The Humble THQ Bundle

[Ethevion]

Purchased.

 

[jamesaa]

Purchased a couple of hours ago, bit annoyed that I had bought Metro 2033 only few days ago, but meh.

Haven't got round to playing Saints Row 2 after getting it from PSN+ but figured $6 for a handful of games + Saints Row 3 was a bargain.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Am I the only one who thinks "Pay what you want" should have an asterisk beside it that says " *as long as it's over a dollar"

Anyways, Ima pass on this bundle. Seems like a way to try and get money when you're down and out, last resort type thing. Which isn't fair, no other gaming company did this. I say good riddance. I wasn't a big fan of THQ at all, never have been never will be. I hope everyone chooses Charity for this so THQ will say "fuck"

 

[Sicklyboy]

Am I the only one who thinks "Pay what you want" should have an asterisk beside it that says " *as long as it's over a dollar"

Anyways, Ima pass on this bundle. Seems like a way to try and get money when you're down and out, last resort type thing. Which isn't fair, no other gaming company did this. I say good riddance. I wasn't a big fan of THQ at all, never have been never will be. I hope everyone chooses Charity for this so THQ will say "fuck"

You need to pay over a dollar to get games. Anything, over a penny, will get you the ost pack. And yeah, maybe they're doing it as a last resort. If it keeps Em going a little longer, good for them?

A group tries to get something good out there for people and everyone still has to find a way to bitch about it.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

You need to pay over a dollar to get games. Anything, over a penny, will get you the ost pack. And yeah, maybe they're doing it as a last resort. If it keeps Em going a little longer, good for them?

A group tries to get something good out there for people and everyone still has to find a way to bitch about it.

Except this is mainly to try and get some last bit of money before they close up shop, they're not really doing it for charity.

And forcing the people to pay over a dollar in order to get the games goes against the "pay what you want". I mean anybody who wants the soundtracks, would easily just download them for free off the net.

 

[omgpwn666]

Easily bought the Bundle for my brother and I. It's so much cheaper than buying two copies of each of these games on Steam. =P

 

[FAST6191]

Given a dollar is a fraction of a hour for most countries with a minimum wage or an effective minimum wage I am not sure it quite rates.

As for last ditch attempt.... because no company has ever thought to sell off some IP, shares or property or seek new investment in an attempt to stay afloat before?
Edit- even if it is final push before closing up shop would that not mean staff get paid, debts get settled and other such good things?

 

[jamesaa]

Except this is mainly to try and get some last bit of money before they close up shop, they're not really doing it for charity.

And forcing the people to pay over a dollar in order to get the games goes against the "pay what you want". I mean anybody who wants the soundtracks, would easily just download them for free off the net.

The paying over a dollar thing was introduced last year as people were abusing the bundles to get premium Steam accounts at 1c each for that coal hunt thing, paying over a dollar gave access to the Steam keys for any bundle since then, under a dollar you would just get the DRM-free variants. It's just that in the case of this bundle it is only Steam keys available.

Plus you can always just give the entire $1 to charity only using the sliders.

 

[Joe88]

1.6 2 million USD and counting

 

[Hells Malice]

Am I the only one who thinks "Pay what you want" should have an asterisk beside it that says " *as long as it's over a dollar"

Anyways, Ima pass on this bundle. Seems like a way to try and get money when you're down and out, last resort type thing. Which isn't fair, no other gaming company did this. I say good riddance. I wasn't a big fan of THQ at all, never have been never will be. I hope everyone chooses Charity for this so THQ will say "fuck"

I'm glad they finally put at least a bit of a cap on cheap fucks exploiting these bundles when they could just pirate the fucking game and stop pretending they're good human beings for "purchasing" these games for a good cause...for less than a dollar.
Anyone actually complaining or worrying there's a $1 minimum to get the games is a terrible person, sorry.

 

[Felipe_9595]

Why are people bitching about getting 5 games that alone should cost over 40$ for 1 $???? I mean, really.

 

[Rydian]

Am I the only one who thinks "Pay what you want" should have an asterisk beside it that says " *as long as it's over a dollar"

Hasn't it always been at least a dollar if you want steam keys? In the previous bundles, paying less than $1 would give you access to the direct downloads, but Steam would not generate keys for you. Steam is the only option this time, which means that the $1 is mandatory to get the games.

They're giving away six soundtracks for less than $1 just so people who do that at least get something, since Steam won't give them the keys.

