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Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD

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OT but those kontera in-text ads are absolutely horrible. They are like land minds spread throughout the article making it just about unreadable (I tend to mouse over the text I am currently reading)

They're a complete fuck-over on my G1, where browser navigating seems to always want to hover on links, and the popups make it near impossible to actual read the damn article.

I generally assume that any site that is using this sort of crap is not interested in me as a reader and probably isn't concerned with the quality of the content they are offering; they are just trying to lure clicks and eyeballs.

They're a linux-oriented benchmarking site. They're probably pretty strapped for cash on a good day, so they have to use an excess of ads to stay online. They're catering to a small market, so it seems like a fair tradeoff. Besides, their most annoying ads are the easiest to block on any reasonable browser.

I used arc90's Readability to get through it all.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Thank goodness there's Adblock. I disabled it to see what you were talking about; it was terrifying.

What is really interesting is that the 'linux' buyers are willing to pay roughly 2x what the windows buyers are willing to pay. ($13.71 vs $6.40)

We're just grateful we got some games.

I was thinking abour this earlier, and I think linux users feel "wealthier" in terms of software, and so are willing to pay more. Windows users have to scour the dark, virus-infected recesses of the internet to find free software. We just do apt-get.

I know of one person who paid $0.01 to download the Windows copies. (To be fair, he's in high school and doesn't have much money, but he could probably afford more than that.) I suspect there are more of these folks on Windows than any other OS.

I'd be curious to see the averages if the top and bottom 1% were omitted.

It would be interesting to see more complete statistics.

I still love the image when you put an amount less than a dollar :)

http://cdn.humblebundle.com/hib2/sad_developer.jpg

Link to the original source, for those who want an updating total: http://www.humblebundle.com/ .

touched $1 million and I'm happy!

I bought it and influenced another friend on twitter to buy it :) Also Jeff (@humble) tweeted that he has a surprise for all buyers and that it'll be up in an hour or so. I'm curious as to what that surprise would be.

I am from a developing country, i just paid 10$ and got all the games. Awesome!

Not only that, you get all the games for ALL the platforms. I happen to have both an Ubuntu laptop and another with Windows 7.

I already had 2 of the games, Machinarium on Steam, and Braid on Xbox 360. Still bought it.

I had the two games from the bundle I wqas most interested in, so I just paid less for the bundle. I figure everyone wins that way, compared to me not buying at all.

Great success. I bought a pack for myself and it's worth every penny.

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