Do you think it's possible ? We already saw Groupees bundles associated with ShinyLoot, which provides DRM-free games too, so with not ?

To be honest, inclusion in an indie bundle nowadays is more an admission of defeat that your IP is no longer exploitable along any other channel. The reason THQ did their bundle was because they were desperate for money. The reason EA did their Origin bundle was because almost nothing was selling on Origin. WBIE and Deep Silver have both done bundles on IP that is known to be pretty much unexploitable now, having done the sales rounds so often.

GOG is doing pretty well through word-of-mouth alone, although it's quite possible we may see some Witcher-related bundle towards the end of the year to drum up support for GOG and The Witcher 3. I can't imagine the Witcher 1 and 2 really getting that much money in nowadays (especially not Witcher 1).

Then again, we're seeing a marked decline in bundle trends, mostly due to an industry-wide effort to try and avoid reliance on bundle sales - Indie Royale and Groupees have largely only been tossing out shovelware of late, and Humble Bundle seems to be pushing out one repeat after another, so who knows?

Well, I don't know that Humble really has any incentive currently to provide a key to download a game and extras on GOG when they can just host the download and extras themselves and save their customers a step. At least with Steam there are social features and achievements and trading cards that provide an incentive to provide a Steam key in addition to the DRM-free download.

That said, GOG Galaxy could possibly shake things up when it arrives. If it's able to incorporate optional achievements, social features, and so on, then there might be more demand for GOG keys. Steam would of course still be the major player for the foreseeable future, but one can hope. :)

That's certainly another factor worth bearing in mind - I'm not sure if The Witcher 1 and 2 are going to be patched to include Galaxy support (achievements and the like), but a bundle with those two and a few other games would be conceivable for sure to play up Galaxy's release. My concern would be that it would smell somewhat of desperation.

I wonder if Lars Doucet would be game for providing Galaxy support in Defender's Quest? He's always been one of GOG's most ardent supporters in the dev community. I mention this because Defender's Quest has been released on HB before with a GOG key...

For what purpose? If it is because you'd like to see GOG games in a PWYW bundle, GOG could come up with such bundles themselves. No reason to let a competing store (Humble Bundle) to do it for them and possibly take a cut from the money.

I think GOG has already had some PWYW bundles of their own in the past.

Actually the more I think about it, the more I could envision a GOG/CD Projekt Red Humble Bundle with Witcher 1 and 2 and some other GOG games timed to coincide with and promote the release of GOG Galaxy and/or the Witcher 3. I'm guessing if they do so it would be made up of newer (indie) games rather than old classics, since that seems to be the market they're trying to expand into with Galaxy. It sounds like it could be an interesting move - build some buzz for Witcher 3 while at the same time getting people to activate games on Galaxy and check out the new service with a low-cost-of-entry.

But yeah, I do share many of your concerns regarding bundles. Humble will occasionally have something that I'm interested in and is still head-and-shoulders above the competition, but every time I've looked at Indie Gala, Groupees, Bundle Stars, and all of the other copy-cats, it's been overwhelmingly mediocre (to be generous) Greenlight/Desura games and sometimes-decent-but-old bargain bin games.

Right now I don't see a reason for GOG, but as a good promo for the upcoming Galaxy client, why not. GOG just need to make some old multiplayer classics ready for Galaxy and bundle them, something you can't play on steam or origin right now.

Not in reference to gog or anything, but it always troubles me that when someone mentions "Humble Bundle", a company that made its name providing DRM-free, charity-driven indie bundles, the first thing to pop into people's mouths is "THQ Bundle" "Origin Bundle" "WB Bundle" and "Deep Silver Bundle". Sure, those may have been their bigger bundles (in monetary terms), but they were anomalies, and not the main thing, and sure, those "Big publishers" may have just deigned to "lower themselves to us" for financial or economic problems, but the same can't be said for all the indie games it has hosted. For some, in fact, I'd say it was the HIBs that made them famous.

As far as gog goes, despite being older, I'd still say that Humble Bundle is more "famous", so it'd be nice to have some gog bundles there, or failing that, at least some PWYW bundles here!

PS: I may just be a rabid fanboy :D, but while every main bundle may have had one or two "meh" games, I've yet to see a bad Humble Indie Bundle (the last one being the 11th, from February which included Guacamelee, Dust, Giana Sisters, The Swapper, Antichamber, Monaco, Beatbuddy, and Starseed Pilgrim).

Funny to see that Eador : Masters of the Broken World is available in the HB weekly in a DRM-Free GOG version !
So, it's not a fantasy !

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

Developers offering a GOG version of their game while participating in a PWYW bundle sale, doesn't make that specific bundle a GOG one, does it now?

No, but it's maybe a first step ?!

They're not the first dev/ pub offering a GOG code and they'll probably won't be the last. But a GOG Bundle like the ShinyLoot Groupees ones is not going to happen.

Quoted in case of being proven wrong. :P

Didn't have to, I'd never edit my post to hide that statement as it's not baseless, and hence I made it very consciously. ;-)

They should do a Humble Witcher bundle, and beating the average awards a coupon(s) that can be redeemed for games on GOG's catalog.