Getcomposted: Is it just me, or is HumbleBundle devaluing its brand with these awful bundles for their supposedly flagship model?
Cyraxpt: Actually it's more of the whole industry than only Humble Bundle, Steam used to have great deals (-75%) but now they prefer to publicize the games during the sales and previous games that had i higher discount, let's say -75%, now only have something like -33 ~ -50%,
I'd be very curious what their sales data looks like. The deep-discount era may indeed be coming to an end, or they may just be testing the waters of alternate strategies, or any number of possibles.
Personally for me, the deep discount era, at least for a while, led to me spending more money overall and buying a lot (a lot) of games that now primarily just look nice on my virtual bookshelf, both games I might have bought anyway, but probably moreso it enabled a lot of impulse buying.
I think I bought 11 games just during Double Insomnia ($45 or so), and in the intervening year I've only really 'dealt with' 3-4 of them (1-2 donated, 1 completed, 1 mostly completed then abandoned). Without the sale I probably would've spent $15-20, maybe, eventually.
I do likewise still find some good, deep discounts on the various platforms, they just require a bit more patience and we're not overwhelmed with steep cuts on top games all the time. That might not be such a bad thing, all in all.