Will this monthly bundle be yours?
The early unlock is worth the price of Monthly Bundle alone. But given that it's usually between $120 and $150, I imagine the other titles may not be great at all. But I don't care all that much.
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Have some faith in HB , they always surprise us :3
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Wasn't really trying to be pessimistic, was just curious about the outcome.
But yeah, I'll await the full list next week Friday.
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I've auto-subscribed for monthly bundles.
If I don't like the game, I can always drop it here.
$100+ worth is a no-brainer for only $12. :D
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Totally agree with you but it's well spent for someone interested in spending 12$ / month for games
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Only way I can build my library for AAA games. So yeah.
To put it into perspective, the recent dollar exchange in my country now means that the $60 price tag on a game is R1000 in my local currency. It may not seem like much, but that amount is 1/5 of my monthly payment for a 3-bed, 2-bath flat. Just crazy.
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This month... :D RUNNING WITH RIFLES, Dustbowl, Armello, HELLDIVERS, Ruzar - The Life Stone, Valhalla Hills.
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Running with rifles is AWESOME! I'll be really glad to give to a friend of mine if it comes...
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Yes, if you unsub before the 27th of January they won't charge you.
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I think when I unsubbed and tried to sub again to see, I wasn't able to buy that bundle. I had to forfeit/skip the bundle and could only sub for next month.
BUT, I'm not sure. Someone else hopefully will confirm or deny. Sorry, can't remember exactly.
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I didn't have the same problems , I changed to 3 months plan but then I realised that I would be charged all them three once , so I unsubscribed , then subscribed again and there were no problem
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You could just pause, and won't get charged. Go to settings --> Cancel and you'll this image below. Whenever you want, just unpause it.
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OK, so I'm watching Call of Cthulhu on Twitch, and he's saying that a "sneak peek" at Hollow Knight is included in the February bundle. No idea what he means by "Sneak Peek", unless it means a demo version or something ....
Anyway, he's playing it now on Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/callofcthulhu
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That would be my guess. He's sponsored by Humble Bundle, and said he got the "sneak peek" early.
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Well, the revealed game is expensive and popular enough to maybe let them get a free pass on it, although this would be the second time they put a demo in a monthly and consider it a "full" game.
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Yeah, pretty much everything after the unlock is a "bonus" for this bundle, like the Mad Max bundle.
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Well, the "demo" has done its job. Just watching the stream has made me really want to play Hollow Knight.
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...this would be the second time they put a demo in a monthly and consider it a "full" game.
Are you sure? I notice that people sometimes inflate the number of games in the bundle based on misperception, when Humble rarely if ever guarantees a set number of games.
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Yes, it had some stir on these forums as well:
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/yPVwS/humble-monthly-september-subscriber-you-should-know-this
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A sneak peek. Meh! I want the whole thing!! :P It looks quite nice!
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I wonder how much of a hit this one will take considering XCOM2 alone is $60.
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If it included the DLC, I would very likely get it, but considering that the DLC would be over $20 on it's own.... well, it makes it a much more difficult decision.
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I think I should get back together with my ex, I was more bearable back then.
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This is nice and Humble Monthly really good system but I don't think I can play that many games in a month and I already have too much backlog, so... I'm sad :).
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Probably the xtra games will be less good, but I hope for at least 1 xtra good game and it's a steal.
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Hollow Knight Demo confirmed as part of upcoming HB Montlhy:
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If they give key when it's released, I have no problem and would be pleased to play it, since it looks quite nice.
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It could also just be an additional add-on. If they have the typical eight games and a demo, I don't mind; in fact, that's cool and I appreciate the extra. But if it's in place of a game, I'm going to be a bit disappointed, even with such a strong headliner.
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last time they added a demo (September Bundle) they counted it as one of 8 games, so it was 7 games and a demo.
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Right, but if they learned from their mistakes...
Who are we kidding. It's gonna be a salt storm.
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I mean, xcom 2 is a pretty big game to put up front.. I'd be ok with 7 games since xcom 2 is one of em
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it's not about whether you're ok or not (I love XCOM2 as well on that matter), it's about company delivering on their promises and not providing false marketing. They market a bundle as 8 games, not 7 games and a demo, no matter how good these 7 games are they should market it as 7 games and a demo in this case.
