I'd say longer. But it was a sort of inevitable consequence of the increased commercialization of the site, even prior to the IGN acquisition.
Used to be it was a couple of guys reaching out to a handful of indie devs to package and market some indie titles that had missed out on the spotlight before. Then it got big and became a regular operation. Now it's an honest-to-goodness enterprise. Standards were going to have to drop at some point to maintain the increasing size of the project. Then there's also more games offered == trending towards mediocrity == lower average quality of bundles, simply by virtue of normal distribution.
Fuck monthly bundles tho. Pre-ordering without knowing what you're pre-ordering is just awful compounded on awful.
Also while Indiegala and Groupees are indeed trash, I'd argue that Fanatical doesn't deserved to be lumped with them. I've personally grabbed more Fanatical bundles than Humble recently.
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fanatical has the mistery keys bundles that are full of repeats and rebundled games. they got me twice but never again. Other than that if you can see what you are buying their bundles are normally good
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Fanatical is inching closer and closer towards that label, but so far, they're still one of the best bundle sites ;)
IG and Groupees, on the other hand...
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I just like musicians making actual music. Don't get me wrong...I've made EDM stuff, too, but mostly just for the writing process (or for background music in a video game). If I think that I actually have a good song, then I arrange it for instruments and have fellow musicians play it with me.
People that tell me that they're "going to a concert" and then tell me that they're seeing "DJ fill in whatever you want here" make me just LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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I've hardly seen any EDM on Groupees, but they tend to have a lot of chiptunes, celtic, epic, soundtrack, and synthwave music. They've recently had some jazz-hop, metal, and ambient bundles, too. I've also seen some alternative, pop, trance, rock, dubstep, chillwave, drum & bass, instrumental, comedy, reggae, blues, downtempo, yodeling, and even vaudeville music in their bundles. I'm curious to know what you consider "actual music" if none of those are. Are you referring to experiencing music performed live?
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I have quite a bit of music from Groupees from their game/music bundles, and most of it has been pretty awful for anything other than perhaps background noise in a game. I probably painted with the "EDM" brush too broadly and certainly wasn't going to go as deep into sub-genres as you did in your list. My main thing is that I generally dislike programmed music. If the final product wasn't created by musicians playing instruments, it just feels very artificial, cold, and soulless to me. Just my opinion. I don't mind electronic instruments, so long as there are actual people playing them.
As for many of the genres you listed, I haven't personally seen them on Groupees, but then again as that site gravitated more and more toward comic and music bundles, and had fewer game bundles, I began to check it less and less. As such, if they've been branching out into other kinds of music that I might enjoy, well I guess that I've just missed it. I'll certainly take another look every once in a while and see if there's something there that might appeal to me -- I definitely like supporting independent artists, so if someone shows up that impresses me, I'll be happy to nab a music bundle.
As for how much I value music performed live, I think that is often the true division between artists of quality and you-shoulda-left-it-in-the-garage-buddy. I'm not saying that there isn't a place for people who are purely songwriters, not at all. I just see a lot of "artists" who write songs, spend a lot of time talking about how great they are, and then you see them live...and it's immediately apparent that they are not capable of performing their own music live. Too much help from too many machines gives some people confidence in ability that they don't have...they should spend more time practicing to develop a level of skill that justifies having an audience. I know that in any band that I was a part of, I would record every practice and make the band listen to all or part of it afterward...recordings don't lie, and sometimes you realize afterward that what you thought sounded good while you were all jamming out really had a lot of issues that need to be fixed. That's cool...go back in the room and practice some more. Tighten things up. Get to the point where the song can practically be performed through pure muscle memory so that you can focus on the performance itself. Oh, and then sometimes you discover something unintentional on the recording that ends up being the lightning-in-a-bottle that you were searching for in the first place, and now you can remember how it happened and intentionally include it in the work. In any case, I know how much work goes into having a really tight show, and I don't like lazy artists who just want to program tracks, show up to a gig and play them on a laptop or tablet, and then perhaps sing or rap over them. Like I mentioned earlier, I've programmed a lot of tracks myself, but primarily as a writing tool, and to have something concrete to bring back to the band to accelerate their ability to learn the song.
