Indie Pay-What-You-Want Bundle Reaches $1 Million

Spinnacre writes "The week-long Humble Indie Bundle, a pay-what-you-feel-adequate promotion, reached a million dollars in total contributions with just 50 minutes of sale time remaining. For a minimum price of a penny, gamers could get DRM-free downloads for World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Lugaru, Penumbra: Overture, and Samorost 2. The bundle gained great success immediately after being featured on sites such as Ars Technica and Slashdot for followup blog posts about game piracy and multi-platform gaming." According to this tweet from Steve Swink, the milestone means that several games will release their source code. In fact Wolfire is in the process of creating a public source code repository for Lugaru; Aquaria, Gish, and Penumbra: Overture are also due to be opened up within the next week.

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Thing is, a lot of folks probably felt like they were donating to a good cause when they paid for this bundle, and upped their payments accordingly, whereas there would be no positive karma from giving more than a penny to EA.

Kind of a really wrong thing to say. If EA were to offer some of their better older games in a bundle and let the downloader set his own price. I would pay. I would pay to show EA that it can work. I would reard EA for trying the model. As I suspect many would. If all you want to do is whine and bithc and then fuck them over if they try to do the right thing then I think that maybe you are a bit too filled with hate to do yourself any good.