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Letter of Thanks to Wolfire Games

akash.im

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The problem with the Humble Bundle, as with Radiohead's pay-what-you-want album and other, similar efforts, is that they clearly work once but it's not at all obvious that the effect could be repeated, let alone sustained. For example, almost all the games in the current Humble Bundle were games I'd known about for a while, and wanted to play, so it was a pretty easy decision to shell out. If there was to be a Humble Bundle 2, what games would be in it? For most of the creators involved in the current Bundle, they have no other non-freeware works.

I hope there's a Humble Bundle 2 someday, maybe in a year's time when people have had time to play all the games from the first Bundle, and maybe feel a bit nostalgic for the crazy "indy-gaming-yeah!" vibe. I don't think they could stage one more frequently than that; not without an amazing uptick in the number of eligible games.

I think so too - these aren't your garden variety struggling-to-make-ends-meet indie games, these were all very successful and profitable games long before the Humble Bundle.

Actually, Wolfire has done this a couple of times before I believe. Who ever said these promotions worked once? As far as I can see that is just an assumption to clarify the crazy, crazy behaviour of consumers not adhering to the "people will pay the least possible for a product" theories of current economics.

I say, give it a shot.

Exactly! Well, IMHO, if it's conducted like an online "faire", would be cool. Coz then featuring in the Humble Bundle might become a hotshot status among indie developers. Not that if you dont feature it would be bad. But if this is done regularly, there are chances of everyone in the indie world keeping tabs abt this event.

P.S: Maybe someday this might become CES for indie devs :) if conducted offline. Or am I thinking too far?

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