Mean/stingy people

Agreed

Apparently people's à la carte purchase standards are separate from bundle purchase standards.

While your complaints may be sometimes valid, just because you try to sell me a turd for $1 doesn't make it a good deal, or doesn't make it any less a piece of shit. That said, most whiners should just either buy or not buy and move along. Whining is pointless and noone is entitled to cheap games.

You clearly do not know what either "mean" or "stingy" mean however.

Are you only saying this because people in your thread think the bundle isn't any good?

I dont know why you're complaning either. Like the example Ceildric posted above, it doenst mean every discount makes instantly every game/product a good deal.
Buying something seeking only for discounts is only consumerism in my opinion.

You still have the right to disagree with my comment.. but calling people cheap/stingy or anything like that because they choose differently where they want to spend their money is just ridiculous.

People like commenting, and the easiest comments to make are criticisms. People who like the games feel less need to say something, they just go and buy.

Totally agree... people always wants "innovation and new stuff" but when these things come, they are like "oh this is so boring, i'm coming back to my black ops".
sadly lol

A lot of the bundles do suck, that's why. I just choose to move along rather than waste my money :D

oh this thread is so boring, i'm coming back to my black ops

Sadly bundles (especially what people consider the "good" bundles, i.e. one filled with popular titles) have made a portion of gamers feel entitled to get the best indie games out there for a nickel, especially those who primarily only care about AAA games and will only play the most popular indie games out there. I get frustrated when people complain when the games are truly indie (i.e. not the popular ones, not that those games aren't indie, but the average indie game is going to be a lesser known entity). It's like everyone wants the most recent/popular/expensive indie games to go on sale for $1 else it's not worth there time and money, yet they're totally fine with shelling out $100 (game + DLC) for any AAA game. /endrant

"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

Back in the old days, the above saying was a standard people tried to live by. Sure, it doesn't apply in every situation, but it does apply in most. Being polite and being kind are two things which allow people to live together without killing each other. It seems that these days, many children are not being taught these things, anti-social behavior is rampant, and people don't get along as well as they used to. Your example of non-customers (assuming for the moment that they aren't purchasing the product they're saying is a "bad deal") trashing a bundle is only one out of many. It's enough to vote with your wallet without adding pointless whining.

P.S. ("Stingy" may not be a correct word for the OP, but "mean" certainly is.)

not every game is perfect but hey give the developers of games the credit they deserve.They make the games, witch include a lot of programming hours, so we can play these games. I think there are some categories of whiners: 1) little kids.. ooh you cant shoot, race or kill stuff while mashing on 1 button all the time.. in short the "its too complicated so we complain about every little thing" category.
2) the jealous category of whiners.. "damn it looks so easy why didn't we got that idea" so they complain and moan all the time about"dull games" being rude and obnoxious.
3) the morally and game depressed blogger/people: this group moans, groans and critise everything and everybody.
so people you can: like a game, hate a game, make a game-review & post it on youtube but remember if it was "lame", "boring" or "easy" 99% of the world would make games so it isn't "as easy" as some might think:)

Rather than it being an issue of being "stingy" its a matter of supply, demand, relevance, and income. For example, a new AAA game comes out for $60. Some people have the means to buy it while others prefer to get more bang for their buck and wait for it to go on sale.

So, the game initially sells well and after 3 months the trend stops because something else comes out. After some time, it goes on sale and BAM! People are talking about the game again and buying it. After some more time, it goes on a 75% sale and people continue to buy it. Eventually, lets say the company files bankrucy and this game goes on into a bundle such as the THQ bundle. People buy this game and a few more that was once $60 for $1 because that's what they can afford. I know that if i had the means, I would pay 4x the average rather than rounding up to the nearest dollar, however that's not the case and I wait for the sales.

As for people being mean at a game, look at a game like Duke Nukem Forever that took many years to develop and came out unpolished and horrible. Seriously, the most fun I had in that game was throwing poop.

In conclusion, we all have different wants and needs. If I wanted to play a game early, I need to pay a premium, however If I dont care when I play it, I can wait for reviews and the price to drop. From the Developer's standpoint they make the game and need hype for it. The indie bundles do that, they allow large numbers of people to play their game and not pirate it. Thus relevance for a game is important.

People having opinions about the quality and value of games... SUCH BASTARDS!

War Z.
Now tell me I'm being stingy and mean.

mimimi capitalism. do what people buy and voila!

People voicing opinions on a forum?

Whatever next?