Enchantermon on 5/5/2010 at 00:02
Also, if you take advantage of this deal, make sure you install Penumbra ASAP; you get a code at the end of the installation that gives you 75% off of the Penumbra Collection if you buy it from Frictional Games before the Humble Indie Bundle promotion is over.
Shadowcat on 5/5/2010 at 08:49
Thank you for the heads-up, Enchantermon! I wasn't planning to download Overture from this bundle right away, but I might just go an extra $5 for a DRM-free set of all three games from Frictional :)
EvaUnit02 on 5/5/2010 at 09:20
There, now one can buy the Penumbra trilogy for cheap without having to invest in cliched indie psychics puzzle games, a low tech prototype of the vapourware Overgrowth, nor donate to a scatterbrained charity.
"LET'S PUT CONSOLES INTO HOSPITAL PAEDIATRIC WINGS, HURRRR HURRRR." What kind of two bit charity has a goal such as that? Sounds like the type of idea that would be hatched up by upper-middle-class white people who're out of touch with reality. If you don't want to fund something with no short-term pay-off like cancer research, nor the likes of international aid which doesn't affect your community, then fine. There's shelters of various kinds (eg for victims of domestic abuse), community projects that benefit the less well off, etc.
EDIT:- Now this (
http://www.eff.org/about) EFF, that sounds like an organisation of real value to the community. Fuck Child's Play. If I didn't already own the games that I was interested in from this bundle, I'd happily spend $10 or so.
Matthew on 5/5/2010 at 10:35
Here's an idea: fuck you instead.
Shadowcat on 5/5/2010 at 11:48
EvaUnit02: You're a cock.
june gloom on 5/5/2010 at 13:32
Clearly Eva's never spent time in the hospital as a kid.
doctorfrog on 5/5/2010 at 15:00
You have the opportunity to donate any percentage of your donation wherever you like. I paid $10 and went halfsies, but I could have just as easily put it all evenly between the developers and stymied the charities.
I really don't know how helpful Child's Play actually is and I at least partially share some of the Eva's concern about whether it's just a 'feel-good' organization... but damn, that sure is a stupid way to show that concern.
The EFF, OTOH, is definitely an organization that I share some values with.
Avalon on 5/5/2010 at 15:57
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Clearly Eva's never spent time in the hospital as a kid.
Exactly. Quality of life in the hospital is just as important as the cure for whatever put you there - any medical doctor will tell you that a depressed, unhappy person has chances of complication or death magnitudes higher than one in high spirits. The brain is a powerful thing. Especially for kids, who have very limited understanding of what's going on, so the whole thing is absolutely terrifying to begin with.
dj_ivocha on 5/5/2010 at 18:01
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
There, now one can buy the Penumbra trilogy for cheap without having to invest in cliched indie psychics puzzle games
Why did you have to give out the code? Clearly it wasn't intended to be used by cheapskates who couldn't even "buy" the bundle for $1...
Or are you like some guy on Slashdot who said:
Quote:
I didn't pay more than $.01 because it was a video game sale put on by a video game company. It wasn't a donation, it wasn't a charity. "pay what you want" is like going to a store and seeing hundreds of copies of the same thing for sale, but with all different prices. Anyone who picks something besides the cheapest one is a sucker.
I'd already *cough* found *cough* a full version of WoG some time ago, tested it for 2 minutes and liked it quite a bit, but never got around to playing it. But after seeing it in this bundle and just watching the beautiful trailer (and listening to the great music) of Aquaria on YouTube, I decided that just those two games were worth $20 for me. I'd have paid a bit more, but since I'm a poor student, that's the most I could afford.
