures. I still agree that more should go to the charitys. I guess I'll just hang out for the bundles.

It's not just the percentage either, it's being split between five charities rather than the usual two, so each one is getting less. I wouldn't mind the 10% as much if you got to choose which charity it goes to or splitting it between a couple of your choice.

I'd prefer a split of 50% devs, 25% charity and 25% Humble (if they insist on taking that much). Usually I go 50/50 between the devs and the charities so I suppose they wanted to ensure people didn't do that any more.

I competely agree. i usually would leave 0.5 dollar to humble, give something like 25% for devs and then give everything else to EFF if possible. I like to pick what charities i want to support.

Nope, that's not the same. Those Icons are only there to show you on what platform they can be played.

All the games there have a steam icon, that's because you can unlock them on your steam account if you want to, but that doesn't mean that they will force you to. Just because a game doesn't have a DRM-free icon doesn't mean that it MUST be unlocked via steam, it just means that it has some form of DRM in it, which could just be that you have to enter in a key during installation or on your first start-up.

Another problem is that its not stated anywhere what these icons actually mean. And that these icons don't have the same meaning in all sections of their site.

Nope, there are more icons that platforms. There is a drm free icon. self explanatory. there is steam icon - means the game goes via steam. if there is no other icon but steam icon, its obvious that this game is only available through steam.

I don't know how many more times I have to tell people that just because it has a Steam Icon and no DRM-FREE icon doesn't mean that the DRM is steam related.

The Steam icon mean that steam is an option. DRM free icon means that no DRM is an option. if a game has only steam icon, that means thats the only option.

I'm a little bit concerned that this will mean less exciting Humble Bundles in the future. Why sell whole packs of games for ridiculously low prices as dictated by the buyer when you can still offer those games for still very good discounts and make more money?

True this is concerminig, but lets be honest they already were almost gifting us games unless you specifically chose to donate 100 dollars, in which case you can afford this model as well. You know what they say about gifted horses...

 

[Delts28]

I'm going to agree with Valderis here. There have previously been games in Humble Bundles that allow you to install on windows without steam but still with DRM. They should have a "steam only" note on them.

As was said above, it does worry me that this will mean less bundles and less exciting things in the bundles that do exist. Bundles have been awesome at discovering new games so far.

EDIT: Come to think of it I'm sure on previous bundles they have had "only available on steam" notes below certain games.

 

[babinro]

So it's like a Steam sale but every day? Cripes...

I'm not a fan of not being able to choose which charity the money goes towards, plus I'd rather give more than 10%. So kind of a mixed bag for me.

They are still doing the humble bundles.
The store is just another option on top of that.

If you know of other trusted sites that do the same thing as this regularly I'd love to hear it. humblebundle has gradually become my favorite gaming service over GoG/Steam and Origin. If there are other places that do this sort of charity drive with great gaming bargins I'm all for it.

 

[GodzillaGuy92]

All the games there have a steam icon, that's because you can unlock them on your steam account if you want to, but that doesn't mean that they will force you to. Just because a game doesn't have a DRM-free icon doesn't mean that it MUST be unlocked via steam, it just means that it has some form of DRM in it, which could just be that you have to enter in a key during installation or on your first start-up.

Just out of curiosity: If you already refuse to use Steam on the basis that it's DRM (which is what I got from your posts, so apologies in advance if that's not it), why buy games with any form of DRM at all?