So apparently Humble Bundle is changing their monthly subscription service away from the current version where you buy a lootbox of games except for one or two headliners that you may or may not want. And the gaming community is in uproar.
What's the deal?
Currently, there's anywhere from one to three headliners in a bundle that you base your purchase off of. Don't like Spyro, Crash, and CoD WW2? Then just skip the month. Sure, there's going to be other games that will be revealed at the first Friday of the following month but are you really going to buy a $12 bundle for some unnamed games that may or may not be something you want? On a similar vein, Humble Bundle has always taken the road of giving benefits to new subscribers or subscribers who have cancelled their subscription to draw them back in. $3 off the next monthly bundle? Oh fuck you, current subscribers! You don't get anything!
It's been said before and complained about on Reddit of how the promotions really only benefit new subscribers or returning subscribers and not loyal subscribers. Then Humble came along and gave us Humble Bundle Classic.
Loyal subscribers keep their $12 a month price and gets an extra game compared to the new tiers which only give a portion.
Yet to hear the internet complain about it as if Humble was putting a gun to their head. Their FAQ states that the Humble Monthly Bundle is a subscription service and yet they're giving their customers the option to pause their subscription on months they don't like instead of enforcing the subscription from the very beginning like most subscription services do. Second, they'll even allow current subscribers to pause months they don't like and keep the Classic price.
I think that's incredibly fucking generous of them.
I don't like to think of this as a "Fuck you, I've got mine" situation but I fully support Humble if they decide to limit the amount of subscription pauses a user could get per year to keep the Classic price. These users who pause the monthly subscription constantly are treating this more as a regular Humble Bundle that comes around once a month instead of a monthly subscription.
Ultimately, the Humble Monthly is still an extremely good deal even at $20. Consider just the headliners for this month, they're all fairly new and pretty much have never gone below $5. Yet we're getting them for $4 each at this point without considering the other games in the bundle that will be revealed in the coming weeks.
TL;DR: I'm complaining about the complainers regarding the new Humble Monthly Bundle change.
What's the deal?
Currently, there's anywhere from one to three headliners in a bundle that you base your purchase off of. Don't like Spyro, Crash, and CoD WW2? Then just skip the month. Sure, there's going to be other games that will be revealed at the first Friday of the following month but are you really going to buy a $12 bundle for some unnamed games that may or may not be something you want? On a similar vein, Humble Bundle has always taken the road of giving benefits to new subscribers or subscribers who have cancelled their subscription to draw them back in. $3 off the next monthly bundle? Oh fuck you, current subscribers! You don't get anything!
It's been said before and complained about on Reddit of how the promotions really only benefit new subscribers or returning subscribers and not loyal subscribers. Then Humble came along and gave us Humble Bundle Classic.
Loyal subscribers keep their $12 a month price and gets an extra game compared to the new tiers which only give a portion.
Yet to hear the internet complain about it as if Humble was putting a gun to their head. Their FAQ states that the Humble Monthly Bundle is a subscription service and yet they're giving their customers the option to pause their subscription on months they don't like instead of enforcing the subscription from the very beginning like most subscription services do. Second, they'll even allow current subscribers to pause months they don't like and keep the Classic price.
I think that's incredibly fucking generous of them.
I don't like to think of this as a "Fuck you, I've got mine" situation but I fully support Humble if they decide to limit the amount of subscription pauses a user could get per year to keep the Classic price. These users who pause the monthly subscription constantly are treating this more as a regular Humble Bundle that comes around once a month instead of a monthly subscription.
Ultimately, the Humble Monthly is still an extremely good deal even at $20. Consider just the headliners for this month, they're all fairly new and pretty much have never gone below $5. Yet we're getting them for $4 each at this point without considering the other games in the bundle that will be revealed in the coming weeks.
TL;DR: I'm complaining about the complainers regarding the new Humble Monthly Bundle change.
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