Buying this year's jingle jam?
What Magicka 2 WHAT
I was definitely not expecting that. What a pleasant surprise :D
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Seeing yesterday's unlocks, I am pretty happy coming back to this thread. It was a pretty interesting week (a HUGE improvement over the previous one). Kudos to Yogscast, because the bundle is becoming a lot worthy. cheers
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I'm a psychic and I see that today's games will suck. 😉
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All right, I went ahead and got it. More GA's, coming right up.
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My charity disappeared from hb and I was waiting for it to return before I bought this. Now, i see a bunch of stuff is out of stock for new purchases. That's dumb.
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wtf a bunch of titles are already marked as sold out, and they are not even unlocked
this is getting interesting
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I'm guessing those are part of the "50k keys limit", and their devs will not provide additional keys thus no keys for new customers.
Very curious now as to which games they could be; should be something good? I'm going to take a wild guess and say one of them is Rocket League just because Psyonix seem like awesome people.
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That would be really good. I still dream about having alien isolation in there. Perfect xmas title.
But we also have to take into account that there are some marked as partially sold out .maybe that unlock consists of 2-3 games, and just one of those is sold out.
Whatever the case, my hype is back haha
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King Arthur's Gold is also sold out. Also never get hyped for anything because you will be twice as disappointed.
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https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/mCkT9/humble-bundle-yogscast-jingle-jam-2016-new-games-added-every-day-whole-december/search?page=8#1aXHKnI
December 23 Frozen Synapse
iam only say
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The bundle has been on sale for 18 days and specifically said there were limited quantities.
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Don't get butthurt. They specifically stated from the get-go that there were limited quantities.
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The fact that they announced that some games would come in limited quantities does not in any way make this any less idiotic.
I mean, what the bloody hell, why wouldn't they put the limited games at the beginning of the bundle instead of making them unavailable before they are even announced? It makes no sense.
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How does it make no sense?
This way people might "panic buy" the bundle because they hope something good will come after the 24th. Which means more sales for Yogscast. If you would release it early, people would prey on it, spam it until it's sold out, and then sales would wither down again because no one gives AF about free to play crap.
It makes a lot of sense.
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Nobody will panic buy when they know that they won't be getting 5 games that other people already got. If you would release it early, people who like those games will buy the bundle and those who don't will wait and buy it eventually when more stuff is revealed and won't mind the games they are missing on as much because they weren't interested in them in the first place.
Sales will wither down now because people who have waited are a lot less likely to buy it since they are getting less and there are fewer new reveals to convince them.
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First people complain that the bundle isn't good enough. Then later they complain that the quantities are limited now that they are interested in buying in. You just can't win with some people O_o
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I'll never be interested in this bundle, but you can't really say you don't get them.
There's a lot of people who's just waiting to see if the bundle's worth it. Probably 90% of users (included myself) didn't even read the "limited availabilty" label up there. I'm going to dare and say it's a 99%, as humble bundles never worked this way.
Now, after so many users waited in vain, they say "oh, well, 1/6 games are sold out" without changing the price.
I mean, what would you do if you went to the grocery store, saw only expired food on the shelf and the manager told you "first come, first served, bitch"? You'd leave. And you would be right.
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as humble bundles never worked this way.
This is not true. This is a special annual bundle and it has worked this way in years past as well. If people don't know then that is their fault for A) not being informed, and B) not reading in the first place
Also, your grocery store analogy is flawed. You are comparing apples to oranges as they say. Food is a fairly basic necessity of life, video games aren't. You can't assign anywhere near such a level of importance to them.
edit: meanwhile, what seems to be getting completely lost in this (with entitled people) is the fact that this is a 100% to charity bundle
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Once a year it's limited, while 11 months a year you don't even have to question about availability.
Of course, as everything, it's your fault if you didn't read in the first place, but you would assume a rare condition like that, that happens only once a year, was addressed somewhere in the description of the bundle or in a message somewhere other than a stupid little tag.
