Latest Humble Bundle Hits $1 Million 276
dylan_- writes "The Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle — where you pay whatever you want for a collection of games — has just hit the $1 million mark with 1 day and 9 hours left to buy. The games are DRM free, available for Windows, Mac and Linux, and include a donation to the EFF and Child's Play charity. As with previous bundles, Linux users are the most generous, paying an average $9.18, Mac users come in second paying $6.58 leaving Windows users lagging behind, paying $4.11 on average." These stats are presented right on the page dynamically, so you might see slightly different figures — the dollar figure should only be moving one direction, though.
Re:Payments reflects platform and TCO? (Score:2, Informative)
TCO? Really? I like your nick, man. Heh.
It's supply and demand. Windows users have a huge catalog of games, Mac is in second place, and we all know where Linux sits. Of course Windows users are going to pay the least.
Re:Most generous? (Score:3, Informative)
Hi, I'm an indie game developer supporting Linux. Supporting all the different distros isn't really that bad, you just have to avoid depending on anything distro-specific. That means including ALL dependencies (except hardware specific stuff like opengl, obviously). There's really nothing special about this, you do the same thing under Windows. You do have to watch your glibc version dependency though (since distributing or statically linking glibc is a bad idea), which is a little more work, but not really that bad. Best is to set up a chroot or VM with gentoo or something and do all your building in there. After the initial setup you can just do builds like normal and it all works out. That little bit of initial effort saves you a LOT of pain in the long run.
Also, Linux is about to get a good Steam-like game distribution platform: Desura.
Re:And (Score:5, Informative)
The situation TheTurtleMoves described is one of the biggest issues with PayPal I hear about fairly regularly. They don't like something, they get a complaint, they'll yank money out of a linked account without even a pause to investigate, question it, contact you, etc. Everyone I've talked to in that situation then faces an uphill battle in which they try to convince PayPal to look again and handle the situation responsibly and fairly. Apparently contacting Paypal and getting a useful response is a miracle in and of itself.