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I don't understand why people are complaining about the Humble Bundles lack of indieness and humbleness now. They have been very popular for a good amount of time, voiding its ability to call itself humble. Even though they popularized themselves through indie games, the humble bundle chose not to restrict itself to just indie games. You also have the weekly sales, which also adds to their delivering of non-indie games.

And from an average user standpoint, it seams odd that people are complaining about inexpensive games.

Typical HN whining about everything (I mean not you but the other negative comments)

I don't like EA too but that's a generous offer. I paid more than the avarage, got some awesome games and my money went to charities. I won, the charities won and I guess EA won too.

+ I guess no one remembers here that how bad Steam was in 2004. It was the worst thing ever and essentially it killed the CS scene. Now look at Steam and everyone loves it. I love it too. And I just want to say that I believe everyone can change, so EA and Origin too.

FYI: This weekly sale includes Uplink! One of the most fun "hacking" simulators out there [1]. https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

[1] Then again, how many are there? 3?

Huge thanks from our entire team for including Watsi in this bundle. We're smiling from ear to ear thinking about the patients whose lives will be changed because of it.

This doesn't feel like a Humble Bundle to me. I loved Humble for spotlighting great Indie games. If I want cheap older triple-A titles I'll buy them during a steam sale.

All of the proceeds are going to charity (unless you choose to do the humble tip)

Some of these games are Origin-only, and aren't on Steam.

yeah, but then you'd have to install origin to play those.

not worth it.

While Origin is by no means an indie developer, kudos to them for donating all of their proceeds to charity.

Also, it's hard to find these games on a Steam sale for this cheap. I could get one, maybe two for what I just paid for the bundle.

edit: It appears that even if they use Origin (blarg), many can still be installed with Steam:

- Crysis 2 Maximum Edition - Dead Space 1 - Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box - Mirror's Edge - Medal of Honor

(from http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/125...)

It is great that it's all going to charity, and as you said, kudos to Origin for that. I just don't like the direction Humble is going. I want them to be a place I can go to find interesting Indie games I might not have heard of before.

Gotta hand it to EA, this is a great way to increase their Origin install base.

To everyone complaining about Origin or that these are mainstream games:

EA is giving the entirety of their income from this to charity. They likely think getting people to install Origin is a net benefit, but what more do you want?

HIB is getting out of touch. I talked to a developer whose game have been in HIB once, he said he didn't really received any notable amount of money anyway.

HIB is more about exposure than revenue. Hopefully, the exposure will lead to increased revenue on future endeavors.

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