For the example, grocery does not work, but everything else works pretty fine.
Let's say it's a chocolate store with expired chocolate. Not a prime necessity, works.
Let's say it's a make up store with expired make ups. Not a prime necessity, works.
Let's say it's a toy store with damaged toys. Not a prime necessity, works.
It's not hard to be flexible enough to find an example, and... guess what? There are grocery stores that sell something other than food.
Actually, videogames with missing and unnecessary parts can be sold as well for a discounted price.
I wouldn't buy a physical copy of a game with a damaged box for full price, but as long as the disc is working I may buy the product for a discounted price.
Here, we can see a bundle with missing games being sold for full price. It's like buying a set of glasses knowing there will only be 5 instead of 6 and the price won't be discounted. You CAN do that, but at your loss.
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So, first apparently almost 25% of the bundle mysteriously vanishes ($650 dropped to $500), then some people are now told that sorry, you get partial bundles, because you didn't want to jump totally blindly into the well fast enough.
Charity or no charity, this really should be renamed Humble Bait and Switch Bundle.
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25% vanished i agree, but the second part is not now, because they said it from the beginning that only 50k bundle buyers will get everything, thats not a new message, dont know what is hard to unterstand when they write only 50k bundles, be quick...
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I don't see the 50k anywhere. It says limited availability, but no specifics whatsoever. Heck, they don't write a single word about limited quantities in the detailed description, even though it is updated every day with the title of the freshly-revealed games.
All other bundle sites display a very obvious counter when limited amounts are available, but Humble is notoriously infamous of never properly informing customers on actual limitations (like telling anyone a product in a bundle is region-locked).
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At the date i bought it, first few hours after release, it clearly said on the main page only 50k 30$ bundles and you can read it, too, here on the site. But i dont look everyday at the shop page, maybe after reaching the 50k they had to change the description, because they got more keys for some offers up to 75k? and for some offers not.
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the information was there. they removed it, because they got some more keys. if i recall correctly, they said from the beginning that they will mark unavailable games on the site for new buyers. that they still sell bundles with games now is just a bonus round. all good.
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On the HumbleBundle site it still says 650$ - so where do those $500 come from?
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It was told on reddit by Yogscast, see Mille's initial post and the link in it.
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The bundle never "dropped" from $650 to $500. The Humble page has said $650 the entire time. One reddit post extremely early on said "over $500". $650 is over $500. Nothing changed.
As for the partial bundles; they clearly communicated from day one that there was a 50K limit on some keys. They immediately posted on the bundle page when some of the keys ran out. There was no bait and switch.
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People are never happy unless they have something to complain about. First, the bundle is crap and not worth buying, now how dare they stick to what they said and enforce the limited quantity of bundles, which shouldn't matter because the bundle is crap and no one wants to buy it, right?
How hard life is that paying $30 and the bundle isn't specifically catered to you and when you want to buy it.
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On the other hand, when any other bundle site does something similar, like when Groupees dropped a promised game and put a 1-dollar coin in its place, people whipped out the pitchforks faster you could have said "tea party". It is not the first time I see that some company can do shit other companies are demanded to be publicly hanged for (coughbethesdacough), and it is getting a wee bit tiresome.
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Yep. I was about to say it is surprisingly new for any bundle, then i saw that it has less than 1000 owners, only 120 people ever played and barely a tenth of that actually finished it, and nobody on the planet has touched it in the past two weeks according to SteamSpy.
I guess another example of "you cannot sell a game without proper marketing"?
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yeah, it's a shame. maybe it gets more visible now thanks to the bundle. and it's a really nice addition for us. :)
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It also doesn't help that solid games are getting buried amongst the avalanche of trash from Greenlight and relegated to toil in obscurity as a result. It's like a sick twisted version of "Where's Waldo?". Good luck finding that motherfucker. And from the point of view of the developer, good luck getting noticed.
