Yes. I always keep a few tabs going early on. Musical tabs.
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Yeah. Just make sure you don't have any addons that will suspend the tabs.
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I didn't even know that was possible. Thanks for the info :)
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Yes. I usually don't open other tabs in that window though. (Often, tabbing back might refresh the page. Minimizing and restoring the window also has a chance of doing that.)
If I'm around when a bundle premiers, I'll open one regular tab in its own window, and one in incognito mode and refresh back and forth for about a half hour -- after about forty minutes or so, you'll usually have seen the best price that it'll get.
Or, if I'm undecided about a bundle until the BTA additions come the next week, I'll leave a window open for the entire week. (Often this results in me just completely missing the bundle though, due to either accidentally closing the window, or forgetting it.)
I do not know if buying at the $1 tier in the low-priced window will lock it at that price instead of the current average, but I suspect that it wouldn't. (I've never tried.)
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"Or, if I'm undecided about a bundle until the BTA additions come the next week, I'll leave a window open for the entire week."
Well, that's some dedication right here.
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It does lock it at whatever BTA is in that window.
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Wow, I don't think I could wait a week and hope the browser doesn't get closed. First, I don't like to leave my computer on when I sleep and second, I play a lot of different games, so there would be a chance of a crash.
I just started playing Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and found out the hard way that running Afterburners on screen display will cause the game and sometimes the computer to randomly crash. They designed the save system in such a dumb way where you cannot save while in a mission. When you start the game, there is a long introduction with an unskippable tutorial and a long mission. With the random crashes, the game always crashed before I could complete the mission and it was impossible to get through this part and save the game. I spent a few hours restarting the game and playing the same mission over and over until I finally figured out what was causing the crashing.
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Unless they changed it, 0,01$ is enough to lock the price.
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Are you saying that you can lock the BTA price by paying $0.01?
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As far as I know, yes. Haven't had the need to do so recently, though.
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I just tried searching and I have seen other people saying that it does work as of 3 months ago, so it probably still works. I never knew that, I thought you had to pay the $1.
I also just found out that you can only increase your price to get the BTA for 1 week from the purchase date. That means if they release a bundle where they are adding games to the BTA in a week, you have to be careful about timing if you want to lock the BTA price and see what the new games are before deciding to buy it.
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Oh, maybe that is what they mean. I was reading from Humble's website and it says this:
If you wish to beat the average on a purchase you already made, and your order is less than a week old, navigate back to your download page and click the "Like what we're doing?" link at the top to increase your amount. (NOTE: This option is still available for only a short period after the bundle ends; the option is not available on gift purchases.)
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In 99% of times that is true, but there were few bundles that disallowed that.
And by small, I mean like one or two out of those hundreds Humble already made.
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(Often, tabbing back might refresh the page. Minimizing and restoring the window also has a chance of doing that.)
That's actually not normal, that indicates you've a memory saver feature enabled somewhere.
This is the likeliest bet, assuming you're using Chrome:
Chrome 46 included a new "tab discarding" feature. This new feature figures out which tabs you are looking at and which tabs you aren’t really using any more. Noticing an inactive tab, Chrome will “kill” this tab without removing the visual tab from your tab bar itself. If you click on it again, you can reload the tab. This feature uses the same approach as "The Great Suspender" extension.
The first thing to check would be if the tab discarding feature is active in Chrome. You can disable it with the same method that page lists for enabling it.
If you're still having issues [or aren't using Chrome to begin with], try another browser: that should help you determine if it's another browser setting or extension responsible. If all browsers are giving you issues, it may be a memory saving element on your computer itself that's responsible.
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Yeah, that sounds like the behavior my tabs will exhibit after a few days, and yes, I'm using Chrome. Since I open shitloads of tabs and leave then open often, and am on an older computer, I'm okay with leaving the feature enabled, but it's nice to know it's toggleable. :)
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I couldn't resist, I already gave in and bought it. Thanks for the quick responses.
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i give you a tip. if you use firefox and click on new tab and have humblebundle saved as a shortcut hold control and click the shit out of it :D
This way you open many tabs where the price drops rapidly and then you can choose the lowest one. this way you cant miss the lowest bta.
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I would imagine that would only work right when the bundle starts and then as more people buy it the price will change much slower. I don't keep track of when bundles start and I am usually not there right away, but maybe I will look into it. Thanks.
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It never worked for me, does it have to be different tabs or different browsers? o:
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It worked for me. I used a different browser. I haven't tried using multiple tabs. I was opening plenty of other tabs in the same browser, but I didn't open any other from the Humble site.
Edit: I'm not sure if there are any browsers setup to automatically refresh the page after a certain period of time, but the old versions of Chrome and Firefox that I am using do not.
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Cool thanks for the info, mebbe that's what I did wrong ( =･ｪ･=)
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hmm i didn't think that would have worked could have saved 30 cents the other day :(
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Pretty helpful information here, but honestly I'd rather pay a few cents more when I wanna buy than pay a few dollars more when my electricity bill comes from keeping my PC with an open tab on for a few days or a week, lol. :P
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I know I can buy the $1 tier and lock the current BTA price, but I was wondering if I don't refresh my browser, will it charge me the BTA price that is shown even if it went up since I saw it?
For example: I have the current Humble Unreal Bundle showing a BTA price of $3.70 in my browser. I refreshed the bundle in another browser and it is up to $3.75. If I buy the bundle in the cheaper browser will I get it for $3.70?
Obviously I don't care about saving a few cents, but this could allow you to watch the bundle in one browser and only refresh the other if the price drops allowing you to get the lowest price.
I am asking because I am only interested in the BTA, but I haven't decided if I want to buy it yet, so I don't want to buy the $1 tier to lock the price.
Edit: From the multiple responses, it sounds like this should work.
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