Did you forget the reason of Indie Bundles?

I don't know who first figured out that you can get away with selling shitty flash games by calling them 'indie', but they impress and disgust me equally.

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Where do you guys think we are?

Also Indieroyales (except ALPHA one) Doesn't give money to charity.

Bundles are only a form of marketing the games of unknown developers - nothing more.
And if you want to support charity, donate money directly.

That's not the reason. Humble Indie Bundle appeared to support indie developers (and charity) and it contained some really nice games but after it's success people started making lots of new bundles for the sole purpose of making money for themselves, throwing in anything they can just so they have something to sell. That's not us, that's them who forgot what bundles were for.

Two things I've noticed on this thread...
[strike] 1) Mira, I believe, works for Indie Gala (is one of three admins on their Steam group), never disclosed that in this thread, and was never called out on it in this thread. Nothing really wrong with that, but there's probably some bias to the original post that some who replied aren't considering. [/strike] [edit] See OP for edited version. [/edit]
2) Mira also never replied to any of the comments in this thread. My only guess is that he or she didn't realize that Indie Royale is not generally done for charity and after learning that, simply has nothing more to say on it. [strike](An edit to the OP's italicized statement stating otherwise would be appreciated though.)[/strike] [edit] Thank you, Mira, for clearing up the confusion and correcting things! [/edit]

Anything else I would add to this thread has been repeated tens of times already.

i'm sorry but no steam= no buy. i dont care how bad a developer is hurting or how great their game is. no steam, no buy. this is why ea will never have my money again. when its on steam i'm happy to give at least $10 per bundle, so there really is no need for you to get self-righteous about the bundles

The Humble bundle and indiegala funds raised goes to charity, the indieroyale doesnt (still that money goes directly to the devs, which is good either way).

Also, this could very be one of the main reasons you went for this business model, after all, you said it yourself: "There are kids who needs our help and you just care about games." If everyone, included gamers would care about it, just because we have a huge heart, then we wouldnt even be behind our monitors after playing Skyrim, we'd be flying our asses to Africa and try to help as many people as we can, wouldnt we?.

Then again, you also have a point in some other stuff: the latest bundles have been discussed thoroughly by gamers, not just here, and a big majority were mainly just buying these bundles because they saw a game they liked, or because they all included a steam key, or a desura key, which i dont exactly think its the mere point of an indie bundle.

I think the main point in an indie bundle is the fact that you have a group of games, that you may or may not ever heard of, and you may, or may not even like, kinda like a surprise box; the point of it is for someone who is not looking to make a big purchase, to spend a full 50$ out of their wallet, to get a 5$ surprise box instead; not only you're giving the indie devs a chance to show their products, but you're also helping charity, and the devs themselves to improve, or work on more projects.

Personally i've bought the Humble Indie Bundle 4, the Humble FrozenByte Bundle (frozen synapse was worth around 25USD) and the IndieRoyaleBundle (nuclear dawn one), the only games i was interested in these bundles were Nuclear Dawn, out of the FB bundle i found an amazing game, which i should start spending more time on: Frozen Synapse, also Total Crossfire was really addicting, and brought me back some old memories. My point here is that, i wasnt even aware of some of the games in these bundles, but i took the chance either way, and enjoyed it, i dont care about spending 20 dollars (80 pesos here, enough to pay for a giant pizza), but i care because i know that money is not going to be wasted, not for me, and not for charity, or the devs.

Either way Mirraa, i seriously doubt that someone who will spend 5$ on a bundle just because there's an android version of a game he already has on steam will actually donate money, if that is your point. This is the internet after all, and in here things are bound to be compared.....with everything.

My apologies if that wall of text was clunky, i did my best to keep it organized and easy to read, just my 2 cents on the matter.

Why not help end world hunger and support Heifer?
Yes, im a cow, deal with it.
It is a real charity sending cows to 3rd world countries so they can breed them, use them for plowing, ect.