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Comment by SethKinast | Hacker News Reader

I just don't feel the magic in "Humble Bundles" anymore. They used to be such a special event, infrequent enough that you eagerly anticipated the next.

Now, it feels as if they churn them out as fast as they can collect enough games to do another.

(This is not to disparage the excellent quality of the games in this bundle; indeed, I already own most of them.)

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For me the magic about the humble bundles was never the games, but the charities. In this case more money for them is better, and one can never have too many games anyways. For as long as the bundles are still high quality I'll always get them.

Agreed, I often end up buying bundles where I already own half the games (or books like with the fiction bundle).

I do this too, because I feel like it's a good cause. I'm currently up to 14 bundles, and have a bunch of duplicates, but I keep buying them anyway.

Besides the charity aspect of it, the goal of humble bundles is to showcase indie developers so the more the merrier I say. That way exposure is given to as many game devs as possible.

I think it's a good sign that they're becoming more frequent. It means more DRM-free games out there, and more Linux and Mac games.

The magic is in more Linux games each time!

While I still buy every one of them (twice - one for me, one for my younger brother) - I don't get why they are still posted on HN. I love the bundles, but it just doesn't seem like it is startup news anymore.

They're a YC team and they have fans here. I'd argue these are more relevant to our day-to-days than the endless stream of "Twitter and Instagram battle!!" posts.

YC isn't a start up news service. From their posting guidelines you should post "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Fair enough - but, do you consider this to be news? I wouldn't want to see event Sponsorfied lists, or every deal Dealupa has . I'd be interested in knowing when they have a new feature, are talking about infrastructure, funding, etc. Listing their current sale on HN seems out of place and doesn't really gratify my personal curiosity. As I said - I love the site - I have bought almost all of the bundles and will continue to do so - this just doesn't feel like the news that should be here.

But that is just my opinion.

anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

So where is the intellectual curiosity in online store sells things? That sounds about as mundane as possible. They call it the 7th but considering the other non numbered ones this is more like the 10th or 12th. At this point I would be more curious to see why they stop.

I have previously felt that way, but every so often they bring out a scorcher of a bundle. For example, I'd been rather underwhelmed by some of the Android and dev-specific bundles, and then they came out with HIB#6 which was packed to the gills with games I'd heard of and really wanted to play.

For me, HIB#7 isn't as exciting as HIB#6 was because a few of the games in it just aren't my cup of tea, but I'm sure there's people out there who will love them just as much as I enjoyed Torchlight and Rochard.

I agree. I already own most of the game of bundles that come out. I used to buy them anyways, to give money to charity, but now that bundles are out so often, I think more about it.

It's good that the games aren't coupled in one big Steam key, so I can give the keys to friends or family (not sure if that's OK by Bundle rules though...)

I think part of the point of the Humble Bundle is that ... it's totally okay to do that.

> All keys are for your personal use only. Once you make a purchase, you should receive a unique download page. You shall not, directly or indirectly, disclose the unique URL for your download page to anyone else or use anyone else's download page. You are solely and entirely responsible for all activities that occur on your download page.

http://www.humblebundle.com/terms

They have a mechanism for gifting the entire bundle on the order form. The TOS seems to be an attempt to prohibit giving out the games from your bundle to different people piecemeal. The verbiage hasn't been updated since HB started giving out Steam keys instead of direct download links, but intent often matters as much as what's written in a courtroom.

That said, I doubt anyone would be upset about it. The keys are one-time-use so it really shouldn't matter if you or your relative redeems them.

A humble bundle once a month is probably okay. After a month you might want to try new games anyway.

I have every (but the THQ) Humble bundle so far. I think I've played 2 games so far. Just can't find the time. Oh well.

I wonder if they'll ever offer subscriptions

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