Humble Bundle Launches Online Store For Games 93
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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Indeed. If this is just another store selling steam keys, don't bother creating it in the first place.
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but it's for teh sharities! non profit!
(= all company share of the profit goes to staff).
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It looks like they all require Steam too. What is the point?
I just had a look, and of the nine games listed on the front page, five of them had a DRM-free sign. Just because they have Steam keys available doesn't preclude a direct download version too. Not all of the games were on GOG either, and those that are there are currently at full price (though GOG has had some pretty aggressive sales lately so it may be worth waiting).
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A big differentiator for me is that GoG (as great as they are) do not, despite many requests, support Linux.
Humble Store gives a nice place to purchase Linux indie games without going through Steam.
Most games can be registered with Steam (Score:5, Informative)
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 (Score:4, Informative)
Likewise. They also have a significant number of them that are available for Linux.
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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.
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. Most bundles have around 6-9 games, and many of those weren't on Steam.
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).
Re:Most games can be registered with Steam (Score:4, Funny)
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...
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No, what I meant to say was exactly what I said. Just because I haven't been slavishly following all the Humble Bundles doesn't mean GP was wrong. That just seemed like a lot of Steam games, since many of the bundles I purchased didn't have Steam versions. Doesn't mean there aren't over a hundred that are.
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You have no sense of humor. Why am I not surprised.
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You have no sense of humor. Why am I not surprised.
My humor detector alerted me to the presence of funny (Category: Schoolyard Humor, Subclass: Rhymes). I mentally completed the rhyme from memory ("Nose as long as a telephone wire") and was amused for a brief moment as I reminisced about the old schoolyard days. Thanks for that. Then it occurred to me that implying someone was a liar wasn't very cool, so I clarified. Humor shouldn't take precedence over civility.
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Humorous? Check
Relevant to the topic at hand? Check
Factually accurate? While several commenters disagree, I'm willing to call this one a NO.
Intentionally factually incorrect? Highly doubtful.
So, it's funny, relevant, but incorrect. I'd call a "4" a reasonable rating. Factual correctness is highly overrated, particularly for a humorous post.
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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
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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.
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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
I think you are dramatically underestimating how many Steam games there are. I just started counting my Steam keys, and by the time I counted my fifth bundle (four Android bundles and the Deep Silver bundle) I had already counted 31 unique games. I am not going to bother counting the other twenty-odd bundles, because I have no doubt that they will easily get past the 100 mark.
Here is what I found so far:
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Why? That's what the lazyweb is for.
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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, Superbrothers + CAPY + Jim Guthrie; Swords & Soldiers HD, Ronimo Games; TRAUMA, Krystian Majewski; The Bard's Tale, inXile entertainment; The Basement Collection, Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel; The Binding Of Isaac, Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl; The Binding of Isaac + Wrath of the Lamb DLC, Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl; The First Avernum Trilogy, Spiderweb Software; The Geneforge Saga, Spiderweb Software; The White Birch Prototype, Double Fine Productions; Thomas Was Alone, Mike Bithell; Ticket to Ride, Days of Wonder; Tiny & Big in Grandpa's Leftovers, Black Pants Game Studio; Toki Tori, Two Tribes; Torchlight, Runic Games; Trine, Frozenbyte; Trine 2: Complete Story, Frozenbyte; Uplink, Introversion Software; VVVVVV, Terry Cavanagh; Vessel, Strange Loop Games; Voxatron, Lexaloffle Games; Voxel Tech Demo, Introversion Software; Waking Mars, Tiger Style; Windosill, Vector Park; Wizorb, Tribute Games; World Of Goo, 2D Boy; Worms Reloaded, Team 17; Zen Bound 2, Secret Exit Ltd.; Zen Puzzle Garden, Lexaloffle Games
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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).
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I'm counting 396 products in my Humble library. That includes all games, books, videos, etc...
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Oups! Bad counting on my part... Lots of dups.
Here's the list of Linux downloadable on my account: A Virus Named TOM, Air Forte, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, And Yet It Moves, Anodyne, Anomaly Korea, Anomaly Korea, Anomaly Warzone Earth, Anomaly Warzone Earth: Mobile Campaign, Aquaria, Atom Zombie Smasher, Avadon: The Black Fortress, Avadon: The Black Fortress, Awesomenauts, BIT.TRIP BEAT, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Bastion, Battle Frogs, Beat Hazard Ultra, Blocks That Matter, Botanicula, Braid, Broken Sword: Director'
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I'm confused. "The Swapper" is $14.99 on Steam, but it's only $4.99 through the Humble Store. How is that the same price?
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Unfortunately that's not actually true.
Of the Humble Store's nine launch titles, only five show a DRM-free icon. Presumably the others are Steam-only, which has been the case for many Humble Bundle games.