So hey, to bring this back around, if you notice an interesting music selection on Groupees, feel free to give me a virtual prod and tell me about it. I'm completely willing to check it out and give the artist some support if I dig it.
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Wow, I was not expecting such a detailed response.
Most of the bundles I buy from Groupees these days are music bundles, and sometimes they get me interested in genres that I was never interested in before (like chiptunes). A lot of the music that Groupees offers is somewhat hidden in mixed media bundles, too. I bought a handful of game bundles a while back, that happened to have a few albums included, only to discover years later that the albums are actually pretty good (or at least interesting).
I understand your emphasis on songwriters being able to perform their own music, although I don't think there's anything wrong with a songwriter not also being a performer. It does seem silly when the musician is just playing their own music from a laptop, but I consider that more of the role of a DJ than that of a performer.
If I notice any music that you might be interested in in their bundles in the near future, I'll let you know.
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If you want to check out some of their music bundles, they have three running right now: a synth one, a celtic music one, and a jazz hop one.
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What's funny is that I find a lot of good stuff on IG. Don't get me wrong, there's a metric crap-ton of trash on there, too. But if you dig through the bundles, there are quite a few good indie games that I've played from those bundles that I would have otherwise completely overlooked. And it's certainly cheap, especially if you take advantage of Happy Hour.
Now, if you're looking for big-name titles...well, of course you're going to be disappointed. It's called Indiegala (focus on the Indie part of that) for a reason. But I like that they're around and are an outlet to draw more attention to some interesting games that might otherwise not have a player base. Of course, you have to wade through all of the trash to find those games, but they're most definitely there if you're willing to spend some time looking (and watching a whoooolllleeee lot of video previews on the Steam store). :)
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I saw nothing wrong with most of their bundles and I'm only a subscriber since 2018. A couple have been shitty but the rest, I've found at least one game to play. Not sure what people are expecting for 12 dollars.
Developers have wised up. If you put a game in a bundle, that's it. No one will want to pay a fair price for that game ever again. Grey market traders horde about 50 copies to sell on G2A and other questionable sites. If I was the developer of a really great game that was still making money, I wouldn't put it in a bundle. That's why you see games that need more players showing up. Grey market traders are to blame for you not getting your most sought after games, not Humble Bundle.
Besides, taste is subjective and so I might love a bundle that you hate and vice versa. I don't do online multiplayer anymore, so I usually get the bundles for the single player games.
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Very true. Additionally, a lot of the games in the early unlocks cost more than $12 even at their biggest discounts and you're always getting several more games, so the value is indisputable. It just comes down to whether you personally like the games or not. If you never gamble on the mystery games, you never lose. Most of the games have somewhere around 80% positive reviews on Steam.
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Their bundle system has been mainly crap since 2013 or so. They stopped giving 2nd week unlocks to $1 min tier buyers who bought in the first week, (became you had to bta to get them at all), and gradually phased out 2nd week bonuses altogether, incorporated a top tier to make the bta shoot up high in price, and gradually phased out the ability to up your pay 30 days after your purchase date, some bundles even, you had to buy what you wanted up front, having the money right then and there, or you got what you got. For a while they even had an insulting captcha if you had to pay under the bta price. Everything bending over backwards to the devs/publishers at the expense of the customers. I do still like buying their bundle offerings from time to time because they're one of the few bundle sites that can hit up my wishlist, but they're far from their golden age that lasted from 2011-2013.
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Calling Fanatical a trash site...? What are you smoking?
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Fanatical is factually one of the best key resellers there is. No other store that is officially backed by AAA developers has had as low prices for big games as Fanatical. Get your head outta your ass.
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I don't really think so, although there's a consistant lack of good bundles these months..
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"No bundle, repeats, trash, too expensive! Must be IGN!"
Good ol' times. Start a new Steam acc. Or be young again. Or invent a time machine.
