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$6 for Saints Row 3rd, Darksiders, Metro2033 and the Company of Heroes stuff.

Madness.  Hope their stock improves.

https://www.humblebundle.com/

Edit: Everything is Steam-Keys.

In for 1. Seems a good deal, and THQ is desperate for cash.

Crap, I already own all of them.

I own like one of these, but I don't give a shit about the fate of any big name publisher at the moment. They're all awful and treat their workers like slaves.

You can just set 0% to go to THQ then.

Awesome

Being an extra big jerk, I set charity to 100%.

Hey, me too.  The jerk store called, they're running out of us.

Maybe I'll be nice and install/play none of it.

Did the same, knowing that any amount of my money would end up in THQ HQ's pockets and literally a percentage of a penny of it would end up in the hands of the devs owedn by THQ.

In for 1$  all to Charity for all but Saint's Row 3. Did that 10 times. Now I have some Christmas gifts as well.

I've been waiting to get Saints Row 3 super cheap so I jumped in on this.  Company of Heroes is a nice bonus.

Hang on, how is setting charity to 100% the dark side choice now?

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/humble-thq-bundle-threatens-to-ruin-the-brands-reputation/

I like how having a bundle of AAA games instead of the usual "here's like 2-3 good indie games and like 5-6 that are shit" bundle is somehow a controversy.

New ars tech game dude is a douche.  Fucking hate him.

Do yourself a favor and don't look at this Twitter (https://twitter.com/KyleOrl) then.  :uhrr:

Steam is DRM now?  :uhrr:

It always was.

I never thought of it in that regard. I guess it is. Which makes DRM in Steam even more silly.  :why_so_serious:

HAH. The new Ars Technica guy is Kyle Orland. Let me tell you a story about Kyle Orland. A year into starting f13 (so end of 2004ish), I ran into a young, way too hyper sycophant in a Gamestop named Kyle Orland. I was in there picking up some games and they asked me if I needed to preorder something or rather and I told them I was getting a press copy. This obnoxious white kid stopped me on the way out and asked what I did. I didn't really talk about f13 publicly - and I still don't - but he was pretty persistent and wanted to tell me all about his blog or site or whatever Gaming Ombudsman (archives here - http://kyleorland.com/thegamebeat/?cat=423). All I know is he came off as creepy enough as I wrote him off as being a low/mid-level gaming writer for the rest of his life.

tl;dr: I predicted his future and he's still too obnoxious to achieve actual success. Calling him a douche is completely within reason.

Steam does not and has never required DRM.  That is only included at the request of third parties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_%28software%29

Steam is a form of DRM but certainly not the worst.

I almost think of it as DRM light if that's the case. It has no online requirements other than the actual downloads, which is tied to the digital delivery.

I guess Ars folks stick together:

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/the-humble-thq-bundle-loses-indie-games-adds-drm-and-is-a-step-backward-for

The money quote:


 :oh_i_see:

How are you guys paying for this? Does everyone but me actually still maintain a paypal account with money in it?  :ye_gods:

Hi, don't read Penny Arcade report.

Or any of PA's spinoff stuff really. It's all bad.

e: especially extra credits, which is done by a "game design consultant" who was too douchey to remain employed at THE ESCAPIST of all places.

Amazon payments.  Just uses my credit card.

Ditto.  Very convenient.

For a $1 with the chance to "stick it to the MAN!!11!!" sure, why not?

Well yeah, PAR is terrible; it's Ben Kuchera with no editor.

As for the rest of PA, I stopped reading it years ago, though I still patronize their forums.

Is anyone paying attn. to the amount of money they've generated with this thing?  I mean, it's nothing to scoff at.  They went past 2.3m this morning and have sold .5m bundles.  In a day.  Anyone here think those 5 games would've generated 2m in revenue in 24hrs on their own? :awesome_for_real:

Granted, they've got to pay for the bandwidth but I'd like to see some numbers on this model after the write-downs for the charities.

I just want everyone to be friends... and Dawn of War 3 with as many voice actors as possible.

Good bundle, imo, since from now on people who don't find indie games attractive will still take a glance whenever they hear a new bundle is up on sale.

NO GETS THQ BAD, STOP LOOKING ON THE GOOD SIDE, DRM

Kotaku was quick to join in with quality headlines.

http://i.imgur.com/7zCtS.png (http://i.imgur.com/7zCtS.png)

I don't see how this bundle is bad. At all. Charity, good games. Throw all at charity, buy.

I now know that THQ is broke and something about Steam DRM or...I dunno. It's bad man. Like real bad.

As DRM goes, Steam is fantastic. It's fairly noninvasive, unless your name is sinji, and doesn't by itself prevent me from installing the game on as many computers as I can login with. AND SALES.

