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Jasseh said:
New Humble Bundle (Re-bundle):

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https://www.humblebundle.com/

Edit: Noticed after posting, 14 days of bundles (assuming all re-posts of previous bundles, will find out tomorrow I guess).
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Noice :D
 
Hope they redo the bundle with Fear 3 in it. I was going to add it to my brothers account to do some coop but forgot all about it and not seen it on offer since.
 
ElliorR said:
That is a good bundle and its a pity I have a few of those games.
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Same, still picked it up however for the games that I dont have.

Also they've seemed to combine some of the games when redeeming them instead of individual keys for each..wish it was individual keys for each game.

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DrunkRufie said:
Also they've seemed to combine some of the games when redeeming them instead of individual keys for each..wish it was individual keys for each game.
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pooley said:
^ Yep bit miffed about it as i would have liked to have gifted some...
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That wouldn't be in the spirit of the charitable causes though would it? ;)

$5 is good value for even a couple or even one of the games in that set, so giving some of them away to people tight-fisted enough to not want to donate money to charity, or worse still trading/selling off the spare games to break even or profit from the bundle over all is pretty sad (I'm not specifically accusing you of wishing to do that, but it does happen and that's why they do it this way)

Edit: the biggest example that springs to mind was the amazing EA/Origin bundle from a little while back - within hours of the bundle going live there were tons of ebay auctions attempting to re-sell the codes from the bundle for ~£25 or something (which was still a good deal, but a 500% odd markup), some sellers with multiple bundles...
 
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uncle_rufus said:
That wouldn't be in the spirit of the charitable causes though would it? ;)

$5 is good value for even a couple or even one of the games in that set, so giving some of them away to people tight-fisted enough to not want to donate money to charity, or worse still trading/selling off the spare games to break even or profit from the bundle over all is pretty sad (I'm not specifically accusing you of wishing to do that, but it does happen and that's why they do it this way)

Edit: the biggest example that springs to mind was the amazing EA/Origin bundle from a little while back - within hours of the bundle going live there were tons of ebay auctions attempting to re-sell the codes from the bundle for ~£25 or something (which was still a good deal, but a 500% odd markup), some sellers with multiple bundles...
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I dont really have an issue with that as if the buyer on ebay knew about humble bundle they would not have paid £25 for it on ebay. So really humblebundle/charity gained by selling lots to (greedy) ebayers who also won by selling to chumps. Its only the chumps who lost out by not researching.
If the ebayers didnt buy lots to sell then the chumps would have done without/bought from other places in which case the charity would get nothing.
 
meandu229 said:
I dont really have an issue with that as if the buyer on ebay knew about humble bundle they would not have paid £25 for it on ebay. So really humblebundle/charity gained by selling lots to (greedy) ebayers who also won by selling to chumps. Its only the chumps who lost out by not researching.
If the ebayers didnt buy lots to sell then the chumps would have done without/bought from other places in which case the charity would get nothing.
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What you say is true, but surely the issue isn't that "those people wouldn't have bought the humble bundle anyway" but that the greedy ebayers are making a huge profit from something that is meant to be for charity...

It's like if someone was running in one of the charity marathon type events and took a load of sponsorship money from people and then only donated a bit of it to charity and kept the rest for themselves... Would you really take the attitude that "if they hadn't run the race in the first place then charity would get no money at all - at least this way they get a little bit, so it's totally fine"
 
uncle_rufus said:
What you say is true, but surely the issue isn't that "those people wouldn't have bought the humble bundle anyway" but that the greedy ebayers are making a huge profit from something that is meant to be for charity...

It's like if someone was running in one of the charity marathon type events and took a load of sponsorship money from people and then only donated a bit of it to charity and kept the rest for themselves... Would you really take the attitude that "if they hadn't run the race in the first place then charity would get no money at all - at least this way they get a little bit, so it's totally fine"
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far worse imo than any single ebay user selling keys were online retailers such as Kinguin who were buying blocks of HB keys and selling them on their site. Chances are we'd still be getting individual Steam keys from HB if not for this.

http://www.destructoid.com/fast2pla...tes-reselling-humble-bundle-keys-272683.phtml
 
uncle_rufus said:
What you say is true, but surely the issue isn't that "those people wouldn't have bought the humble bundle anyway" but that the greedy ebayers are making a huge profit from something that is meant to be for charity...

It's like if someone was running in one of the charity marathon type events and took a load of sponsorship money from people and then only donated a bit of it to charity and kept the rest for themselves... Would you really take the attitude that "if they hadn't run the race in the first place then charity would get no money at all - at least this way they get a little bit, so it's totally fine"
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But if I sponsored someone for charity then I would expect it all to go to charity as I wouldn't be paying for someone to go on a run and then donating to charity after that, I would be donating to charity in the guise of encouraging someone to get healthy (or similar), but people who have bought on ebay know nothing about the charity implications with what they have bought so I dont think its really comparable.

To keep on topic here is a decent deal
http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DDB-TCC/tom-clancys-collection-bundle
Tom Clancy's Collection £5.00
Tom Clancy's End War
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas
 
meandu229 said:
But if I sponsored someone for charity then I would expect it all to go to charity as I wouldn't be paying for someone to go on a run and then donating to charity after that, I would be donating to charity in the guise of encouraging someone to get healthy (or similar), but people who have bought on ebay know nothing about the charity implications with what they have bought so I dont think its really comparable.
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This is the last on it from me at the risk of de-railing the thread much further, but I think we will have to agree to disagree here... The comparison isn't 1:1 like you state above but those involved in setting up the Humble Bundles do so under the belief that their games are being sold at a great price to help raise some money for charity... not to make someone else a big profit by re-selling them... those involved in the HB are in some sense the people "donating" the big discounts on their games to you (under the guise of promoting the developers and Indie gaming) in the admittedly slightly tenuous comparison, and selling the games for a profit is going against what their expectations were of you when they gave you those good deals... The involvement of charity just cements it even further as a dishonest thing to do
 
DrunkRufie said:
Same, still picked it up however for the games that I dont have.

Also they've seemed to combine some of the games when redeeming them instead of individual keys for each..wish it was individual keys for each game.

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pooley said:
^ Yep bit miffed about it as i would have liked to have gifted some...
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Looks like they just used the same keys as they did for the original bundle:

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