Let's say you preorder a AAA game (yeah, yeah, I know, never preorder, but it's a hypothethical example). You decide to preorder 80$ Deluxe Edition containing base game and Season Pass. Game comes out, you play it and you absolutelly love it, it's one of the best games you've ever played, but soon the publisher announces that he cancels season pass but will not refund ppl who bought deluxe edition because they game is so awesome. Are you ok with not getting season pass you paid for simply because the base game is great? Does the fact that the base game is absolutelly awesome change the fact that still you got scammed out of these 20$ extra you paid for Deluxe Edition? ;p
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bit of a bad comparison. A better (but still not entirely apt) one would be fallout 4's season pass. Fallout 4 was awesome. The big DLCs were also pretty awesome. There were also only 2 of them. Based off of past fallout games we could've expected TONS of awesome content. In the end we got 2 pretty good DLCs and a whole bunch of naff filler ones.
IDK like, even if it turns out the other 6 games are just 6 copies of Bad Rats, I'm still pleased as hell with xcom 2 for $12.
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no, it's absolutely not a good comparison - because FO4 Season Pass DID NOT tell you you will get X number of DLCs, there was no lies, if Season Pass would say you'd get 4 DLCs and you'd get only 3 then it would be a good comparison, because Humble said we'd get EXACTLY 8 games, not 7 games and a demo.
And no - it would have to be 7 copies of Bad Rats, not 6, because they marketed 8 games.
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I preorder AAA games. Why should you never preorder?
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because it's bad from ours, customers, point of view. the more people preorder, the more bullshit publishers put up yet ppl still buy it, the more likelly publishers are to put up even more bullshit later on to give them more money, because you've already proven to them you're ok with their qanti-customer practices. First of all you're paying for something you haven't seen or noone has seen yet on that matter, game may turn out to be bad, significantly delayed, bugged, broken. You could as well just wait till release, see actual reviews and reports and buy it just after release risk-free instead of preordering. Second - it encourages bad anti-customer practicves like pre-order content only, things like DLCs available only for preorderers - why is it bad you mas ask, you're preordering anyway, so screw these people who does not, right? Well not really, because like I said, you show publishers it's fine and then they take another step - look at what was the first idea Square had with Mankind Divided preorders - you could even preorder but still you wouldn't get everything, you'd have to choose what you get,m what not, or pay even more and more to unlock stuff you'd otherwise be missing on. Further on - it's simply bad money investment. You're basically giving publishers/retailers a free loan.
TL;DR all that preorder culture does is encouraging publishers to screw customers even more and more. Few years ago publishers would not even try pull things up like they do nowadays, what gave them courage to do so? Customers who are eager to bend over and klet them fuck themselves over and over again, no matter how many preorder fiascos we'll see over the years.
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"Few years ago publishers would not even try pull things up like they do nowadays"
Those few years ago were really over a decade ago. Things have changed for a worse... we used to get free game demos and games that had patches post release with additional bug fixes and content additions... those days have been over for a LONG time.
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"Things have changed for the worse" - and they keep changing this way. Examples? Augment your preorder idea, COD Remastered as exclusive for new purchase only, 100$ preorders. And why do they keep changing for the worse? Because like I said, customers over and over prove that it's ok to screw them over and that they don't mind. And keeping preordering, no matter how many broken unplayable messes of the games gets released on day one, how many promises get broken, how many anti-customer practice publishers do only shows these publishers that whatever they do it will be fine, so they can come up with even more anti-customer ideas to rise their profits.
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You are trying to stop an avalanche in progress with an umbrella.... it just wont happen period so there is no point to try and fight it.
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and you are happily blowing up bunch of fireworks in celebration of said avalanche making avalanche even bigger. And for no reason on top of that, cause as I mentioned - it wouldn't make a difference if you'd buy these games at release day, heck it would even be better for you as it would let you avoid broken games.
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The difference is that I won't get the exclusive pre-order content.... so it does in fact make a difference.
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I seem to be in the minority in this, but I don't care about the exact number of games, if one's a demo, etc...I care about the total value of the bundle (where demos = zero, of course). Consequently, I'd expect that since they're including a $60 game, the total number of games might be less than other months (or include 1-2 demos).
For that matter, I'd rather a demo be one of the 8 games than, say, more of the games being cheap. For example, if we use a figure like $125 for the total MSRP of the bundle, I'd rather have games be worth $60, $20, $15, $10, $10, $5, $5, $0 (demo) than, say, $60, $20, $15, $10, $5, $5, $5, $5.
