THQ Humble Bundle launches
The first Humble Bundle launched in 2010, but this marks the first time the promotion has stepped away from its indie roots.
This is the first time the Humble Bundle has been used for a more mainstream triple-A publisher as opposed to a collection of independent titles.
The games featured in the bundle are Darksiders, Metro 2033, Red Faction Armageddon and Company of Heroes along with its two expand-alones Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor. Anyone paying over the average price will also get Saints Row The Third.
At the time of writing with the bundle being live for approximately nine hours, it has already raked in close to $2m with an average purchase of $5.72. As with previous Humble Bundles, customers can chose how to split the money between the developers, the people running the promotion and charities, this time round including Child's Play and the American Red Cross.
THQ has upcoming sequels for both Company of Heroes and Metro 2033 that are due for release in early 2013. The publisher also released Darksiders 2 to a warm critical reception earlier this year. The publisher has been dogged by financial issues over 2012 and suffered a significant net loss in its most recent quarter.
Worries have been expressed that the THQ bundle could damage the Humble Bundle's reputation for supporting lesser known indie titles. Talking to Ars Technica, Humble Bundle co-founder John Graham however stated that they do not intend to stop putting out indie bundles but wanted to see if the pay-what-you-want formula worked with triple-A content as well.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyIt's great! I've bought all of them so far.
set it all to the charity as well
Thanks for info scott_chegg.
I don't think there is any relation to what you pay if you get steam keys or not,
It says steam is required... so it has to include steam keys, no matter what you choose to pay.
Usually you only get Steam keys if you pay over $1 but this is a completely different kind of bundle so you get Steam keys no matter what price you pay.
Not for this deal, you get Steam keys for any purchase, it's Windows only and there's some DRM.
This is a big side step from what the humble bundles are usually all about as Aracos says above.
Stock up approx 40%.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/03/thqs-stock-rises-nearly-40-thanks-to-humble-bundle
For all the whining about how Humble Bundle are destroying themselves...this has been the fastest-selling yet. No cross-platform? Cry to THQ about that (although they can hardly afford anybody to port 7 games to Mac and Linux...for their combined 11% worldwide marketshare.)
I love the idea of the Humble Bundle, and got 5 and 6. I've played a grand total of maybe two hours, and can't even recall what most of the games are (and have only installed maybe three of the 12 or so that I got.) In principle, sure, cross-platform is nice, but most people are Windows-only. No DRM would be lovely, but Steam's about as light as it gets.
I threw 'em $15 and just finished downloading Saint's Row the Third (if I hadn't, I would have been on the lookout for it come the Steam Christmas sale.) I've got another half-dozen games waiting in the wings, too. I split it $2 to Humble, $13 to charity, dick to THQ (they've made their money, after all.)
Not a bad deal at all, I'd say - maybe they can rename it something other than Humble to shut the whiners up, but I have no problem with the HB guys going for more AAA content.
Gave most to charity, split the rest between the other two. May get another for gifting :)
Before I start this post please understand this is not a personal dig and I am not attacking you in anyway. This is a genuine question followed only by my personal opinion I understand people will disagree and that's fine. I'm not trying to tell you what to do at all.
Could you explain how THQ have made their money from your purchases already? Maybe I missed something but I thought that THQ allowed the deal to help them boost sales. Boosted sales then equals more money for future games.
If you mean they have made enough money already from sales then that's a strange road for your thoughts to go down and can be used to justify theft.
The Dawn of War series is one of my favourite and I really can't wait for DoW3. These are games I have really got my moneys worth out of. I really don't know where the hate (or apparent hate) for THQ has come from. Did I miss something or have publishers such as EA and Ubisoft soured public opinion against the whole industry?
Also everyone seems to be giving more to charity than HumbleBundle who brought you the deal and will do again if they stay around, therefore they need your money. Why?
I worked in the charity sector, from hands on work to admin to organisation, for about 10 years and to be honest I will never give money to charity now except a very select few whom I understand the running of in more detail.
Most charities are huge bureaucracies with lots of self serving people (there are always the special few, but it is always only a few). If I really want to help a cause now, I go and help that cause with my time. I feel giving money just helps people ease the guilt they feel for their luck and privilege. Most of the money is not used efficiently and is wasted.
got an email from humble bundle, now they also toss in Titan quest as well as the red faction armageddon expansion path to war.
If you already bought it, you can just get the keys from their website for free, if not purchased yet, pay above average to get them for free.