[FREE IN-GAME ITEM] Warhammer Vermintide - The Outsider Hat

I understand the sentiment, but I highly doubt that the price will be cheaper and all the games are included. Take last few months, how would you get all that stuff for just 12?

I mean really, someone tell me if this exists, but I don't see it happening personally. Certain games do get bundled, and it has happened a few times recently that the ''main'' game they announce early goes on sale soon after the monthly is over, true. It happened with Vermintide, with a few others as well - but what about the rest of the games each month?

And now giving away a DLC which was in a HB monthly

This month’s lineup includes Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide (+DLC), The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Project Cars, Mother Russia Bleeds, Neon Chrome, Jotun: Valhalla Edition, HoPiKo (Debut!), and a new Humble Original, Kimmy!

The bundle included 8 games, not including DLCs (which were never elaborated on past 'DLC', as the announcement above indicates: See also: 1 2). Outsider was a preorder cosmetic, rather than a proper DLC (in fact, if it used in-game activation instead of Steam activation, as most such cosmetics do, we presumably wouldn't even be getting angst over it now), and was thrown in as a special bonus. It has never been purchasable on its own, and was a nice bonus for the bundle, but presumably not one anyone used as a basis for evaluating the bundle's value.

That the devs have decided to finally give others a crack at it is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Say what you want about the merits of Monthlies on the whole, but using a preorder cosmetic that wasn't ever intended to be a feature of the monthly as a supporting element for such arguments is rather... curious. :P

I'm a bit confused over who is ''they'', the Vermintide and Jotun publishers?

I agree that it is a serious undermining of the product, but in the case of Vermintide I assume they wanted playerbase gains. My point was that I do not see how, let's say, if I bought last month's bundle, I will be able to get all those games within the next few months for less than the price of the monthly. Has that ever happened, that the entire monthly bundle was available within 1 or 2 months at a lower price?