Saturation, big library, high expectations, more profit by selling via store, devs/publisher experienced re-selling and trading after bundles.
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besides the past two Monthlies being shit
Your personal taste in games doesn't mean that you can draw objective conclusions from that about a company failing lol.
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from what we used to get to what we are getting now there's an obvious decline in quality. even the lack of game bundles speaks for itself i think. since IGN took over, things were not the same anymore.
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Since developers realized that overbundling their games hurts them, you mean.
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Yeah, if you go in bundle your game will be forever and ever on G2A @0.50€
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I've brought this up several times before, but I doubt IGN has anything to do with it. Rather, it's another change in the market landscape.
I've listened to indie devs talk about bundles, sales and such, and something that many of them have pointed out is that being in a bundle is no longer all that good. Back when Humble was new, being in a bundle resulted in increases sales after the bundle was over, even months after sales were higher, simply because more people were made aware of the game. That effect hardly even happens anymore, being in a bundle does not increase sales post bundle. The bundle market got over-saturated. This happened alongside steam opening the doors to almost everything, which ended up flooding the bundle market with loads of junk. People no longer took note of games being bundled.
That's the first reason why quality developers are less likely to put their games in bundles, particularly for relatively new games (remember when games ended up regularly getting bundled within the year?). The exposure bundles give are almost non-existent these days, where as in the olden days, it was significant.
The second reason is the grey market. Once you've bundled your game, keys are likely to float around the grey market for a long time afterwards, and people end up buying the game there for 1-2€ rather than on a non-grey market site where the same game would cost 3-5€ on sale. The grey market was not such a big thing when humble was new, but it's grown alongside the bundle industry.
Also, take a quick gander and the bundles of old. They were not great. While we're past peak bundles, it would seem, early bundles were not all that great compared to modern bundles. Remember how Indie Royale used to give 4-5 games/bundle and cost around 5€, and how excited people got over those?
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Good points here 👍
Things change.. (Although I personally still think HB monthly and Fanatical's bundles are great.)
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"shit with AC: Origins"
Do you just not realize how heavily you're applying your subjective considerations to valuation, or is it that you didn't find it important to consider? Or is it that I'm crazy out of the loop as to how big-title AAA are considered these days?
AC: Origins, regardless of how the series is treated as a joke and that the monthly offering was for Uplay, is far more high profile than many of the previous featured games. With the exception of the previously free [and in my personal opinion, really bad quality] "I’m not a Monster", the other games in that month's bundle were not only decent in quality and appeal, but mostly unbundled. There wasn't anything notable to criticize about that month's bundle, and it may even be able to be considered as being one of the better bundles.
CoD4 seems to fall under the same consideration, even if it may have a bit less value than the newer, less discounted AC:O. Given that we don't know what else will be in the bundle, it seems senseless to make determinations toward the bundle as a whole at this point. Finally, there's the fact that non-Steam games have become fairly normal for Monthly highlights (and aren't inherently a problem except to Steam diehards, especially so long as Humble offers the ability to freely pause a month as desired), so that can't be used as an argument, either [unless you, like, had already queued up multiple years of subscription before the first non-Steam offering; That'd strike me as being rather the self-inflicted trouble, however].
If you're talking the general decline of bundles, that has been true across every bundle site, for years now. With the removal of greenlight and Valve cracking down on out-of-Steam-storefront sales, and maybe perhaps even a large-scale change in publisher opinion towards bundles, there just hasn't been as much bundle emphasis for a very long time now. As of a couple of years ago, junkware bundle sites exploded and the amount of bundles on major bundle sites decreased. Humble isn't in any way special in that regard.
So, in summary, your considerations towards lack of quality are likely mostly or fully subjective, and your concerns over bundle quantity should be spread to bundles as a whole, rather than focused on Humble specificially.
As far as Humble specifically, the fact that they are branching out to non-Steam services, when the issue appears to primarily be based in Steam itself, actually indicates it is healthier than other bundle sites, which are still limited to Steam alone. I find it rather counter-intuitive to view diversification as a weakness in the first place, given that it is typically viewed as a strength.
