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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.'"
I was on the humble store not that long ago looking at games. They were overpriced and i left. Now they are launching it?
The Humble Store is not competing with Steam. Most games that it sells can/have to be activated on Steam.
I must have over one hundred games in my Steam library that come from the Humble Bundle.
Goodbye Slashdot. You've changed.
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It seems that Steam is closer and closer to getting their lunch eaten. More sites are offering better classic games and with Amazon in on the fray it's only going to become tougher for Steam. I haven't bought a boxed game in years and lived on Steam exclusively about 18 months ago but today I hardly ever go into Steam. Aside from HalfLife 3 I just don't see much going on there that I can't get somewhere else.
Steam better hope that people migrate to SteamBox and that PS4 and XBO fail or they're going to be a second rate player in the market in a couple years.
It will be interesting to see if this move will impact future bundles. I am curious if they will be willing to cannibalize their own store sales, and if other vendors might be less willing to work with them now that they have a permanent store (and might be viewed as a competitor).
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
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.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Am I the only one that laughed when I saw vital causes next to American Red Cross, Child’s Play, Electronic Frontier Foundation, World Land Trust and charity:water?
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There is a lot more wrong with the group than just that. And I'm not too crazy about the other groups either. Quite frankly, I would be willing to pay more if I knew that none of the money was going to these "charities". That doesn't seem to be an option, but not buying is.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
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currently humblebundle.com/store doesn't load in my linux distro using firefox (24.1.0 esr) and for the past few weeks the weekly and bundle pages haven't worked properly either, i can see the advertised games but the javascript for selecting the payment amount doesn't work, once purchased (using firefox on windows vm) the download page won't respond to clicks to show steam keys or select bittorrent, merely scrolling to the top of the page if not already there. i emailed support, they recommend using a different browser, well konqueror doesn't work either (always used to along with firefox) and i'm not installing a browser specially for one web site
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Every bundle has had the option to change how the money you pay is divided. You can give it all to charity, all to developers, or for whatever silly reason, all to the Humble Tip option if you want. You can also customize which charity, which developer, gets how much of the alloted portion of the total. Personally, what with all the things happening lately, I've been favoring the EFF heavily in my purchases.
Goddammit just when I get my first +5 the Beta rolls out and kills everything
That's how Humble Bundles work. The Humble Store is different. It has fixed prices and the customer has no control over how their money is used. It is possible developers have a say but this has not yet been made clear.
+0 Meh
In case this doesn't work out, let's hope someone uses something to this effect:
Humble Bundles stumbles; CEO bumbles, mumble stockholders.
Lizzie Cuevas, Director of Communications at Humble Bundle Inc. says:
"The charity split is and always will be a fixed 10% of Humble Store purchases. The charity list will change with time and giving both developers and customers the option to choose charities is something we will consider in the future."
http://indiestatik.com/2013/11/12/humble-store/
+0 Meh