BlinkBundle : Trading Cards Bundle #2

I actually prefer it with fewer bonus games and would love it if you guys managed to phase them out completely. I know from a marketing standpoint why they happen, but there have been one or two bundles where I decided to wait for the bonus and then forgot to pick them up in the second week. Unless there's something so exciting that it sells me on the bundle by itself, I prefer to know what I'm getting before I actually buy in.

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salionski

In a perfect world they would already be gone. But we've got some ideas on how to reduce and then hopefully eliminate their use.

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aElder

The only purpose I see is to try that people speculate and talk about the mystery game, so the bundle gets mentioned/topic. But I'm not sure how much success that has.

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salionski

It's not even really about that. The main purpose is promotion...or specifically re-promotion. Certain sites (like Reddit) we can only promote when something is changed with the bundle. It also gets mentioned on Facebook, Twitter and other sites.

We don't release tons of bundles on a regular basis, so we can't promote the other bundles through those. We don't have a store, so we can't promote through sale posts. Though to be fair some bundles that have these still do unlocks.

If you're just releasing bundles on a regular basis, but not multiple at once and you don't have a storefront then it becomes a necessary evil. You will get less results if you just toss the full bundle out there without the chance for that re-promotion. But like I said we've got some plans in the works.

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aElder

Thanks for the insight, I got it, and I'm not used to how reddit works, so I've learnt something :-)
Have a free bump.

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TheChack

Only interested in Retro/Grade but I guess it's not bad :p

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Shad0WeN

Not bad. The first decent bundle since their launch one in my opinion (the subsequent ones have been uninteresting to me), but that said I basically already have everything I would want from this.

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madjoki

Everything from tier 1 owned = no thanks, thought i'd interested in some.

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unkblog

I don't know the games (not even one), but if they are decent games, may be a good bundle (selling the cards you can make the bundle cheaper)

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meneldur

selling all cards you make the bundle worth 1 cent

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ShayMing

$5 seems borderline okay (if the damn VAT thing being put on top for EU wasn't also there), while tier1 imho should be a $1... so does Blink have price influencing events like happy hours or something similar?

To be honest I can see all games of this bundle being part of two or three $1 tier bundles sooner or later (thus I'd value it at rather around 2.50$)

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salionski

We don't do excessive price gimmicks like Happy Hours or Dollar Days. We try to keep the price per game reasonable to participating developers with all of our bundles.

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RyGuS

do you work for blink?

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aElder

I've paid $1 for some of those games on other sites. I mean 1 for 1.

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RyGuS

5 dollers for 13 steam games is borderline?

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ShayMing

6.24 dollars for me as VAT is added for Europeans.

Borderline also means to me I think it's fair, but I'm still a cheapskate... or well, realistically I'm not gonna be playing enough of the content to actually make it worth for me personally. Also: I already own the best game of the bundle (SotMC).

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Mayros

go home dinossaurs and chip looks interesting , want o try them

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KroganAlly

I can say Go Home is pretty good, if a bit childish.

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Shad0WeN

I found it to be an enjoyable Tower Defense game with some minor puzzle elements thrown in as a twist.

My only complaint would be that it could have used some more levels. I breezed right through the first world and I think that is like 1/3 of the game?? Not 100% sure though because I didn't actually finish it.

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KroganAlly

I think that's about where I got. It was getting repetitive, but it was so dammed charming!

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Shad0WeN

I haven't played in awhile but I'm pretty sure I left off somewhere in World 3. I've been meaning to pick it back up again and finally finish it.

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