In any case, you were right from the start, about the consideration you presented in your final paragraph: By my recollections, Humble has always has cut down on their offers during the start of the year, and during the period when various sites are doing their summer sales. Humble always does a summer sale of their own, and they try to coordinate their offerings towards that, while not overlapping it with any bundles. So if you're looking for a sign of weakness, then it'd be better to base that in the performance of their summer sale, than off a shortage of bundles during this time period.
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Hehe, I started writing a long write up similar to this, but then thought, screw it. But you are 100% right in your assessment of a lot things, so have my +1.
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Hehe, I started writing a long write up similar to this, but then thought, screw it, Sooth will do the work for me.
not really, but had to take this joke opportunity ;-)
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Haha, yeah, I had the whole thing planned in my head, with similar points to what he made, and started writing it, but then I wondered why I was wasting my time with someone who thought AC Origins was a bad unlock.
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You tell him good sooth,... saves me about an hour so thx for that.
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I came here to say this exact thing, but you did it for me, and probably better than I would have. Thank you for once again reading my mind and preempting me. ;)
And even this last Monthly, which had CoD 4 as the headliner that I had zero interest in, still had 2 games off my wishlist in it.
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It started to go noticeably downhill a bit for me when IGN bought HB. Whether the two are related or not, I cannot say.
That being said, it's the number of game bundles appearing that's caused me think that, not particularly the quality per say. I've definitely bought into a few of the software and eBook bundles over the last year or so.
Apart from the last two monthlies being kind of meh (subject to today's contents!) (not a fan of many of the games in them, totally subjective I know.) I'm still generally okay with the site as a whole and what they do. I just wish they'd throw a few more game bundles out.
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besides the past two Monthlies being shit with AC: Origins
Yeah, you lost me right there. Origins was an amazing game imho. I put 100+ hours into it and loved it. Add to that COD is one of the most popular game franchises ever, and I'm not really seeing how your argument holds water.
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BLOPS4 being MP only is a big stray from the cute little indies that HB started with.
I don't think typical people who spend 100's or even 1000s of hours playing MP games such as COD are looking at HB for bundles to buy the game they've already got. And vice versa, those people looking to HB for game bundles, don't generally want the MP stuff.
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Mayanaise i dont like MP games like Overwatch, CoD, etc
And personally i'm not fond of Origin, Uplay games. I'm a die hard steam fan.
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I'm a die hard steam fan.
That's totally okay. Since I'm collecting on Steam, I also buy everything which is on Steam there. But the platform doesn't change the quality of the games (and thus of the bundle).
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That is a very good point. Last month's had many great indies
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It seems to me that I find more satisfaction in the smaller games than the overhyped AAA games. I don't have anything against the AC games or Fallouts or whatever games people seem to get immersed in for weeks on end, I just prefer something a bit more pint-sized :)
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+1, if you mean the one with 911 operator. I like the indies in there, they're interesting and cool.
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You're speaking in generalities that I believe would be hard to verify either way. Also, the monthly has quite often had a AAA game as a reveal, and may still contain several "cute little indies."
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I'm not arguing against AAA games. I'm arguing against MP-only games.
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And I don't believe one month is suggestive of a trend, either, as the OP is suggesting.
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Monthlies are supposed to have a variety of games and not just 2 or 3 categories. There are people who enjoy mp games like me and my friends and we really appreciate when a bundle has a few mp games. That doesnt mean it has to have only mp games but a variety of games to appeal all the tastes of people.
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There are only two categories: MP-only, and the rest.
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Not really, not all single player games are being played by people that love single player games. Plus there is always coop.
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What part of MP-only do you not understand?
And are you really so naive to suggest that a person who hates single-player games will play them? Really, I don't know of any gamer who doesn't play single-player games from time to time, and so by implication, they don't hate SP games :-P
Co-op is a moot point - it's either MP-only - or MP as an option. It still fits into one or both of those broad categories I mentioned.