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you get me wrong. I do not care about quantity of games oer their quality either. What I care about is FALSE ADVERTISING, only that. I'd have nothing against a bundle consisting of 5-6 better and more pricy games instead of 8 lower quality and cheaper games, but ONLY IF it was advertised correctly. If they advertised "This monthly you get XCOM 2, 6 other games and a demo" I'd have no problem with that, if they advertised "This month you will get only 6 games total, but one of them is 60$ XCOM 2" I'd have no problem with that. But the moment they advertise "You will get 8 games" while in reality we get 7 I have problem with that. Because not only they give false advertisement (AGAIN!) and get away with it, but they also gets loads of people defending them, saying "yeah, they lied, but it's fine because the main game is great". It teaches Humble as a business they canlie to, screw over customers and nothing wil happen, they will be excused, they will be defended, and it's a bad thing from customers' perspective, because then they will be more likelly to lie to us again and again in the future, this time you may seem it ok because you got XCOM2, next time they may lie to you again and you get nothing you like, but hey, you should not be angry/sad then, after all in the past you were fine with them lying to you, why would you have nothing against it now? ;p
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A demo is technically a game given you're able to play it, so it isn't technically incorrect.
False advertising would be "8 full releases of video games", probably.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/game
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you gave dictionary definition of a game, first of all definition of a game, not a video game (so I understand you'd be ok if humble instead of video games and demos gave you a 1-page-long PDF explaining rules of Roick Paper Scissors, after all you got a promised game), 2nd, in this example we're not talking about game as an activity but game as a product. Demo is not a product, but rather presentation, freebie example of a product. Sometimes when you go to grocery store or market they have these free samples - you could taste 1 bite of some meal - would you call it a full meal and if in restaurant you ordered a 3-course dinner you'd be fine if one of meals turned out to be such 1-bite example? After all it fits definition of a meal, cvause it's a food you eat, but it does not fits classification of a product called "meal".
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+1 - Good Explanation - never understood some peoples difficulty in appreciating that a demo is not a full game - I don't go to steam and pay for a game, but only get a demo; indeed most developers would put those on steam for free, in order to entice customers :) - as for the rest of peoples issues, it is all personal opinion - although nowadays they get round this by making episodic games!
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A curated bundle of games sent to your inbox every month.
Get over $100 in games for just $12.
I mean, it sucks to get demos, of course, but if you're going to bring "FALSE ADVERTISING" into the discussion, we might as well read the advertisement. You can argue it is subjectively wrong, but the advertisement is phrased in such a way that you're not promised FULL RELEASES of video games, hell, even though you could imply it, it isn't even stated that you're going to get video games. Do note that a PDF with instructions of how to play a game, is technically not a game (yet, if delivered printed, it could be argued to be a game, as it could fit the definition), so I understand you may lack reading comprehension given I linked the very definition of a game, yet you failed to acknowledge it.
Additionally, you could argue an early access is not a full game, but people also spend hours enjoying those as video games, because they do fit the dictionary definition of video game (which, you could look up in your dictionary of preference, of course).
I do not approve the whole "let's put a demo in the monthly bundle" thing, but I don't perceive it as "FALSE ADVERTISING", because the advertisement shown is technically correct and a demo fits the shown text.
Up next, part of the criteria to define an advertisement as "false advertising".
The statement either deceives or has the potential to deceive a substantial portion of its targeted audience;
Well, this is a tricky part, but given the advertisement doesn't read " Get over $100 in FULL RELEASES OF VIDEO GAMES for just $12", as long as the market value of a portion of the contents meets the stated price, it would be a very, very weak case of false advertising.
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you qare not promised full releases, because like I mentioned before, it's not about dictionary definition of a game ads an activity, but as a game as a product, where demo is not a product just a free presentation, sample of a product. Most of key stores are called Game Store or Video Game Store, not FULL RELEASE VIDEO GAME STORE, yet you do not expect them to give you demos instead of Full Release. Also what I called false advertising and what you somehow continue to miss is actual number of games promised - 8. They promised 8 games, again not in dictionary definition, which I already explained why is useless to bring, but in product definition. 8 games, ot 7, not 6, 8. If they informed only about value of the games then as long as excluding demo it would be over 100$ everything would be fine, but if they give number, then giving less is false advertising.
There is a big difference between Early Access and a Demo. 1st of all, EA is a paid (usually full-price) product, demo is a freebie sample, EA can also be treated as preorder - when game get's released you will get a full game, demo gives no full game at all. Also since Steam, biggest store itself, started selling EA games we can very much start seeing them as a game "product" now, , so yeah, despite of what you say the reason ppl enjoy these may as well be not because they do fit your worthless dictionary definition of a game (I bet ppl would bnot enjoy rock paper scissors), but because they do fit current criteria of a PRODUCT of video game.
