Humble Bundle 2 Is Live 217
Dayofswords writes "The first Humble Bundle was a monster success, with over 100,000 people donating over $1 million in total to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Child's Play, and of course the developers behind the games. The second bundle is now live (bundle site), containing five great games: Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans. Each game is DRM-free, the games work on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and you pay what you want and decide where your money goes."
Excellent! (Score:5, Insightful)
The games are fun, they work on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and the charities are good causes.
This is pretty much just win-win for everyone, a great way to not only *get* some nice games on Linux but *support* games on Linux, and to support a bunch of good causes as well. I'm less familiar with these games than the last bundle but I'll check them out and likely donate if I like even one of them.
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Re:Cortex Command not finished? (Score:4, Insightful)
Cortex Command is alpha software (unplayable for me, weird cursor bug), Osmos isn't as good as dozens of free Flash games, Machinarium won't download (for me and others--maybe it's working for some), Revenge of the Titans won't launch at all (no error, nothing pops up, just a brief busy cursor), and I just discovered that Braid, the whole reason I bought the bundle, doesn't let you re-map its controls to a gamepad, so I'm stuck dicking around with Joy2Key to get the game to work as well as goddamn Commander Keen.
If not for the charity aspect I'd be seeking a refund. Really, really wish I'd cranked up the charity sliders and left nothing for the devs.
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I know my calculus (Score:5, Insightful)
Games already made + money to fantastic charity + money to fantastic rights foundation = monster success
Not as impressed this time around. (Score:3, Insightful)
I was a big fan of the original Humble Bundle. I paid a fair price for the collection, but this time around I'm just not impressed. The only name in that collection that really sounds bells with me is Braid, and I'd be surprised if anyone didn't have a copy already. Osmos wasn't all that fun. I played the demo on steam a while back and felt like it was trailing behind free flash games. Two games aren't even finished yet and one of them is really early in development, and no idea when they'll be in a finished state (they can't all be Minecraft in terms of releasing early).
To be honest, I'd feel bad making the offer I think this bundle is worth.
Humble Bundle 1 (Score:5, Insightful)
Ah, the Humble Indie Bundle... the event that provided conclusive proof that many, many people who claim to pirate because "I can't afford", or "DRM sucks", or some other principle are completely full of shit. I hesitate to say most, but it was a significant enough number to really leave a bad taste in one's mouth
Here's hoping this one doesn't have a bunch of asshats essentially ripping off charity, but I rather don't think that'll be the case.
Re:Monster success? (Score:4, Insightful)
Much of which came from people who would not otherwise have even heard of their games, let alone considered buying them at any price at all.
This is called "pure profit". It's generally considered a good thing regardless of quantity.