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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Most games can be registered with Steam

[jfbilodeau]

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.

Re:Most games can be registered with Steam

[Nerdfest]

Likewise. They also have a significant number of them that are available for Linux.

Re:Most games can be registered with Steam

[sts2nihon]

I was puzzled by this statement as well...if I pull up the same games in Steam, they're the same price. It appears that charity gets a kickback if you buy it through the Humble Bundle store, though, which is kinda cool.

Re:Most games can be registered with Steam

[Frosty Piss]

That's a lot of games. I'm not sure the Humble Bundle has offered that many games in all the bundles combined, at least since I've been paying attention... Would you care to list those games so we can get an accurate count?

I think what you meant to say was...

Liar, liar, pants on fire...

Re:Most games can be registered with Steam

[dwarfsoft]

By no means did I purchase all bundles, and some games (I only saw two in the quick look I had) were duplicated, and the list does not guarantee that they are available on Steam, but the count I got was 141:

A Virus Named TOM, Misfits Attic; Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Frictional Games; And Yet It Moves, Broken Rules; Anodyne, Analgesic Productions L.L.C.; Anomaly Korea, 11 bit studios; Anomaly Warzone Earth, 11 bit studios; Aquaria, Bit Blot; Atom Zombie Smasher, Blendo Games; Autonomous Prototype, Double Fine Productions; Avadon: The Black Fortress, Spiderweb Software; Avadon: The Black Fortress, Spiderweb Software; Avernum: Escape from the Pit, Spiderweb Software; Avernum: The Great Trials Trilogy, Spiderweb Software; Awesomenauts, Ronimo Games; BIT.TRIP BEAT, Gaijin Games; BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Gaijin Games; Bastion, Supergiant Games; Bastion, Supergiant Games; Beat Hazard Ultra, Cold Beam Games Ltd; Black Lake Prototype, Double Fine Productions; Blades of Avernum, Spiderweb Software; Blocks That Matter, Swing Swing Submarine; Botanicula, Amanita Design; Braid, Number None; Brazen Prototype, Double Fine Productions; Broken Sword: Director's Cut, Revolution Software; Brütal Legend, Double Fine Productions; Canabalt, Semi Secret Software; Capsized, Alientrap Games; Cave Story+, Studio Pixel; Chocolate Castle, Lexaloffle Games; City Generator Tech Demo, Introversion Software; Closure, Eyebrow Interactive; Cogs, Lazy 8 Studios; Cortex Command, Data Realms; Costume Quest, Double Fine Productions; Costume Quest Prototype, Double Fine Productions; Crayon Physics Deluxe, Kloonigames; DEFCON, Introversion Software; Darwinia, Introversion Software; Dear Esther, thechineseroom; Dungeon Defenders + All DLC, Trendy Entertainment; Dungeons of Dredmor, Gaslamp Games; Dustforce, Hitbox Team; Dynamite Jack, Hassey Enterprises, Inc.; EDGE, Mobigame; Eets Munchies, Klei Entertainment; English Country Tune, Increpare Games; Eufloria HD, Omni Systems; FEZ, Polytron Corporation; FTL: Faster than Light, Subset Games; Fieldrunners, Subatomic Studios; Fractal, Cipher Prime Studios; Frozen Synapse, Mode 7 Games; Gish, Cryptic Sea; Gratuitous Space Battles, Positech Games; Greed Corp, Vanguard Games; Hack n' Slash Prototype, Double Fine Productions; Hammerfight, Kranx Productions; Happy Song Prototype, Double Fine Productions; Hotline Miami, Dennaton Games; Incredipede, Northway Games; Indie Game: The Movie, BlinkWorks; Jack Claw, Frozenbyte; Jamestown, Final Form Games; Jasper's Journeys, Lexaloffle Games; King's Bounty: Armored Princess, 1C Company; King's Bounty: Crossworlds, 1C Company; King's Bounty: The Legend, 1C Company; Kooky, Biograf; LIMBO, Playdead; Legend of Grimrock, Almost Human; Little Inferno, Tomorrow Corporation; Lone Survivor, Jasper Byrne; Lugaru HD, Wolfire Games; Machinarium, Amanita Design; Mark of the Ninja, Klei Entertainment; McPixel, Sos; Multiwinia, Introversion Software; Nethergate: Resurrection, Spiderweb Software; NightSky, Nicalis; Offspring Fling, KPULV; Oil Rush, Unigine Corp; Organ Trail: Director's Cut, The Men Who Wear Many Hats; Osada, Amanita Design; Osmos, Hemisphere Games; Penumbra Overture, Frictional Games; Prison Architect Preorder, Introversion Software; Proteus, Ed Key & David Kanaga; Psychonauts, Double Fine Productions; Revenge of the Titans, Puppy Games; Rochard, Recoil Games; Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken, Ratloop Asia; Samorost 2, Amanita Design; Shadowgrounds, Frozenbyte; Shadowgrounds: Survivor, Frozenbyte; Shank, Klei Entertainment; Shank 2, Klei Entertainment; Shatter, Sidhe; Snapshot, Retro Affect; Snuggle Truck, Owlchemy Labs; Solar 2, Murudai; Space Pirates and Zombies, MinMax Games; SpaceChem, Zachtronics; Spacebase DF-9 Prototype, Double Fine Productions; Spirits, Spaces of Play; Splice, Cipher Prime Studios; Stacking, Double Fine Productions; Stealth Bastard Deluxe, Curve Studios; Steel Storm: Burning Retribution, Kot in Action Creative Artel; Super Hexagon, Terry Cavanagh; Super Meat Boy, Team Meat; Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Superbr