And come on dude. Are you honestly bitching that you need to pay a dollar for five retail games? Seriously? I'm the top poster on gbatemp, and even I'm happy to beat the average for every bundle I get.

And forcing the people to pay over a dollar in order to get the games goes against the "pay what you want".

Hasn't the humble bundle always held off at least one game unless you beat the average? So you could say it's ALWAYS been like this, you always need to pay a minimum amount to get everything.

I don't have an opinion on what THQ does, but if you're going to sit here and bitch about needing to pay at least one US dollar for five games, that's just pathetic.

 

[Sicklyboy]

Except this is mainly to try and get some last bit of money before they close up shop, they're not really doing it for charity.

And forcing the people to pay over a dollar in order to get the games goes against the "pay what you want". I mean anybody who wants the soundtracks, would easily just download them for free off the net.

Not doing it for charity - THQ holds no role in the charity aspect except for the fact that their games are the driving force behind this current bundle. Aside from that, THQ plays no part in current, past, or future charity aspects. The charity portion is all handled by Humble Bundle. If you really, REALLY want to look at it as a cash grab before they close up shop, then I expect you to look down upon every single business that you ever see for the rest of your life that is down on their luck and has to hold a "Going Out Of Business Sale" for a few weeks before they lock their doors for the last time; or should they just give it all away because "Fuck it we're going out of business"? (Which is about as sound an argument as "Well I may as well go on a mass murder spree before I off myself because fuck life")

"easily just download them for free off the net." which is illegal. The point of the Humble Bundle isn't just "let's let people be cheap-asses who can pay as little as they possibly can". You pay what you personally think it's worth, and you give however much you want to charity (protip - just don't give any to THQ if you don't like them), Humble Bundle, and the devs. It's also a nice opportunity for people who are a little less fortunate than some of us, monetarily, to still have access to these nice things we have at a price that isn't gonna put them on the streets.

Fuck it, after this, I'm writing them an email specifically encouraging them to do more bundles like this in the future, and to ignore any naysayers and flak they get from this one.

And Rydian, I may not always agree with every thing you say/how you say it, but damn, you hit it right on the head with that one.

Edit - just gonna throw out there that another good aspect of the Humble Bundle is it gives people a nice look at small-time indie devs, chances are if they have one game that you can get a Humble Steam Key for, they have more games (for full price) on Steam. In other terms - advertising, word of mouth, low-risk testing.

 

[Dark]

Would buy but all these games seem so mediocre...

 

[nukeboy95]

I got it at 5.72, the price is raising fast.

 

[Sicklyboy]

Just sent them a nice "ignore the haters and do more bundles like this" email, except much better worded.

 

[Qtis]

Would buy but all these games seem so mediocre...

There are quite a few great games in the bundle. If you don't like them, that's your opinion, but saying they're mediocre is just wrong. Saints Row: The Third is easily comparable to games like GTA (maybe not so polished, but still) and Darksiders is one of the best hack'n'slash games released during the last few years. Company of Heroes has 93 on metacritic. Hell, all the games are on the green side with Red Faction: Armageddon being the only one under 75. Now lets compare the games to numbers for other publishers and you'll notice that this is one hell of a pack for the low amount of under $6. The combined costs of all the games and soundtracks could easily be over 10x that.

@plasma dragon007 & Rydian: Gotta agree with you guys. This is one hell of a bundle and regardless of people's opinion about THQ, they cannot say that THQ doesn't deserve a kudos for doing a deal like this. It wouldn't be possible if THQ didn't allow it with the humble bundle.

ps. Good Guy Jason Rubin (President of THQ) donated $1050
pps. May buy this for my brother. He'd enjoy Darksiders, especially since he still hasn't played it :3

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Good lord are we really debating over an amazing bundle that you can pay what you want for? And all that money regardless goes to charity?

It's threads like these that make me wonder why I still go here.

 

[Lanlan]

Yes, god damn THQ for giving us seven high-profile games for such a dirt-cheap price! Money grubbing pieces of shit!

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Also why does everyone hate THQ all of the sudden?

Compared to the other big third party publishers (I'm talking Activision, Ubisoft, THQ, and EA as the Fab Four here), they make pretty good games. I don't remember any horrific stories about them and really I'd love them to survive to continue with some quality games. South Park: Stick of Truth really deserves a release.

Although GBAtemp is full of pretentious video game hipsters who believe supporting the corporations who fuel their hobbies is just so dumb.