Are you surprised to see yet another mystery bundle?
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Is this any different from the previous mystery bundles? Or are the games the same? lol
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i got different games than from the last one. More older Games and overall cheaper games. Wouldnt recommend this one for that matter. The last one had better games
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Convoy
Farm Together
Hue
Iron Fisticle
Island Tribe
Kiai Resonance
Northern Tale 4
QoraStealth Inc 2
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
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Goodbye Deponia
Just Cause 3
Kiai Resonance
Life Is Strange Complete Season (Episodes 1-5)
Neverending Nightmares
Shoppe Keep 2
The Esoterica Hollow Earth
The Flame in the Flood
The Odyssey Winds of Athena (aka God Game : The Odyssey)
Twilight City Love as a Cure
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The Esoterica Hollow Earth
The Town of Light
White Noise Online
Roads of Rome New Generation
Tadpole Treble
Northern Tale
PAYDAY 2 Ultimate Edition
The Last Tinker City of Colors
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Krater
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Fanatical sent me a survey recently, and I made sure to mention about 12 times that they really need to cut it out with the damn mystery bundles.
Surprisingly, my feedback does not appear to have informed their corporate strategy.
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It's because $$$ informs their corporate strategy.
And since these still print money, somehow...
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Well these mystery bundles are their top selling "products". This current bundle too. So clearly there are people "enjoying" this for whatever reason.
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I think they jacked that "most popular" BS, there is no way it is the to seller, or even in the top 10
Fanatical are a bunch of liars when it comes to their "stats"
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I don't think so. If they barely had anyone buying these mystery keys/bundles, with many people voicing their opposition against these kind of deals, they wouldn't create new mystery offers pretty much every single week.
We don't get why people invest in lootboxes either, yet this is a billion $ business.
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those mystery pack should be twice cheaper. many of these indies have been givenaway for free or sold for cheap before.
theyadd mystery bindles because many people buy it and it's very profitable for fanatical.
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Dungeon Siege II
Fantasy Versus
Island Tribe
Thief Deadly Shadows
Syberia II
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Nexus The Jupiter Incident
Tropico Trilogy
Smoke and Sacrifice
Mystery Loss
Lust for Darkness
Mafia III
PixelJunk Shooter
Deus Ex Invisible War
Agatha Christie The ABC Murders
Weather Lord Following the Princess Collectors Edition
Twilight City Love as a Cure
All My Gods
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Stealth Inc 2
Porcunipine
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Viking Saga Epic Adventure
The Signal From Tlva
Learn Japanese to survive Hiragana Battle
Injustice 2
Tiny Troopers
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
Hue
Wings of Vi
Goodbye Deponia
Return to Mysterious Island
DARK
Injustice 2
Lust for Darkness
The Esoterica Hollow Earth
Qora
Gas Guzzlers Extreme
Neverending Nightmares
Injustice 2 Legendary Edition
Lemuria Lost in Space
Garfield Kart
Qora
Hamiltons Great Adventure
Hitman GO Definitive Edition
Little Racers
Road Redemption
Weather Lord Following the Princess Collectors Edition
Roads of Rome 2
Viking Saga The Cursed Ring
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I think they're using up their mystery suckers userbase too fast. What is it, a new mystery scam every two weeks?
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Fanatical for once is giving game hints on their blog for 5 games you could supposedly find in this mystery bundle. I don't think any of them have dropped yet, but I also don't have good guesses at the hints. What do other people think the hints are?
Also, Fanatical Blog post has a contest (no purchase necessary) promoting the Summer Sale:
To celebrate the launch of the Summer Sale, we're giving one lucky person the chance to win top of the range gaming equipment plus a $250 spending spree on the Fanatical Store - worth over $2,100 in total - in our Summer Scorcher contest. We've teamed up with Logitech, Shadow, Halberd and Blue Microphones to give you an awesome gaming setup and the chance to spend some digital cash on the biggest and best AAA and Indie games around. The contest is due to end on August 28th at 8am BST.
So far in this bundle I'm only seeing one game on my wishlist, so I don't have high hopes for this mystery bundle and will likely skip unless maybe a bunch of wishlist games appear in the drops.
When the Mystery Goldrush Bundle ends very soon, I do plan on writing up (in the SG post's comments and reddit) a retrospective by the numbers on how close Fanatical's claimed averages on price & reviews of drops compared to the actual drops that people reported here on SG.
EDIT: Here is the comparison of Fanatical Claims vs Reality for the last mystery bundle
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Deus Ex Mankind Divided
STAR WARS Jedi Knight Jedi Academy
Deus Ex Invisible War
Batman Arkham Knight
Tachyon Project
The Flame in the Flood
Farm Mania 2
Bomber Crew
Snake Pass
Syberia II
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2x deus, batman, bomber crew are nice. I think you're one of the few that got a good deal from this
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Yeah, I'm actually suprised and kinda happy with this drop, but also I feel like I was so lucky with this :D
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Already 6 voted [Buy]
Because of these dumbasses they'll keep coming with these scam bundles. Fk it.
