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I'd be sad, but they're mostly already dead to me.
I'm a humble monthly bundle subscriber. Yearly subscriber. Because so far, I've been interested in practically all the games they delivered to me through that mean.

But I'll closely watch what's unfolding later.

After all, I'm a GOG/Steam/Uplay/Origin/Bethesda launcher user, so I must admit that for the moment, I mostly don't care about that news.
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xa_chan: I'm a humble monthly bundle subscriber. Yearly subscriber. Because so far, I've been interested in practically all the games they delivered to me through that mean.

But I'll closely watch what's unfolding later.

After all, I'm a GOG/Steam/Uplay/Origin/Bethesda launcher user, so I must admit that for the moment, I mostly don't care about that news.
What is "Bethesda launcher user"?
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xa_chan: I'm a humble monthly bundle subscriber. Yearly subscriber. Because so far, I've been interested in practically all the games they delivered to me through that mean.

But I'll closely watch what's unfolding later.

After all, I'm a GOG/Steam/Uplay/Origin/Bethesda launcher user, so I must admit that for the moment, I mostly don't care about that news.
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morrowslant: What is "Bethesda launcher user"?
Yeah, Bethesda made sure its card game about The Elder Scrolls only launches through a proprietary launcher. A dick move, as far as I'm concerned.
By the way, am I the only one thinking about massive tax breaks here? Humble's big on charity, after all...
To be honest, I thought this month's early unlock for Humble Monthly (Elder Scrolls online and stuff for Quake Champions) stank a little bit of something unpleasant, and I have the sneaking suspicion that IGN already had their finger in it. It's a fair bet that most of the monthly stuff and the Humble Bundles themselves will now be "tasters" for masses of DLC, subscriptions and microtransactions as part of IGN's advertising business.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt this month, but if my suspicion turns out to be true, I'll be cancelling next month. The quality of the monthlies has already been debatable for the past few months (barring the odd gem like Rise of the Tomb Raider).
Post edited October 16, 2017 by _ChaosFox_
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xa_chan: Yeah, Bethesda made sure its card game about The Elder Scrolls only launches through a proprietary launcher. A dick move, as far as I'm concerned.
It wasn't so long ago that this kind of fragmentation was what people wished for. Two sayings come to mind: "be careful what you wish for" and "you reap what you sow".

Not being funny, but if you use Steam, Uplay or Origin - platforms that were brought into existence in the first place to power and distribute the operator's own games (Half Life 2, Assassin's Creed 2 and Battlefield 3 respectively) - you don't really have much right to complain when a publisher tries to establish their own platform to compete. The fragmentation was an obvious consequence, and digital distribution was always supposed to be about developers and publishers distributing their own stuff. It's really only a matter of time until Activision reappropriates Battle.net as its main digital distribution platform, Take 2 reappropriates R* Social Club for its digital distribution efforts and CDPR just stops distributing on Steam altogether and relies solely on GOG. Eventually Steam will be little more than a platform for F2P crap and assorted other shovelware.

This isn't a go at your comment or yourself specifically, just pointing out that this widespread idea of publishers branching away from Steam to form their own platforms is no more of a "dick move" than Valve requiring the installation and use of Steam to install and run Half-Life 2 back in 2004.
This may be a double post. Excuse me if it is.

