Sunday, August 18, 2013

Good Job Humble Bundle!

Many people who know me and, more specifically, my gamer side will know that I love the work of the folks at Humble Bundle. They organize and put on sale bundles of videos games, and occasionally other digital media, using a pay-what-you-want model. At least that is one interpretation of their work. Another would be that they have a donate-what-you-want, and receive digital goods in return, as always you have the option to send some of your purchase price (or all of it) to certain charities.
Their latest offering is the Humble Origin Bundle, which features multiple EA published games. While a number of people (primarily Linux users it appears) are complaining that there are not Linux versions of these games (oddly I've not seen a Mac person complain once), they are being drowned out by the less-vocal people. At the moment some 1,417,578 less-vocal people who have purchased the bundle, making it the most sold bundle the company has ever had. At over $6.8 million it is also the most profitable, and not even a full five days have passed! This is awesome, especially as EA is not receiving any money from this; it is all going to charity, or to Humble Bundle as a tip (how much goes where is under your control). In the short term, the awesome part is how great the bundle's content is, but in the long term the awesome part is how many people are being introduced to Humble Bundle this way. I can't speculate if the next Humble Indie Bundle will break any records, but I am sure that more people will know about it than ever before, thanks to this.
Good job Humble Bundle! Thank you EA! Good luck everyone!

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