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I think it's not true to say that. I think it's a general problem with over-saturation of bundles, and publishers getting leery of the impact they have on their back catalogue. Indiegala has reduced the size and frequency of their bundles, fanatical is doing more smaller bundles and 'mystery key' crap. The humble monthly might not have games I like every time, but for the most part, it's still a fantastic value offering. You may think AC: Origins is crap, but it's a brilliant game for any fan of the genre, and to get it with other games for $12 was a good deal.
This month, yes I'll agree, it's not fantastic, but I guess humble want's 'big' publisher games, and COD is one of the biggest franchises out there, so they took what scummy Activision was offering, and I guess most people hated it to the point that even activision had to back down and offer more. In fact all the worst monthlies to my mind, have been ones fronted by an Activision/ blizzard game. Everyone hates EA, but I always say that Activision is the least 'gamer friendly' of the bunch.
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I think people are just jaded. Like buying nothing is somehow a bad thing, you need to buy all the bundles.
Rebundling and the changes in the bundle environment over the last 8 years has changed, I wouldn't single out one site.
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They possibly move on non steam bundles :D epic keys maybe?
i dont like them too but u cant say its shit, users will rock u here coz u allowed urself to say smth about game they like
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I think they're just changing focus. Believe it or not their monthly bundles have maintained a steady quality throughout, they've quite recently become a successful publisher and seem to be growing that business steadily (which I think they're doing in part because it'll also help with their Monthly bundles--that and they also have the experience and connections from their "Humble Originals" as well..), and furthermore they have their main store--which seems to be doing alright too. And all of this is with a very large parent company's backing.
I don't think you can look at their lack of game bundles recently and immediately correlate that with them "dying". I think it's more likely that said bundle business just isn't as lucrative or successful anymore and Humble is investing their time/money on other, more successful and safe things. If you think about it, bundles as they were before really aren't a very stable and reliable source of profit, it's constantly dependent on what games they can bring in and what deals they can make with publishers from month to month, week to week, all banking on how much it ends up appealing to customers (unlike the monthly model that's already got their customers' subscription at a fixed price, involves much less games, and isn't so much a big deal with one publisher). It's no wonder Humble would want to change and diversify their business model.
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and yes i'm being a bit unfair, some of the indies were actually ok like wandersong, just not what i was expecting, that's why i paused this month. and if they start with the multiplayer games. Origin or Uplay stuff next month it's another pause for me or maybe cancel subscription.
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So I guess this is not about quality but it's about client\drm
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that too.
i also see a decline in the quality of their offers and as i said there's fewer game bundles. but let's wait for the end of the summer sales to draw a conclusion,
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For me, it's not about the Client or DRM, I just don't want any more games that have no single player.
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Lack of game bundles in June (when Steam has its summer sale) is pretty common for HB. I wouldnt expect to see another game bundle from HB until the second week of July unless they release another $30 charity bundle during the summer sale.
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that may be it, but then again Fanatical and Groupees are doing consistent bundles despite the Summer Sales so it's a bit weird.
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Well there is also E3 next week and HB AFAIK always releases a bundle for it, granted its mainly DLCs but still.
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Ahh i was not aware aware of that, good to know thanks. (Or maybe thats why i seem to remember there not being any game bundles in June if its primarily an MMO / DLC bundle.)
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Lack of bundles?
There's are the bundles I found from April and May.. there might be more.
