Great Indie bundle, you name the price
- Thread starter rcorporon
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$0.01 split evenly.
ps. try entering a below $1 amount.
ps. try entering a below $1 amount.
UncannyGarlic
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
You mean like Windows users think the games are worth less because they can run a larger number and wider variety on their OS than Linux users?Arr0nax said:
Wow, looks pretty neat. I'll probably take a shot and pick this up, nice find.
Professor Danger!
Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
Penumbra kicks ass!
And so does World of Goo.
And so does World of Goo.
rcorporon said:
Definitely, I picked up the Penumbra Trilogy off Steam when they had a sale one day, then was really glad I did. Game is really interesting and creepy, especially with headphones on late at night, the atmosphere is great.
Professor Danger!
Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
Game success! That's what I love about that game. It's one of the only games that ever creeped me out.rcorporon said:
UnidentifiedFlyingTard
Vault Fossil
Why? Why do I have to be fucking broke.
Ok, now this is fucking pathetic. About 25% of the downloads of the Humble Indie Bundle have been pirated. That is low enough but it gets worse, because Child's Play is a charity for hospitalized children. It then gets even worse, because the pirates used the HIB servers to download it, making THEM pay for the pirate. As Cracked.com described it, it's like not paying a street musician, letting him finish his song, and then taking his money. Fucking pirates wonder why everyone hates them.
UnidentifiedFlyingTard
Vault Fossil
wow, that really pisses me off.
Did you know that... these games existed BEFORE Humble Indie Bundle operation ?
The pirating has nothing to do with Child's Play like you are trying to make it seem. It has been here since these games have been released, like with every single game in the world.
And your reasoning is absurd. No one "pays" for the pirate, the pirate use their own bandwith. They are just copying a product that someone has paid for.
Also, there is no minimum price to buy the game.
So you can pay 0,1$ and get the games. And you know what ? It's the initiators of the operation that decided so. They could pretty well have set a price treshold, but they chose not to.
A last point that you skipped in your dumb rant : four of the five games are going fucking OPEN SOURCE.
That means you can get them if you want without paying ANYTHING.
If anything, this has shown that whatever levels the pirating reach, an indie game can still be profitable by relying on what is basically a donation system. Every game has collected more than 200 000 dollars.
The pirating has nothing to do with Child's Play like you are trying to make it seem. It has been here since these games have been released, like with every single game in the world.
And your reasoning is absurd. No one "pays" for the pirate, the pirate use their own bandwith. They are just copying a product that someone has paid for.
Also, there is no minimum price to buy the game.
So you can pay 0,1$ and get the games. And you know what ? It's the initiators of the operation that decided so. They could pretty well have set a price treshold, but they chose not to.
A last point that you skipped in your dumb rant : four of the five games are going fucking OPEN SOURCE.
That means you can get them if you want without paying ANYTHING.
If anything, this has shown that whatever levels the pirating reach, an indie game can still be profitable by relying on what is basically a donation system. Every game has collected more than 200 000 dollars.
UncannyGarlic
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
They are using HIB's bandwidth to download it but the question is whether or not their downloads caused HIB to pay for more bandwidth than they otherwise would have, which I doubt. There's also the points above about the lack of a price threshold and the fact that a number of the games are going open source. Whenever you allow people to pay $.01 for something you should expect a fair number of people to pay that. This really isn't the product to bitch about people "pirating" when it's a pay what you want offer. I haven't bothered to get it yet but the idea of paying $.01 certainly did cross my mind and maybe I'd pay them more after playing the games.
So it appears : pirates effectively used the bandwith of the site.
It also appears David Wong from cracked likes to rant about shit. It is obvious that if you can get the games by donating one penny, the fact people used pirated links has more to do with the inability to use a payment method than anything else. Because, you see, virtually everyone on the internet has one penny to give away, and no one would bother.
Everyone with a couple of neurones in his head knows youth, kids represent a huge part of the internet population, and everyone who has been a kid surfing the internet know the frustration of the impossibility to pay for anything before you're 18 (porn sites, games or whatever).
Therefore, my best guess is most of the so-called pirates are just young people / people that hadn't access to a credit card or a paypal account.
I don't see what this has to do with anything. The fact that some of the games are going open-source is great for the community, nothing to do with getting pirates to contribute.
QFT, Wolfire shouldn't even care about the piracy involved, they probably weren't going to pay for the game.
The only "wrong" thing I see is using the HIB's bandwidth, which seems like practically stealing bandwidth from them, which represents money to them, even if it was some cents.
Again, other people don't even care and use Cracked steam to download games directly from them, stealing bandwidth again, but this time from a "big" company.