Re:Most games can be registered with Steam

[dwarfsoft]

And to clarify, I now have about 150 games on steam, and at least 100 of those came from Humble bundles (I haven't purchased many from steam, but I have added non-steam games to my library).

Re:Most games can be registered with Steam

[c0d3g33k]

Would you care to list those games so we can get an accurate count? (Not a troll - I'm genuinely curious about how many Steam games Humble Bundle has offered in it's history).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Humble_Bundles

By my very quick and informal count (a single pass through that page counting the games listed as having Steam keys), there are around 107 Steam games total, including the latest bundles from this week. Humble Bundles often include games that were offered in previous bundles (eg. Osmos), so dupes probably pull that number down to around 100 or less. So the GP was close to right if granted poetic license.

Re:As a side note about Steam...

[ArcadeMan]

The thing I hate about Steam is that the Steam client itself takes more time to load than World of Warcraft. This is on a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini with 8GB of RAM, I don't know if Steam is like that on Windows and Linux.

Impact on Future Bundle Pricing

[SlashdotOgre]

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).

Re:Aaand, dead to me.

[evilviper]

The Red Cross knew about the concentration camps in Germany during WWII, but did nothing to help them. Yes, there's proof.

Your link says in no uncertain terms: "Unfortunately, documentary evidence is incomplete and leaves room for uncertainty"

they also won't accept blood donations from gay men

That's not really persecution there... Being able to skip-out on blood drives and ditch military conscription seem like POSITIVES to me.

Now, if they wouldn't give TRANSFUSIONS *to* gay men, that would be something different entirely.

Re:Aaand, dead to me.

[HeckRuler]

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.

Ok.

There's a statistically higher number of gay men and africans with AIDS.
There's a percentage of blood that slips through quality control and doesn't get tested.
Globally around 85 million units of red blood cells are transfused in a given year.

Cite the 0.0000000016%, otherwise I believe you're pulling a number out of your ass.

Hey, did you know that, in the past and currently, there were complete asshats that did asshat-like things who were part of the gay community, the church, open-source movement, BSA, childsplay, England, AnimalAid, academia, and/or $YOURFAVORITEORGANIZATION?

Re:Aaand, dead to me.

[Stormy Dragon]

The Red Cross knew about the concentration camps in Germany during WWII, but did nothing to help them.

What exactly do you expect them to have done? Send one of their armored divisions to overthrow Hitler?

they also won't accept [harbus.org] blood donations from gay men.

Because federal law won't let them.

Re:As a side note about Steam...

[khellendros1984]

Well, that *is* a chip that came out nearly 5 1/2 years ago (assuming the mid-2010 Mac Mini that used a mid-2008 CPU), and the drive is an older laptop form factor drive.

Replace the 5400RPM drive with something snappier (SSD, or at least a 7200rpm platter drive), and you'll get better load times.