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zeogold: By the way, am I the only one thinking about massive tax breaks here? Humble's big on charity, after all...
We do an average 9-11% to charity on a monthly basis. Usually a cause suggested by one of our moms. Tax breaks aren't that big.
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zeogold: By the way, am I the only one thinking about massive tax breaks here? Humble's big on charity, after all...
Never though about that one, but would you still have to pay tax if one part of the company is a news site? or does owning humble give all of what they own tax free way out?
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drmike: We do an average 9-11% to charity on a monthly basis. Usually a cause suggested by one of our moms. Tax breaks aren't that big.
I'm completely unsure how the numbering works since I'm illiterate in terms of finances, but isn't it different with big companies? Like, isn't that a good chunk of the reason corporations and all that will go all ultra-philanthropic, because the amount they spend is worth it to save on the tax money?
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DreamedArtist: Never though about that one, but would you still have to pay tax if one part of the company is a news site? or does owning humble give all of what they own tax free way out?
You have to get whatever it is officially categorized as a charity...I think. Not sure.
Post edited October 17, 2017 by zeogold
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drmike: We do an average 9-11% to charity on a monthly basis. Usually a cause suggested by one of our moms. Tax breaks aren't that big.
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zeogold: I'm completely unsure how the numbering works since I'm illiterate in terms of finances, but isn't it different with big companies? Like, isn't that a good chunk of the reason corporations and all that will go all ultra-philanthropic, because the amount they spend is worth it to save on the tax money?
I would think the big corporations would be doing it more for the PR value and getting their name out there.

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DreamedArtist: Never though about that one, but would you still have to pay tax if one part of the company is a news site? or does owning humble give all of what they own tax free way out?
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zeogold: You have to get whatever it is officially categorized as a charity...I think. Not sure.
The corporations would be separate. Each of them would pay their own taxes on their own income and profits.

Perfect example of this would be some of the supermarkets chains I've worked for. Each store is it's own corporation. (Which I've discovered surprises a lot of folks.) When I gave away cups and plates to a church for a fundraiser dinner, the store deals with the receipt and the tax write off.
Post edited October 17, 2017 by drmike
IGN and Gamespot are the fake news of the gaming industry. I hate them them both and their yes-man shill scripted "reviews."
Post edited October 17, 2017 by Ancient-Red-Dragon
Ahahahaha, it was only 4 days ago what I wrote how "I can't fathom how they could make Humble any more awful".

Foolish me! They took me up on my challenge and within 4 days they implemented two changes that SIGNIFICANTLY worsen the user experience:

- You're now asked to enter a date of birth when accessing M-rated games. Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but I never bother to enter my acutal date of birth. I just click on whatever year that would put me above the age of 18. Now, Humble actually implemented a system that REMEMBERS the date of birth you entered. And if you want to check for another M-rated game you get blocked from accessing the page if you don't enter the exact same date of birth again!

Retardation level: SUBSTANTIAL

- For some reason they messed around with the "Choose where your money goes". Best go and see for yourself. Words can't do it justice. You can no longer enter the precise amount you want to give to each party. Instead, you now have arrows to increase or decrease the amount. Thing is, those arrows don't add/subtract 1 cent with each click, but one Dollar! Yes, you literally can only add full dollars by clicking on these arrows! The only way for you to enter the precise amount you want to give to each dev is to painstakingly dick around with those sliders.

Retardation level: CRITICAL

(edit: Disregard the above point about not being able to enter the desired amount. That does seem to work after all - sometimes, kind of, sort of.)

I'm honestly amazed and a bit dumbstruck by the sheer amount of idiocy Humble managed to implement in two small changes. Good job, guys!

Their current Aussie bundle is mostly DRM-free (with the exception of crowd favourite "Armello", which is at the highest tier) and has a bunch of gog indies that will probably end up on connect sooner rather than later, so you might want to check it out for yourselves.
Post edited October 18, 2017 by fronzelneekburm
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fronzelneekburm: - You're now asked to enter a date of birth when accessing M-rated games. Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but I never bother to enter my acutal date of birth. I just click on whatever year that would put me above the age of 18. Now, Humble actually implemented a system that REMEMBERS the date of birth you entered. And if you want to check for another M-rated game you get blocked from accessing the page if you don't enter the exact same date of birth again!
That's why you ALWAYS have to select 01/01/1980. :P


PS: Yep, I also had some trouble when selecting the amounts of money but in the end I could do it.
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muntdefems: That's why you ALWAYS have to select 01/01/1980. :P
Ill use that for now on! Would be great if it becomes a trend.