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It's almost as if people have the right to decide what they think is worth their money or not.
Not saying I'm buying these or that I recommend people get it. But shaming people for not doing what you're doing is just the most cringeworthy type of elitism you can have.
It would be more than easy to get on your case for doing things that aren't "good" simply by looking through your profile, yet no one does it since they most likely also have it and they don't want to be condescending.
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Nothing related to cringy elitism, but these gambling junkies are robbing us of potential 'old-school' and buyer-friendly bundles we had until now.
Where are the Killer bundles they used to have, where are the good ones.
I, and a lot others, are tired of these mystery bullshit. I'm waiting fanatical reveals the results of their big survey they did recently, im pretty sure the vast majority said screw mystery crap, and yet they continue.
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Have you ever thought that, maybe... just maybe... the majority who purchases those mystery bundles aren't addicted game collectors with over 8k titles in their libraries? For those people, perhaps those mystery bundles are worth their money. If you're new to the bundle world and don't have that many games, it's probably a good deal.
With that being said, yeah, I'd love if Fanatical would stop with the mystery crap. I guess (hope) the trend will fade away. Eventually.
Instead of shitting on people and being all angry that you don't have "good" bundles to buy, why don't you just play a game you've never touched yet? With over 8000 games, I'm sure there are a few still waiting to be played.
Oh... and perhaps you should change your username to iGno-Rant.
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Shoppe Keep 2 Business and Agriculture RPG Simulation
Inside My Radio
Garfield Kart
Airport Madness 4
The Esoterica Hollow Earth
Tracks The Train Set Game
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Stealth Inc 2
Pumped BMX
Fox Flock
I think they may haev lied about the AAA part again. I haven't heard about any of these titles :P So I will have a look. At least only 1 game I already had, so it's not too bad I guess. :)
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seems about middle with a few decent titles, those AAAs probably went to the person above lol
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Genuinely, best active source of existential/eldritch horror.
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I'm not too into that sub and I find it a bit dull for my tastes, but it's obvious that a lot of people love that stuff, so I'm always glad to show it to people in case it piques their interest. :D
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As long as people keep buying this crap they will keep making more of these scam bundles.
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exploiting people's vices is a business tactic as old as time itself
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Yea, and seeing it take over what was once a decent bundle site pisses me off tbh. I used to like Fanatical but this mystery lootbox gambling crap over and over and over has worn thin.
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True, quick google made me giggle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game
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Sadly true. Casinos are still around because of this very idea.
By the time anyone will get the AAA game they want, they will have spent far more than just outright getting it on sale. And all they have to show for it is a bunch of prior bundled or soon to be bundled games that weren't worth the entry fee.
Fanatical clearly is ignoring what people are saying in that emailed survey about mystery bundles. We can only hope people wise up and they stop this nonsense and start offering real bundles again, because I for one will not purchase these...ever.
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Farm Together is good, but i think will be impossible with my luck...
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Lead and Gold Gangs of the Wild West
Next Up Hero
Learn Japanese to survive Hiragana Battle
Airport Madness 4
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Thief Deadly Shadows
Human Fall Flat
Tiny Troopers
Tachyon Project
Tomb Raider (2013)
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wow ,can't believe people are still buying those mystery packs.
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It's like saying "I can't believe people are sinking thousands of dollars in quarters in slot machines in one night"
I don't get it either but yeah it's a gambling addiction. What I can't believe is that websites I used to like, like Fanatical, or companies like Rockstar are so blatantly and shamelessly exploiting gambling addicts.
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The thing that is so sad is how it is changing ,and gonna change even more ,the pc games we all love to play.
What were once cool open-world games with a great story or maybe action sequences that progress as you play
are now starting to be designed , "hacked" to include "fake" barriers that require loot-box unlocking or upgrading
with items that cost real cash.
We're the lucky ones ,we'll probably look back on the last 20 years as the golden age of PC gaming ,before the rot set in.
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The rising success of open world lead to overblown worlds (trillions of things to collect, radiant fetch quests, 5 hour weak stories saved by/padded with dozens of hour of generic open world mechanics and activities) were just the base to slow progression and/or gate content. Then the grind-or-pay microtransaction really started ruining things.
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I think things got out of hands when all the F2P/P2W took hold. And then mobile gaming happened and all the non gamers who started to play "free games" and got frustrated and started buying thousands to buy shortcuts and cheats and gear etc gave the big devs mobile envy. It wasn't a big leap to the loot boxes. I mean if people were ready to pay for stuff they'd pay even more for the possibility of buying big right?
It's truly sad but hey we'll always have Skyrim.
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Summer Mystery Bundle
14 Aug 2019 -
29 Aug 201909 Sep 2019View this bundle on: ITAD - Barter.vg - [Lestrades]()
10 random games for $6.99 | β¬7.59 | Β£6.89 | CA$9.19 | AU$11.19 | RUB525
Loot box
β - Game was free at some time and does not grant any CV if given away.
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