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/9LC0L/humble-bundle-2k-build-your-own-bundle-humble-store
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/HXAF6/humble-bundle-humble-software-bundle-streaming-2019
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/qovQ9/humble-bundle-june-2019-monthly-bundle-cod-bo4-battle-ed-upgraded-to-standard-battlenet
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/v9VHx/humble-bundle-humble-tinybuild-bundle-with-graveyard-keeper
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/WMXgu/humble-bundle-humble-square-enix-collective-bundle-the-region-locks-have-been-lifted
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/weZsM/humble-bundle-humble-more-board-games-bundle-by-asmodee-digital
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/3lbko/humble-bundle-humble-lego-games-bundle
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/wxXdN/humble-bundle-humble-bandai-namco-bundle-3
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/VrFlV/humble-store-whale-rock-bundle
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/DUXSi/humble-bundle-may-2019-monthly-bundle-incl-assassins-creed-origins-uplay-no-steam
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/x5mzh/humble-bundle-humble-humongous-entertainment-bundle
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there hasn't been a true game bundle for the past 2 weeks or so, there was the tinybuild one which i thought was great and that's it
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/qovQ9/humble-bundle-june-2019-monthly-bundle-cod-bo4-battle-ed-upgraded-to-standard-battlenet -- > not into COD or dead multiplayer games so that's an easy skip for me
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/HXAF6/humble-bundle-humble-software-bundle-streaming-2019 --> not a game bundle, has Aeero and Getting Over it which were bundled many times before and the rest is technical software
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/9LC0L/humble-bundle-2k-build-your-own-bundle-humble-store --> too expensive for my taste, this is similar to the Fanatical Pick and Mix or the Mistery Bundle which i hate.
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HB isn't dying a slow death and there isn't a lack of bundles. What there is..a lack of bundles that you care for. There's a big difference.
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Aeero and Getting Over it which were bundled many times before
According to the thread Aaero was bundled 1 time and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy was bundled 2 times...
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C'mon those bundles don't count because of our impossibly high bundle expectations raised by the rare bundles with 98% discounts, our large game libraries, and our shared vitriol for corporate ownership of previously "indie" companies like Humble...also OP literally wrote in another comment that they are being "unfair"
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Pretty much anything that costs more than nothing pisses people off around here.
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Humble:
99% off bundle
SG (probably):
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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Why aren't they the first 5 games on my Steam wishlist??!!
I'M ANGRY ON HUMBLE!
I'm much easier that way. Even if the games don't appeal to me, I can always find someone who might enjoy them.
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Bundle quality is fine. Not what it used to be, but pretty good for the price. I am not really sure how other bundle sites aren't dead already with their shit offerings, only Fanatical is somewhat keeping with HB in game quality.
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Fanatical is rotating a lot of their bundles lately with many repeats and already bundled games. Also i hate their Mistery Keys bundles, if i'm going to buy games i wanna know what i'm buying, but sometimes they have some good bundles
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Fuck Mystery bundles, I am with you there, never bought a single one nor I intend to in the future. It is true that they are repeating games, but at least they are not hot garbage like other site, and you can always trade duplicates for something. I am wondering why they don't try to bundle some older indie games that were never in a bundle, or were years ago and don't appear anymore. Some suggestions:
1001 Spikes, Antichamber, Assault Android Cactus, Audiosurf, Battleblock Theater, Blackwell games, Braid, Castle Crashers, Cave Story, Closure, Defense Grid, Don't Starve, Downwell, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Electronic Super Joy, FEZ, Legend of Grimrock, Luftrausers, Machinarium, Mark of the Ninja, Monaco, Nihilumbra, Orcs Must Die, Papers, Please, REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR, Risk of Rain, Snakebird, SpaceChem, Spelunky, The Swapper, Terraria, Titan Souls, Toki Tori...
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You're overreacting. Humble monthlies are consistently good - I'd say january 2019 was the best ever and in the following months I got at least one really good game that I'd like to play (february: Yakuza 0, march: Vermintide 2, Paradigm, Cultist Simulator, Late Shift, april: Mutant Year Zero, Northgard). Only last month was a bit meh to me, but I'm fairly certain that many people loved to see AC:Origins in Humble Monthly.
All in all, if you feel you're not getting enough for your money just unsubscribe ;) I won't.
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Not the problem with HumbleBundle selling Bundles.
It's not that the "I want to play" game has been reduced from before the buyer.
We "want to play" but have no time to play.
The problem is that the human race and society have lost their spare capacity.┐(´Θ`)┌
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Looks delicious😋
The material is probably space cucumber.