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Hell, that wasn't even true for the Bundles before they got into putting up YADDGS. More than one recent bundle has been DRM/Steam Required.
After the bad joke that was buying "indie" games to see EA's bloated chancre fill up my screen, ditching the No DRM promise was the last straw. I stopped paying attention to them.
What is the Humble Bundle? (Score:2)
Pls lern 2 rite sumari guise.
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Yeah on that basis we could just replace the whole of Slashdot with, "Google for recent news then ramble angrily for a while somewhere."
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The Humble Bundles (previously known as Humble Indie Bundles) are a series of collections ("bundles") of digital creations that are sold and distributed online at a price determined by the purchaser. The bundles are typically offered on a semi-regular basis during a two-week period; sales often include bonus games or media offered mid-week through the sale for those that have already purchased the bundle or otherwise pay more than the average. Early bundles featured independently developed, multi-platform games (including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms) provided without digital rights management (DRM). Later bundles have included those geared towards games from established developers, games for Android-based devices, bundles promoting game jams, and in two cases, a bundle consisting of mainstream titles from a major publisher. Sales of bundles are split between the developers/creators, the Humble Bundle operators, and one or more charities including Child's Play, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, charity: water, and the American Red Cross, with the buyer able to set the revenue split between these groups.
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What is this 'google'?
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Funny, Steam loads well enough on a modern system that has a CPU that isn't 4 generations old paired with a hard drive that isn't a 5400 RPM, low buffer, SATA 1 snail.
The Core2 used in that Mac Mini is a Penryn (I'm being generous here, it could be an older Merom) from the 2007/2008 timeframe. Intel has released Nehalem, Sandy Bridge, and Haswell since then (with their accompanying mid-lifecycle refreshes).
The drive wedged into that tiny case is probably also a 5400 RPM laptop drive, with maybe an 8 MB buff
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Replace the 5400RPM drive with something snappier (SSD, or at least a 7200rpm platter drive), and you'll get better load times.
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No Steam/Valve doesn't get a cut from steam keys, but they still get first place for advestising their store when using steam, so I wouldn't worry about them.
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It doesn't matter to Valve that you can pick up old and low-budget games for cheaper elsewhere most of them time. There have been intermittent cases of GoG being cheaper than Steam on certain for a couple of years now. But it's irrelevant. Why?
First, these titles are a pretty small part of Steam's market.
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As one of those people that love and hate steam, I must say it is nice to not have to deal with physical media and DRM. After all, most modern DRM is a phone-home that breaks onces the servers die. Steam, while still being an internet-connected application, can be run in offline mode and isn't incredibly intrusive. I have it running on my arcade cabinet that I keep disconnected from WiFi unless I need to update or download something. While I get a nag screen for being unable to connect (anyone know how to t
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Haven't tried that in a long time, but it used to be:
The admittedly weird and counter-intuitive thing is to be online to go offline ...
Impact on Future Bundle Pricing (Score:3)
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).
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Your link says in no uncertain terms: "Unfortunately, documentary evidence is incomplete and leaves room for uncertainty"
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 di
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Your link says in no uncertain terms: "Unfortunately, documentary evidence is incomplete and leaves room for uncertainty"
A slightly longer quote: "Unfortunately, documentary evidence is incomplete and leaves room for uncertainty. Some conclusions can nevertheless be drawn from the works of historians[...] And later: "there is no doubt that senior ICRC officials had become aware of the genocide by the summer of 1942." and then "it is known of course that the German Red Cross was itself under Nazi control and that its main leaders took part in the persecution and genocide." And the closer: "These actions are not negligible, sin
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Do you know what a "sentence" is? I ask because I definitely quoted it in it's entirety, with the sole exception of omitting the period...
Let's try another quote:
In 1942: " Burckhardt added that since there was no place where they could be resettled, this could only mean one thing."
Except that really wasn't true, until Madagascar was recaptured by the British in November 1942:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan [wikipedia.org]
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That doesn't change the fact that being excluded from responsibilities is hardly persecution.
And if you're broke, and everyone else can donate plasma or blood for cash and you can't... That's not discriminatory either.
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Except it's sorta completely illegal to pay someone for blood, tissue, or organ donations.
To be fair, there are some loop-holes, allowing "gifts" to donors, like so:
http://www.idle.slashdot.org/story/10/01/12/1713201/Bloodmobile-Offers-Beer-To-Blood-Donors [slashdot.org]
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I should also mention that, yes, Plasma is one of those loop-hole cases, where most donors get a tiny amount of cash for their time. But any number of other factors can disqualify anyone from doing that.
And there's a good FDA write-up quite intelligently explaining the policy:
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/BloodBloodProducts/QuestionsaboutBlood/ucm108186.htm [fda.gov]
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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,
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Cite the 0.0000000016%, otherwise I believe you're pulling a number out of your ass.