As for last paragraph, I already explained - you don't5 see let's say GMG call itself "FULL RELEASE VIDEO GAME KEYSTORE" yet you do not expect them to send you demo instead of game you purchase. Heck, you don't expect anyone to give you a demo instead of actual ful game and then defend themselves saying "technically we didn't say full release, and since you can play it it fits dictionary definition of a word "game" ". DSomehow only Humble gets free pass on that.
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The bundle they put today days if I get Monthly or not, be good HB team.
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I finally decided to pull the trigger on the humble monthly... bought me a 12 month sub.... immediately gave away xcom2 ;).
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Yay! =)
And that 10% Humble Store thing can really help, too. :)
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When everyone here worrying about what game will be revealed
and here I'm, worrying about the sysreq of any game (including XCOM2) on it
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Is it worth it? What games are comparable with XCOM?
Do I own any games that can be compared with xcom? I just want to know if I will like it or not :)
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If you buy a 12 month subscription, do you pay the one fee at once, or do you pay per each month?
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Would've been cool if you can sign up for 12-month subscription, but given that they have no way for you to stop your payment, the fees have to be upfront. I've had a discussion with Humble support about it some time last year.
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All at once! So it's a lot of money at once, so make sure you won't go into financial trouble shortly after^^ The good thing about the 12 month subscription is that you don't need to pay a cent more the rest of the year, and ofc wouldn't need to worry about paying every month (if you would be interested ofc) or if you would forget it. Just sit back and press F5 on your bundlepage when it's time! :)
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Played XCOM2 for hours, well worthed even without DLC, Humblebundle should bring something more special this year... Like Civ VI 😀,
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Is normal i have unsubscribed this month because i don'tt like the game,and now i get 10%off months coupon? I know is just for the first month......it's because i have unsubscribed?
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Humble Original: A game about running over poor deers
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Heads up for people with 1 or more month unsubbed! I received right now an email for 10% off the monthly, needless to say that I subscribed again.
EDIT: Oh and in the bundle page (if you received the email) you can claim $5 for the Humble Wallet.
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Received the email as well, wondering ...
Could you use that $5 Humble credit for the monthly purchase, or is it just a bonus after the fact?
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How it works? I paid the monthly, but not receiving the 5$. I think i fucked up that :(
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You need to receive the email that perroliho posted and click into it for it to work. Also the promotion is only for people that is resubscribing.
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Saw it, when you are resubscriber, on the purchase page, on the top, there is abutton to redeem the money.
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Excuse me but "resubscriber" stand for people that hasn't been buying the last months?
Or people that renew their subsciption?
I know it's a silly question but I'm somehow confused, just recieved the email :D
Thanks in advance for any clarification!
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Excuse me but "resubscriber" stand for people that hasn't been buying the last months?
Or people that renew their subsciption?
Those are essentially the same thing.
People who have been unsubscribed for at least 2 months, from what I've seen, but in some caes people who have only been unsubbed for a month have gotten it.
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Keys are temporarily exhausted for this product
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i was a subscriber and cancelled it 6 month ago. now i got a coupon from my last bundle purchase. i bought it.
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I noticed something when I was testing the cancellation of the monthly:
"If you pause, you'll lose these subscriber perks for one month. If you cancel, you'll lose them completely!"
"Your curated monthly bundle of games"
"10% off in the Humble Store"
"Special access to the Humble Trove of games"
WTF is "Special access to the Humble Trove of games"?! That sounds like some redundant and made up shit.
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That's the same I was thinking, haha! Perhaps they just consider them loyal if they go back? :)
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Damn.. They made it so you won't even get the 10% off when you pause. :o
And lol, indeed it sounds weird with the Trove of games XD Fairy tale time!
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A quick question: If you subscribe for the 6-month, can you cancel it straight away and still receive all 6 months or will you only receive 1?
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I believe if you pay for 6-months then you get all 6.
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Not sure. I wouldn't even dare to do that tbh. I would rather just wait till the 6 months are over and then cancel the subscription.
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But you can just buy it as a gift version and then it's non-recurring?
And while Xcom 2 is region restricted, could you trade with the humble gift link?
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☞ Purchase the FEBRUARY monthly bundle! ☜
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