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Hmm. That is a fair bit simpler a recipe than the usual cucumber cake I'm used to. For Example.
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Cucumber is a woefully underused, and exceedingly delectable ingredient.
Generally speaking, it goes best with anything "light" or "refreshing" [mint and citrus and salad as popular examples], savory [adding a fresh taste to savory dishes provides great contrast], or creamy [most notably, creamy deserts, cream sauces, and yougurt-based preperations like Tzatziki sauce]. And, of course, it's damn good on anything resembling a sandwich or wrap. ^.^
Cucumber cheesecake, for example, can be super tasty. Unfortunately, people tend to put it into savory cheesecakes (yes, those are a thing), so sweet examples are few. Here is an example of a sweet cucumber cheesecake recipe, however. ^.^
It's been a long while, but I recall my own recipe being a cucumber-lime-elderflower-vanilla based one. I don't have the recipe on hand anymore, but google any elderflower+lime cheesecake recipe, dash in some extra vanilla bean zest and cucumber juice, and I imagine it'd be similar enough to what I had. (Y'know, assuming I'm recalling it correctly after all this time. :P)
And that's just the highlights of what you can do with the typical types of cucumbers found in Europe or the Americas. There are so many varieties out there! In fact, if you get a hold of some "yellow cucumbers", and you're still itchin' for cucumber cake, consider whipping up some tavsali. (Well, I imagine you could make that with green cucumbers as well, though from what I understand it just wouldn't be the traditonal option.)
Most of all, though, cucumber-based beverages can be incredibly refreshing. That may perhaps be their best utilization of all. :)
Huh. Somehow I'm in a Broccoli Appreciation steam group, and I even went so far as to make a "Kisses 4 Alpacas" group, and yet I'm not in any kind of cucumber enthusiasts group. I feel as though a grave oversight has occurred. :(
Well, I blame the lack of appealing public groups. I mean.. just look at these. >.>;
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Is HB dying a slow death?
No. I'd say that HB is doing fine so far ;)
Also, can we stop saying that everything is "dying" when it's clearly not? This is really becoming my pet peeve :D
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Seriously! Non-game example, but my former profession (classical music) has been declared to be "dying" for over a hundred years now. (Spoiler: It's not.)
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Haha, nice :D And let's not forget the (in)famous "singleplayer games are dying". The only one that's dying is me, everytime I heard that :D
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Think their non monthlies are worse, not to mention them even skipping weeks with games and have software or books instead.
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i wouldnt say its dying but it dropped in quality. less game bundles with less games in it and no unlocks for next week. basically they removed half of games from the weekly bundles and charge the same. Also the quality lacks. The early unlocks from monthlies are most of the time popular games and the rest is filler with noname games noone heard before with the ocassional good game. i miss the old jumbo bundles with many great games. the last 2 jumbo bundles had not the amount of games like the old ones.
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The early unlocks from monthlies are most of the time popular games and the rest is filler with noname games noone heard before with the ocassional good game
That's entirely a matter of taste. Also, it's like you're implying that just because you/people in general have never heard of a game, it's gonna be indie crap. Would you include Paradigm in that category? Personally, I was delighted when I saw that "filler" was part of the [insert appropriate month] Monthly. Weird point & click game in which a sloth vomits candy? Sign me in. I generally like unusual stuff.
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No.
But you make it sounds like they are so few and apart, it happens once in a blue moon (and that's being generous).
That's what I understood from your post.
But I get it, you're angry on Humble Bundle.
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Don't blame Humble or bundle sites. Games themselves are the issue here.
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The monthly games have been trash for a while now.
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i almost never buy past $1 tier . tier 2 is always so expensive, i just cant risk it
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we are all dying a slow, meticulous death :) Completely inevitable. Get as much gaming in now as possible!
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besides the past two Monthlies being shit with AC: Origins and now a dead game COD4, have you guys noticed the lack of game bundles? we have lots of book bundles, a software bundle and no games... wtf is going on?
i thought it was because of the Summer Sale but i don't believe in coincidences and the lack of quality is not a new issue
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