it lets me customise the tip/charity/bundle organiser ratio and i’m 85% sure I’ve gone under $7 for the tip multiple times
Comment on Humble creating a bundle for this game is wild
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 month agoThey sold to IGN a few years ago.
It was also when they introduced a $7 minimum humble tip for the bundles
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 month ago
You can still customize it, but it has hard minimum at what I think is $7. The old humble had no minimum at all.
IGN leaning in to make its money back, most likely.
lud@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Instead of speculating I just tried and the minimum you can go on the bundle above is 3,75 EUR.
Apparently the minimum to Humble is generally between 15% and 30%
This bundle had no minimum to the publisher but some bundles apparently do.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 month ago
I think they’d already lost their way a long while before that.
They started as indies grouping together to get visibility, at a time when Steam still curated every game and accepted maybe 4 games a month (yeah, hard to imagine today. It’s still hard to be noticed, but for the opposite reason). Back then they distributed only DRM-free games too, with eventually a Steam key option.
At some point they opened their own store and started including big publisher games, and really became just another store, and mostly a key store too. They spew some bullshit about not being specifically a DRM-free store, but really “DRM-agnostic”. “We don’t restrict publishers’ choice of DRM, they can be DRM-free if they want!”
And I’m like, dude, it’s not a stance, Steam technically doesn’t either. You may need the client to install but plenty of games don’t run on any DRM, not even Steamworks.