RE: Humble Indie Bundle X! + The Humble Weekly Sale: Amanita & Friends
100th post in the thread! Couldn't have asked for better timing!
Here we go!
PWYW is a fantastic bunch:
And for beating the average, which is rather unusually descending from a pretty good $5.59:
All games are available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and soundtracks for all games are included. Bonuses will be added for BTA buyers on Tuesday, January 14th, 2014, at 2 P.M. EST.
The PWYW tier here is great, and is what you'd expect of an Indie Bundle. The BTA tier is good, but I think the choices are a little baffling. Reus was a 2013 game that saw a good amount of hype, but not more than some of the others here. And while Surgeon Simulator 2013 saw a ton of coverage by, like, everyone, I don't know if people really really wanted to play it as much as watch it being played. I suppose these games make sense in the BTA tier if you look at the rest of the bundle and realize these are the newest releases, but... I don't know, man. This feel like what I would have expected out of HIB9--great PWYW stuff, with BTA as a nice bonus but not integral part of the bundle. And HIB9 felt like what I would have expected HIBX to be--popular, critically acclaimed games from the past year all in one bundle. I don't know, maybe it's a timing thing since a lot of hyped games come out in the fall, which are usually what the fall HIB includes. This just doesn't feel like the big huge HIB 10 one would think the 10th HIB warrants. But, ah, that's just nitpicking, this is a great bundle. ^_^
One thing that's interesting: It seems Humble themselves might have thought the BTA games weren't going to be enough to carry the average price to a nice, high figure, as aside from the usual 20 or so purchases that the Humblers make to create an average price for people to beat there was something else: The first 1000 people to beat $10 in this bundle received the popular Starbound, normally sold for $15. Those 1000 copies sold out in 2 minutes, but it was just enough purchases to jack up the average all the way to like $7.80. So why is it $5.59 now and still dropping (seriously, it's gone to $5.58 in just the time I've been writing this...)? Obviously many of the buyers here simply don't want the BTA games. This is probably because of The Great Origin Divide.
See, up until Origin Bundle, Humble was doing very well for itself--average number of Indie Bundle purchases were always like 500,000, and THQ Bundle almost broke 1,000,000 if I recall correctly. But then boom, Origin Bundle hit, and right after Deep Silver Bundle, too. Those two bundles in a row drew in tons upon tons of attention--Humble's userbase doubled from THQ Bundle's 1,000,000 purchases, to 2,000,000, all in the span of two bundles. And those new purchasers were not the super-duper-Indie-loving people Humble had previously drawn in--a great majority of them wanted every bundle to be Origin Bundle. That's why the Mobile and Comedy Bundles drew in even more ire than their ilk had previously, and why the Android Bundles went under some name changes--to address this new base of users.
But what does that have to do with HIBX? Well, I think HIBX is at this point most similar to HIB8; a great PWYW tier, with a BTA tier that includes a game not too too many had heard of (Proteus) and a game practically everyone had heard great things about (Hotline Miami). HIB8 was before The Great Origin Divide, and what was the average purchase? Around $7, and it never really deviated from that. I don't know, maybe HIB8 and HIBX have less in common than I think since, again, Surgeon Simulator is something people like to watch more than play, but I think The Origin Crowd are certainly at work here. Interesting stuff.
100th post in the thread! Couldn't have asked for better timing!
Here we go!
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Humble Indie Bundle... X!
Humble Indie Bundle... X!
PWYW is a fantastic bunch:
- To the Moon
- Normally $10
- Demo available from the developer
- Let's Look At by NorthernLion
- Soundtrack normally $5 | Game and soundtrack are normally sold together in a bundle for $12.50
- Joe Danger 2: The Movie
- Normally $15
- WTF Is... by TotalBiscuit
- Review by CGR Undertow
- Quick Look by Giant Bomb
- Test Chamber by Game Informer
- Let's Look At by NorthernLion
- DLC not included
- Papo & Yo
- Normally $15
- Review by CGR Undertow
- Let's Look At by NorthernLion
- Soundtrack normally $6 | Game and soundtrack are normally sold together in a bundle for $17
- BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
- Normally $15
- WTF Is... by TotalBiscuit
- Review by Classic Game Room
- Review by CGR Undertow
- Quick Look by Giant Bomb
- Let's Look At by NorthernLion
- Test Chamber by Game Informer (this was a popular game!)
