Humble Bundle's response to the complaints and praise of the Daily Bundles

If it's FOR SCIENCE! then that's fine, I guess. They should have been able to infer what bundles people like without that sort of thing anyways, but I guess as long as they learn from it, it's alright.

summary: its for charity whats wrong with you geeks! geeeeez!

They should have mentioned not only how much money went to charity, but also how much they made for themselves ;-)

It looks like the only ones not making any money here, are the game devs...

Thanks for the pointer, but unfortunately, there's not much information there. It's basically, "we tried something new, some stuff worked better than others, we're listening to feedback, and we raised a bunch of money for charity." I would have liked to see more from them -- what exactly where they testing here, what things worked, what didn't work and why didn't it work, what were some of the most common feedback and how do they plan to address it? I guess it's going to take some time for them to read all the feedback they got for 2 weeks though and understand how it fits in with what they want to do before that can give us some results from their experiments.

I have some conclusions of my own.

• The rebundles that will make the most sales, are the ones that made the most sales the first time around. Just don't reredo Team 7 and Deep Silver, at least not right now.
• Rebundles are acceptable, even welcomed depending on the content (eg. Origin and WB).
• People want at least one game per tier.
• People want more games per tier.
• People want steam games. Other forms of art can do well, but not as well as Steam games.
• People want greater discounts.

I like the idea of daily bundles. It probably gets them a lot more concentrated traffic and if the BTA tier does well, then they will make more money faster but not assuredly overall.

My two big problems were the following:
Tier 1: artwork. It's really nice. I love artwork. But hey, how many players think that "Maan, I have the game, I definitely need the artwork for 1$". And how many players will look at that, and say " 1$ tier? for a f****n artwork?" Artwork or music is great. But they should use it as a bonus, not as a base.
Tier 1: games bundle (yes, I'm looking at you, Hammerwatch and Total War Bundle). Tier 2: game bundle, that's tier 1+ some other games.
So essentially if you buy a higher tier, you'll get multiple copies of certain games. Like, 4 pieces of T.W:Napoleon if you bought Grandmater pack. That's just a joke.
And, finally, it's a little disappointing, when one of the biggest strategy-series' bundle have a 75-80% off (not counting the multiples in!) and some players are crying about highest tier being...50$ maybe (don't remember). They just need to face facts: if you want to buy for example a spaceship, even with -99% off it would costs quite a lot. But it's still fuckin' cheap in it's own type. For me that incident made it clear that humblebundle's cryboys/girls are actually cheap players, who want massive-massive amount of games for as low as possible - if something's price is reasonably, yet incredibly good (max discount usually -90% at sales, -75% is great compared to that), that makes them go nuts.
For next week's bundle I want a tier 1: full origin (1$) and Tier 2: everything on Steam, including everything that is or ever will be in greelight for 3... no wait, that's too much, 2!! dollars. Thanks for reading.

Humble have become masters of bullshit. So much meaningless PRspeak in that blog post. "Banter in the humble community" = Universal disappointment.

they tried something new, they failed and they acknowledged that (kinda). they will (probably) not going to do this daily thing again. now, shut up people.

It's not a response to anything.
They said they were 'doing something new and experimental' from the get-go.
This is a very limited re-cap with the whole usual 'you bought stuff but paid charity, not us' silliness that's popular nowadays.

I actually liked the idea of a daily bundle. I didn't much care for most of the bundles though.

First, there needs to be at least a game in the first tier. I'm not buying a bundle where I have to beat a set price, or the average, just to get a game.

Second, I'm a Linux user, and there was a surprising lack of Linux support in the daily bundles.

"We're just seeing how profitable we can be.

PS: Fuck you."

They just wanted to see if people are stupid enough to buy their overpriced bundles and if they get more profit from them.

Only the first day was a bundle. The other 13 days, well... yeah... The same as a steam sale (apart from the fact that a steam sale is probably better). And I didn't like the tier1 artwork pieces of crap.

I remember the first humblebundles. No minimum price, if you bought early you always received the games they added. And they even gave you a complete earlier bundle for free. Those were the times :D

Yeah Mr. Humble! Yeah Science!

Bitch

pffft, what bullshit is that? Experiment on how much they will still earn even with super shitty bundle? experiment on how popular they are that gullible people will still pay with a dumb bundle?

It was obviously an experiment.
But gamers generally aren't smart and speak out of their asses nonstop.

Bundlestars and Blink Bundle are releasing great bundles so if Humble keeps on experimenting with crappy bundles, I'll simply stop buying them.
There are people who enjoyed these crappy humble daily bundles though, may god have mercy on their souls

A huge 2 week event is probably the wrong time to try a ton of new ideas all at once.

Let them do what they want..

People want games as cheap as they can get them (screw what they are) so they can trade or make steam cards they also want everything to be made for them specially while parroting bs they have heard elsewhere online so they can feel like they fit in.

Na, the 2 week bundle idea was great by itself.

The problem is that the "bundles" if we can call them like that, were too damn expensive in comparison with the regular sales, also there were not exactly the best bundles ever too.

The main problem was being over expensive. Despite of having a "decent" salary (for a third world country that is), i can only afford to spend on a regular basis around 15 dollars a week on games, which i think is a decent amount (considering a 400+ game library, i dont really require that many games anymore). maybe 35-40 once a month. But how many bundles do you expect me to get when they are all 15 bucks or more each?

On top of that, you have bundlestars, groupees, indiegala/royale, blink, pwyw. They were offering decent bundles, decent amount of games, decent prices.

so yeah, not everyone of us are rich, in fact, im pretty sure most of us are nearly broke, but still manage to save some spare dollars to support the industry we love. The cost of all 14 bundles combined, im pretty sure its more than the amount of money i have invested on my library since last 6-7 months.

Humble bundles are anything but.