Humble Bundle Launches Online Store For Games

sfcrazy writes "Humble Bundle has opened an online store called Humble Store, an extension of the sales system developed for managing the Humble Bundles. That puts Humble Bundle in the same league of Valve's Steam which sells works online via Steam Store. Humble Store, will continue the organization’s legacy of supporting causes. 'The Humble Store is a permanent addition to our Humble site that will allow our customers to buy great games at great prices 24/7 and support charity with every purchase. Ten percent of all purchases will go to vital causes like American Red Cross, Child’s Play, Electronic Frontier Foundation, World Land Trust and charity:water.'"

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Aaand, dead to me.

[girlintraining]

Ten percent of all purchases will go to vital causes like American Red Cross,

The Red Cross knew about the concentration camps in Germany during WWII, but did nothing to help them. Yes, there's proof. But besides throwing the Jews under the bus, they also won't accept blood donations from gay men. Wait, I know what you're going to say: it's the government and they're just going along with it. But small problem -- They went far above and beyond. They added an arbitrary list of African countries to their no-fly list (cough) without explanation beyond compliance with the aforementioned federal law. Except there's no federal guidelines on that -- they did that on their own initiative. And double discrimination bonus: Most of the people from those countries? Black. Related -- the current justification by the FDA is that removing this barrier and allowing those groups to donate blood would result in an increase in HIV-positive transfusions in .0000000016% of the blood supply. You be the judge there.

Here's the thing guys... there are some organizations I don't want to donate money to. I know you're thinking being charitable with the game purchase is a noble thing (and it is!), but why not let us choose which ones do, and do not, get our money? I will never donate to the Red Cross, and because of your policy, I will now never buy your games. Which is unfortunate, because I'm sure you have a few worth playing.