- Soundtrack normally sold for $10
And for beating the average, which is rather unusually descending from a pretty good $5.59:
- Reus
- Normally $10
- NerdCubed Plays...
- Quick Look by Giant Bomb
- Let's Look At by NorthernLion
- Soundtrack normally ~$4
- Surgeon Simulator 2013
- Normally $10
- This is a paid version of a free game created in a 48 hour game jam. That free version can be found online at Kongregate
- NerdCubed Plays...
- Let's Look At by NorthernLion
- Soundtrack normally ~$4
All games are available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and soundtracks for all games are included. Bonuses will be added for BTA buyers on Tuesday, January 14th, 2014, at 2 P.M. EST.
The PWYW tier here is great, and is what you'd expect of an Indie Bundle. The BTA tier is good, but I think the choices are a little baffling. Reus was a 2013 game that saw a good amount of hype, but not more than some of the others here. And while Surgeon Simulator 2013 saw a ton of coverage by, like, everyone, I don't know if people really really wanted to play it as much as watch it being played. I suppose these games make sense in the BTA tier if you look at the rest of the bundle and realize these are the newest releases, but... I don't know, man. This feel like what I would have expected out of HIB9--great PWYW stuff, with BTA as a nice bonus but not integral part of the bundle. And HIB9 felt like what I would have expected HIBX to be--popular, critically acclaimed games from the past year all in one bundle. I don't know, maybe it's a timing thing since a lot of hyped games come out in the fall, which are usually what the fall HIB includes. This just doesn't feel like the big huge HIB 10 one would think the 10th HIB warrants. But, ah, that's just nitpicking, this is a great bundle. ^_^
One thing that's interesting: It seems Humble themselves might have thought the BTA games weren't going to be enough to carry the average price to a nice, high figure, as aside from the usual 20 or so purchases that the Humblers make to create an average price for people to beat there was something else: The first 1000 people to beat $10 in this bundle received the popular Starbound, normally sold for $15. Those 1000 copies sold out in 2 minutes, but it was just enough purchases to jack up the average all the way to like $7.80. So why is it $5.59 now and still dropping (seriously, it's gone to $5.58 in just the time I've been writing this...)? Obviously many of the buyers here simply don't want the BTA games. This is probably because of The Great Origin Divide.
See, up until Origin Bundle, Humble was doing very well for itself--average number of Indie Bundle purchases were always like 500,000, and THQ Bundle almost broke 1,000,000 if I recall correctly. But then boom, Origin Bundle hit, and right after Deep Silver Bundle, too. Those two bundles in a row drew in tons upon tons of attention--Humble's userbase doubled from THQ Bundle's 1,000,000 purchases, to 2,000,000, all in the span of two bundles. And those new purchasers were not the super-duper-Indie-loving people Humble had previously drawn in--a great majority of them wanted every bundle to be Origin Bundle. That's why the Mobile and Comedy Bundles drew in even more ire than their ilk had previously, and why the Android Bundles went under some name changes--to address this new base of users.
But what does that have to do with HIBX? Well, I think HIBX is at this point most similar to HIB8; a great PWYW tier, with a BTA tier that includes a game not too too many had heard of (Proteus) and a game practically everyone had heard great things about (Hotline Miami). HIB8 was before The Great Origin Divide, and what was the average purchase? Around $7, and it never really deviated from that. I don't know, maybe HIB8 and HIBX have less in common than I think since, again, Surgeon Simulator is something people like to watch more than play, but I think The Origin Crowd are certainly at work here. Interesting stuff.