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Verily, albeit it is a problem plaguing the creative arts ever since civilisation exists. Not just nice games with actual effort are buried, with the creators hopelessly waiting for people to come and buy it; it can be said for anything, from books to films or any similar thing. Simply put, it is not the quality of the work that counts but the sum you slipped to the town crier to advertise it.
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There's still plenty of people who will appreciate and enjoy it even if it's not hyped or played by thousands of people on a daily basis. Unfortunately, a lot of people only aim for the hyped stuff and everything that's basically thrown into their faces with major advertisement but rarely give smaller companies and indie developers a chance. Maybe they decided to take this opportunity to introduce their game to more people. Who knows. Personally, I like the style of the game and I like platformers and don't really care about numbers or ratings so I'm definitely going to check it out when I can. =)
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They said that they'll probably have all games available before reaching 75 000, somewhere in their blog. But not sure if that means anything concrete and that'll readd these missing titles later. The bundle pretty decent so far, actually. Haven't expected that.
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The last four days have been a great turnaround. Multiple games all four days with no F2P pack filler and some really solid titles (Gunpoint, Magicka 2, Shu).
I really like where this bundle is heading in terms of newer, never before bundled games. Shadwen, Toy Odyssey, Shu, and Hue (leaked for Christmas Day) are all first time bundled 2016 released games.
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Im really wondering if Tremorgames will be ever add that bundle... I had Shu on my wishlist from long time.
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No chance, probably. They either do cheap ones or charge extreme amounts for those from highly costing bundles or BTAs.
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Meh, maybe they will even add it, but I doubt it i'll even be able to get it, since with good bundles they always put really few stocks and ALWAYS when I sleep.
And I have over 207k coins to use but nothing to buy... Waiting for the Winder Sale at this point...
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207... Thousands... Of... Coins... Holy moly. Why not spend them on CS or TF keys then? You can resell those on Steam Market to buy games later.
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I think Custom order is more cheap than buying those TF2/CSGO keys...
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I doubt they are many games with good original cost/requested cost in coins ratio. Of course, you can get load of cheapies but what for? It's really more rational to just take the keys.
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I use Custom order only with games on sales, not full price. <w<
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It's possible. They added the Yogscast 2015 bundle and most of the games were reasonably priced. Shu will probably be rebundled eventually though. Same publisher/developer as Chip, which got bundled many times.
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Shu will probably be rebundled eventually though.
Agreed. I'll be waiting.
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AFAIK the bundle is limited to 1 per Account/IP what ever.... so it wont happen
u see that already on bundlestars tremor just add 5-7 copies of each game of those bundles
because probably just the admins buy 1 bundle with their accounts
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Aw, I'd never heard of Shu and it looks quite nice. =) I'm wishlisting it, but no way I buy the bundle just for that (or at all, given the sketchiness around it). Maybe it'll go down in price during the winter sale. Glad it's being promoted at least!
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Fuck all the haters, this bundle has turned around 100% the last few days.
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Frozen Cortex
SteamWorld Dig
Binary Domain
Guild Wars 2 Heroic Edition not available in my Region(((
and I have no keys for Steamworld and Domain yet((
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I have no keys for SteamWorld Dig and Binary Domain as well.
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No key yet as well. And since I'm in Cambodia for holiday, HB removed my key for Guild Wars...(I live in europe normally)
I've sent a ticket.
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No. Apparently guildwars 2 doesn't have any region restrictions as well when redeeming a key purchased from EU and activate on NA cause their account is region specific but can be played globally as far as im concerned.
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I wonder if Steamworld and Domain were supposed to be tomorrow and they messed up and revealed it today.
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So "Guild Wars 2 Heroic Edition" is just few in-game items. Not very heroic. haha.
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Guild Wars 2 says "redeem on ncsoft." It's not on Steam.
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Very surprised to see this in the bundle!
hmm it shows the Steam logo under the game on the bundle page...
edit: looks like GW2 isn't even available in the Steam store though
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Yes, the Steam logo is an error-- it should be the "key" logo.
