Humble Bundle is Joining Forces with IGN!

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Announcing our biggest bundle ever: Humble Bundle is proudly joining the IGN family! We will continue to bring you all of our humble products, but with more resources and help from IGN.

We chose IGN because they really understand our vision, share our passion for games, and believe in our mission to promote awesome digital content while helping charity. I can’t think of a better partner than IGN to help Humble Bundle continue our quest.

We will be working harder than ever to bring you the best gaming bundles, book bundles, and store sales, while nurturing the Humble Monthly and our new publishing initiative. We will keep our own office, culture, and amazing team with IGN helping us further our plans. We will raise even more money for charity.

John and I started Humble Bundle from our childhood homes. When our parents found out that our “big idea” was basically the honor system of pay-what-you-want plus charity, they braced themselves for the possibility that we might never move out. Seven years later, thanks to the generosity of over 10 million customers, we’ve now raised $106 million for charity. We are incredibly proud of this figure, of our team, and the Humble community which got us here.

But as far as we’ve come, we know we are just getting started. Even bigger things lie ahead, and we think IGN is the perfect partner to help us get there.

If you like Humble Bundle now, stay tuned, because we’ll have more exciting things to share in the near future.

-Jeffrey Rosen
Co-Founder, CEO
Humble Bundle
 
Not sure about this at all. Surely the whole point in humble bundle was its for charity and very little goes to profit. Now IGN are pulling the strings less will go to charity and profit will likely be the number one. Do not like.
 
Definite conflict of interest.
IGN review (hahaha) games that they get paid to review. If those games suddenly show up on humblebundle, it's not just about charity, it's them pushing for their advertisers.
 
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10/10 "It's okay"
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It'll be interesting to see what changes they try to implement. Depending upon how profitable Humble is surely there's a slim chance that they might be quite hands off, especially as Humble seems like quite a small team.
 
x-st said:
It'll be interesting to see what changes they try to implement. Depending upon how profitable Humble is surely there's a slim chance that they might be quite hands off, especially as Humble seems like quite a small team.
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The fact that the original owners weren't driven by profit and IGN and their owners are is an immediate conflict of what Humble Bundle is all about. Sure, IGN contacts and clout in the industry may mean better games from bigger publishers but they have a responsibility to their owners and shareholders to make a profit. That isn't and shouldn't be what Humble Bundle is about.
 
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Alien Isolation 5.9/10. Never read anything since.
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Whilst I gave up reading reviews quite a while ago as it's just one persons opinion and they usually have spoilers and can put you off a playing game that you otherwise might have enjoyed, I'm gobsmacked with that Alien Isolation score!
 
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This was always the end-game. That's why the Humble Monthly started: potential buyers (of the business) love to see a steady subscriber base.
 
If IGN leave Humble alone to continue doing what they're doing, then great.
But, it's IGN. So I don't have that much hope for that. Sadly.
 
Honestly, I know very little about IGN beyond seeing the occasional comedy review score.

Don't see why it's necessarily going to be a bad thing. It's not like IGN have form for absorbing and screwing up smaller companies, as far as I'm aware
 
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