You mean like the link I provided to you in my original post that you totally ignored? Let me put it up there for you again: The link you missed [harbus.org].
And let me now quote for you directly from that link, since apparently your left mouse button broke:
The FDA consulted its panel of scientific advisers in September of 2000 about revising the policy regarding MSM disqualification to allow MSM to donate if they have been abstinent for five years, and the panel voted 7-6 against revising the standards. Using a series of statistical assumptions, a panel doctor estimated that potentially 1 or 2 infected units of blood per year could reach the blood supply if the policy were relaxed. The U.S. collects approximately 12 million units of blood per year.
1.5 divided by 12 million equals... wait for it... 0.0(...)016%
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?
Yes, I do. But few organizations have made it an institutional priority to discriminate against them, and for those few that have, I take special care in not supporting them. And for the record, I don't w
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What exactly do you expect them to have done? Send one of their armored divisions to overthrow Hitler?
Because federal law won't let them.
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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?
No, I expect them to have gone to the allied powers, who did have armored divisions and tell them what was going on. The allies arrived in Germany weeks after the landing to find bodies rotting in open air, where the Germans had simply locked all the gates and abandoned them to fate. They could have saved those lives -- and they didn't. They made a choice not to. At no point during the war, until the pictures were on the front pages of all the newspapers and the true horror of what had been going on inside
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I'm actually thinki
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Out of curiosity, do you think that Red Cross employees are aliens from another planet, or do you think that Red Cross employees in Germany might've been Germans and that they might've sympathized with the Nazis?
If you read the link, you'd know that headquarters knew; They were in Switzerland. They remained silent. It wasn't just those "evil germans".
I'm actually thinking that IBM (a non-German company who helped Germany) and BMW (a German company who built weapons for the Nazis) are actually more culpable for harm done during WW2 than the Red Cross is. (I assume you're still boycotting them.)
Yes, actually.
ersonally, I was pretty annoyed that the Red Cross was offering first aid to Jihadi fighters in Afghanistan/Pakistan.
Well, the same could be said about Doctors Without Borders; A life is a life. Unless, apparently, you were Jewish or gay. And that's what I have a problem with; Selective application of ideals. Yeah, they say they've learned their lesson... but have they? The Red Cross has been getting caught in too many controversies even recently... google their hatchet
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1. The allies were perfectly aware of what was going on in the concentration camps. They just did not consider dealing it to be a priority. So your proposed course of action would have absolutely zero effect on what happened.
2. The Red Cross (along with the AMA and AABB) has been against the ban on MSM blood donation since 2006.
Ten percent of purchases will go to vital causes (Score:2)
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That's how Humble Bundles work. The Humble Store is different. It has fixed prices and the customer has no control over how their money is used. It is possible developers have a say but this has not yet been made clear.
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Lizzie Cuevas, Director of Communications at Humble Bundle Inc. says:
"The charity split is and always will be a fixed 10% of Humble Store purchases. The charity list will change with time and giving both developers and customers the option to choose charities is something we will consider in the future."
http://indiestatik.com/2013/11/12/humble-store/ [indiestatik.com]
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Also from the WHO site:
25 countries are not able to screen all donated blood for one or more of the above infections. [HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and syphilis]
24% blood donations in low-income countries are not screened following basic quality procedures which include documented standard operating procedures and participation in an external quality assurance scheme.
The prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs) in blood donations in high-income countries is considerably lower than in low- and middle-income countries. The prevalence of HIV in blood donations in high-income countries is 0.003% (median), in comparison with 0.1% and 0.6% in middle- and low-income countries respectively.
With
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What is the reasoning behind that?
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The Red Cross is strictly apolitical. Only this allows them to go and help everywhere. As soon as they would take sides in a conflict, they're out of (their) business. The more lunatic a leader is (think e.g. Assad/Syria these days), the more likely he would deny the RC to enter his country and help. And most of the time (the people in) these countries need help the most.
"Vital" causes? (Score:1)
Am I the only one that laughed when I saw vital causes next to American Red Cross, Child’s Play, Electronic Frontier Foundation, World Land Trust and charity:water?
site not working in magiea 3 64bit (Score:2)
currently humblebundle.com/store doesn't load in my linux distro using firefox (24.1.0 esr) and for the past few weeks the weekly and bundle pages haven't worked properly either, i can see the advertised games but the javascript for selecting the payment amount doesn't work, once purchased (using firefox on windows vm) the download page won't respond to clicks to show steam keys or select bittorrent, merely scrolling to the top of the page if not already there. i emailed support, they recommend using a dif
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It loaded for me on Mint 14 and Firefox 24. I had to enable access to "akamaihd.com" and "stripe.com".