Also, GW2 is free-to-play. It looks like the Heroic Edition gives three extras:
- 18 extra bag slots
- 10 bonus XP potions
- cosmetic armor skin
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Had no idea it was free-to-play. I remember it being AAA-priced.
edit: the core game went F2P in Aug 2015 apparently
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It went F2P for base game when they released Heart of Thorns Expansion.
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And F2P limited way too much player activity, it's more like a demo then a real F2P game.
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Yeah, seems like it has tons of limits.
I guess these keys remove those locks, but don't give access to new content, so you have to pay full price if you wanna continue.
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Yes, it seems like the free account restrictions are lifted, and we get some small "Heroic" upgrades. Given how critical the expansion seems to be to serious play, I guess this is essentially a trial on steroids.
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Take it from a player since launch. The expansion isn't as critical as it seems to be, at least not if you're creating a new account at this time. By the time a new player finished a full round in the core story, and thus hit Lv.80 and became eligible for any of the content available in the expansion, they would know by then if they wanted to continue playing and buy.
I will admit, the F2P limits which this key will remove are rather stifling, but with how pervasive gold seller bots are I can understand the reason.
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4 games today. Why they curate that horrible second week is beyond me. I recommend steamworld dig 101%. One of my favorites games on steam! My hype is getting higher by the minute. Cheers
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Yeah but no keys for Steamworld and Binary at the moment..
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Also no keys here, opened a ticket with hb support
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I also did not receive these 2 games and I signed up on 2 December, long before they sold out.
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Don't think it's an issue with the selling out, since those games aren't listed as having sold out anyway. My guess is that those two games were actually supposed to be tomorrow's unlock but they screwed up somewhere with the bundle page.
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i'm going to hold off on opening a ticket for this reason. also i already own both steamworld dig and binary domain so they'll just sit until i get around to giving them away.
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Binary Domain is great. Shame it will never get a sequel :/. It was a freebie though so adding it to this bundle doesn't add much value.
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no, free games are always terrible. even if mankind devided or WAtchdogs 2 will be offered for free they get instantly bad games. thats a fact
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The issue is that many here already own it due to the freebie. Great game, and one that I really enjoyed but it lost most of its value by going for free.
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That's the main page just re-hidden Binary Domain and Steamword Dig
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that took a while to change! guess they'll be back for real tomorrow.
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Thanks for the update! I'm wondering what tomorrow's games will be 😇
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It's frustrating. I saw Steamworld before I left work and my walk home was filled with mental images of playing it.
But tomorrow is my work's Christmas party, so I wont even get to play it then either :(
actual #firstworldproblems here, I know.
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Makes more sense people say there weren't any steam keys for those two lol. Fixed it^^
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I still do not have the key Guild Wars 2: Heroic Edition.
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If it doesn't appear in your purchase page at all, then it must be region locked in your region.
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Correct, check out https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/215289547
However strange that they don't hand out a key, even though you can't redeem it, you would have still been able to trade it.
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Yogscast Jingle Jam 2016
View Yogscast' live stream on his twitch channel here!
Previous Yogscast bundle: 2015
Important notes:
"Purchase soon, we are only selling about 50,000 of these special bundles!"It's 50.000 of the $30 bundles, and it may be more. Read more here!30th &, 31st!Contribute $5 (about €4.70) or more to get DATLOF and a shout-out from Yogscast
Contribute $30 (about €28.21) or more to get these games... and more added EVERY DAY in December!
Notes:
*cards for Toy Odyssey is not yet live, but will be soon!Cards are live!Other stuff:
Retail: $585.47 (Steam titles)
Warning:
"Guns of Icarus Online", "Not The Robots", "Deep Dungeons of Doom", "Binary Domain", "Pressure" & "The Blue Flamingo" have previously been free! Giveaways CANNOT be created for those!
Are you interested in knowing other ongoing bundles? Feel free to check out the new master thread!
Wondering what games you already own from this bundle? There's an extension/UserScript for that! It's called the RaChart™ Enhancer!
Thanks Fruitbean
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