Humble Indie Bundle back with Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle

http://www.humblebundle.com/?unique

by jolan • 15 years ago

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masterzora4• 15 years ago

I like the new twist where you only get the extra games if you beat the average. It's always pained me a little bit to see how low the averages have been on these things for some quality games. I understand that the participants in these bundles are willing to accept those prices or they wouldn't do this so it's not as if they're unfair or anything, but I'd hope that people would have given better value judgments. I hope this new twist helps!

baddox• 15 years ago

While the average price may seem low, I was under the impression that everyone involved with these bundles considered them wildly successful.

masterzora4• 15 years ago

Of course they're wildly successful: they're selling a number of copies they otherwise wouldn't and make a good chunk of change for the devs and for charity. But that doesn't mean I can't be sad at the low averages as well.

floriancargoet2• 15 years ago

It's a great incentive to pay more than average but it's nothing new. The 2nd bundle already included the 1st one if you paid more than average. Source: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/12/Your-Humble-Bundle-just-doub...

masterzora4• 15 years ago

It's kind of new. The second bundle included the first one by default for a while and eventually the added the "pay more than average" trick. It's an entirely different game to start it that way from minute one.

scotty792• 15 years ago

I have bought all humble indie bundles so far. I was always paying below average.

I didn't have time to play any of the games though so I have probably not exploited anyone's hard work (yet).

masterzora4• 15 years ago

May I ask why you were paying below average? The average has always been what I would call "ridiculously low" and, except for some form of financial hardship, I don't understand what good reason there is for not ponying up a more respectable amount.

cookiecaper3• 15 years ago

Not really a "bundle" when you just have one game. I hope that the Humble Bundle people don't make a habit of this, the inconsistency will diminish their brand significantly imo.

reidrac3• 15 years ago

Besides... "All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux."

Not completely true in my experience (Fedora 64bits) with previous bundle. I guess Linux support it's less important, and 3D makes everything more complicated :(

Inufu• 15 years ago

Could you detail the problems you had? IIRC everything worked for my on Ubuntu 64bit.

chaostheory3• 15 years ago

> if you pay more than the average price, we'll throw in the entire Humble Frozenbyte Bundle — a $45 value!

maggit• 15 years ago

Exactly! If you pay more, they will throw in an additional bundle.

So it's still the "bundle" of one item plus an additional actual bundle of several items.

teamonkey• 15 years ago

They kept on adding more games to the last bundle. I don't know if this one is going to be the same but I'm interested to see if they add more this time too.

bostonvaulter2• 15 years ago

Now they've added SpaceChem!

keenerd4• 15 years ago

I am a little annoyed with how Mode7 is handling this. I bought it for full price a while ago (because everyone said it worked great in Wine, and it does). Still no linux download for their previous customers!

They should have

1) quietly released the linux build to their customers so that we could find bugs (and I am hearing there are a lot of bugs, good luck getting it to run on nvidia)

2) waited three months (while polishing the linux build) and been the big title for the next "real" bundle

ido2• 15 years ago

I don't know Mode7, but as an indie-developer myself I can tell that you that if HIB knocked on my door I wouldn't tell them to wait 3 months.

I am not sure you realize how much of a king-maker/lottery HIB is.

For one developer I personally know whose game was on one of the previous bundles, it single-handedly brought him from losing with little to no chance of ever recouping costs to paying for more than a year of salaries for the 3 people involved thereby financing their next game.

That's mostly due to the money HIB brought in directly but also due to bringing a lot publicity that helped them after the bundle was over.

It's basically the indie-games equivalent of a brand new unfunded startup getting a phone call from PG asking if they want to join the next YC, starting in 1 week - you don't say no to an opportunity like that.

chaostheory3• 15 years ago

For those who haven't played Frozen Synapse yet, to me it feels like 21st century chess.

doomlaser• 15 years ago

Don't forget that the Humble Bundle guys are also backed by a $4.7 million venture capital investment by Sequoia: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34255/Humble_Bundle_Backe...

Puts an interesting spin on the whole situation. The sliders are set to give the organizers 15% of the gross, and they claim that when all is said and done, that's approximately the rate that they actually get.

How many more bundles until Sequoia turns a profit? What's been the total gross so far?

Anyway, an interesting business / promotional model.

reitzensteinm• 15 years ago

I assume (with zero inside knowledge) that the Humble Bundle guys have big(ger) things planned in the future - otherwise what's the point of taking that much funding in the first place?

darklajid• 15 years ago

Don't get the negative vibes here (complaining about the number of games included, for example).

I watched the trailers and videos for that game [1] and _wow_, this will be the 3rd? 4th? (got every one so far, I guess) bundle I'll purchase. It's quite on topic as well, in my opinion: The idea is so frikkin' simple. Well executed (didn't play yet, but the videos and reviews so far are promising), this is a well played "launch". I'm impressed.

1: http://www.frozensynapse.com/media.html

huhtenberg• 15 years ago

I don't know. The bundle with Machinarium and Auditorium - that was truly awesome with original games that were one of a kind. but this one... it is a bundle of, essentially, the same run-and-shoot game. Maybe it's me getting old, but this is just not interesting.

mrud• 15 years ago

And World of Goo (and VVVVVV). But after watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJrUY27O0Y i really think this is also a very cool and interesting game.

dorian-graph• 15 years ago

That's what I thought too. I've always been interested in Frozen Synapse because of the strategy part (Which reminds me of the old Rainbow Six games) so this is a chance for me to get it cheaper than normal.

7rurl• 15 years ago

Frozen Synapse is not a run and shoot game. Instead it is a turn based tactics game.

judgardner• 15 years ago

Description of Frozen Synapse reminds me of RoboSport, glad to see games like this are still being created.

hennypenny• 15 years ago

Not a big Frozen Synapse fan here but I like donating to the EFF through these things. Since they have Amazon payments it is dead simple and it helps me expand my Steam library. In the past they have added more games later in the offer, hopefully the trend continues.

RobLach• 15 years ago

I understand having too many games and having to cut some out.

I don't understand having too little games. There's dozens of indies who would love to have their game in one of these bundles.

sbochins• 15 years ago

They really shouldn't release these bundles that often. Last bundle had some really great games. And they included an earlier bundle. It was around 10 games. For this one all you get is Frozen Synapse. Personally, I was never really interested in that game. Maybe if they released a proper bundle with a lot of variety, I'd be willing to put down some money. I only played 3 or so games from the last bundle even though I had access to 10. I wasn't interested in the other 7.

ddw• 15 years ago

Ha Linux customers (including myself) pay twice the amount as Windows customers!

To the people complaining here - seriously? Are we so used to just torrenting everything that you can't throw a few bucks at this? The average purchase to get all of the games is currently $4.53.

Angostura• 15 years ago

I play games, I buy games.

I looked at this Web site and didn't have a clue what it was all about.

Either I'm irredemably dim, or their front page could do with some work.

wingerlang• 15 years ago

Try reading the text. I mean, the tagline is: "pay what you want ... get games" and this is repeated like everywhere.

Humble Indie Bundle back with Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle

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