It DOES seem a trifle... not indie seeing as how the ACTUAL DEVELOPERS of the games aren't being given a slice unless THQ decides to give it to them. So in that sense I can see where some panties might twitch if not positively bunch. Since you don't have to give THQ a red cent, you give money to charity AND you give money to the Humble Bundle people, which means there could be more good bundles in the future. It's not like EA or Blacktivision got in on the deal. THQ may actually have less money than Notch at the moment.  :oh_i_see:

Games journalists should go searching out some real stories to get outraged about.

Steam provides a form of DRM.  It is not drm in and of itself.  There are games on Steam which can be run without even opening Steam.

Yeah, I always just thought of it as a content delivery service, even though it does do DRM-y stuff if the developer/publisher wants it to.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say it does DRM just right. I've yet to actually be hindered in playing a game due to steam's DRM, even when my internet connection suddenly fell off the face of the earth for a week, whereas other forms of DRM just didn't want to let me play at all.

The Penny Arcade empire is as a whole total garbage.

any of these games actually worth 6 bucks?

SR3 is easily worth $6 all by itself, IMO. CoH is a classic in the RTS genre. The sequels weren't quite as well received though still very solid. Darksiders was okay, and it's a console port so it plays better if you have an Xbox 360 controller for your PC. Haven't played Metro 2033 or RF: Armageddon. I've heard Metro was decent and Armageddon mediocre.

Can you actually get the bundle for 6 bucks? I tried for a friend yesterday and it would not let you go below $13.37 even though the average was $5.

I just tried it right now; clicked on custom amount and put in $6. It took me to the paypal screen with no problem. I didn't actually buy it because I own most of it already, but it wasn't giving me any errors.

I got the bundle for 5$ no problem (No Saints Row cause I already have it, and it's great). Metro 2033 is worth 5$ alone, awesome underrated game. Developed by Russians/Ukrainans from a Russian novel (like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. interestingly enough). This humble bundle is stellar.

If you've never played the CoH series you should be all over this bundle.  I'd pay $5 just for the opening mission in the 1st game. 

They've just added "Titan Quest" and a DLC for "Red Faction" to the bundle.   :grin:

edit: aaaand, there goes Steam 

Steam's fine. Titan Quest seems an odd add, it's ancient at this point. Maybe they want to sell the expansion.

The Red Faction DLC is a nice touch.  Still playing through Saints Row myself.

Already had Titan Quest though.

They added Warhammer 40k Dawn of War too, if you pay more than the average.

I got a key for: Darksiders, Red Faction: Armageddon, Metro 2033, Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, and Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor


I don't remember doing anything at all for them though.

Sadly you will still need to buy the expansions.

Just don't get Soulstorm. It's shit.

It's not up to the high standards that Dark Crusade set, certainly, but I got a decent amount of enjoyment out of it. Nothing you'd want to pay more than maybe $5 for, though, especially now.

Yeah, I certainly had a ton of fun with the single player campaign (I wish more RTSes had this kind of "Total War" broader strategic map aspect, rather than the Starcraft style "cinematic/mission" format).  I'd put it about on par with Dark Crusade in that regard (though I could nitpick for a page or so about the differences, they're pretty comparable IMO).  Never touched multiplayer, so I can't comment there, but I hear there were some serious balance issues with inferno pistols and things.  But for single player, it's WAY better than the original DoW.  And for multiplayer, I prefer DoW2 anyway.

Though as far as I can recall, you can get Dark Crusade or Soulstorm without the original, if you're just looking for single player.  You just can't play any races other than the xpac ones in multiplayer if you don't have the original game.

Who doesn't like Dawn of War?
I really love how they emphasize on good counters instead of APM playstyle.
Then they went DoW 2 and it's all shit from there.

I really wish they'd get the Relic team to do a new/updated Homeworld.  Their financial issues would be over then :P

I really like the first DoW, but I am so depressingly terrible at it that the AI can beat me on the easiest difficulty.

fucking relic online???   THQ deserves to die for this shit.

You may get your wish...

Just looked at the site and there seems to be a different set of games

Dungeon Defenders

Legend of Grimrock

Snapshot

The Binding of Isaac

Closure Indie Game: The Movie

Shank 2*

So 5 Indie games and a movie.

THQ Bundle is on Steam for $25. It has Darksiders 1 and 2 in it, the WH40K games, and a bunch of other games I had never played. It says the retail price for all of it was close to $200 so you save a ridiculous $175. I figure Darksiders 2 is worth the $25 all by itself since it costs more than that all by itself.

9 + movie, now, they just added some more.
(Cave Story +, Offspring Fling, and The Basement Collection, also Closure is a game that's not related to the Indie Game movie as far as I know)

The THQ humble bundle offer is over.