I used to work for a company that HP contracted us as reps to stand around best buys and office depots and such and sell HP. I remember sometime after the 02 inks went away reliability really took a dump. But 02, while more reliable in my experience, took 5 different color cartridges. Pricey (though I’d get free ink sometimes from the job).
Toward the end of my time there the printers were just hot garbage, and I went through two HP laptops in a short time (got a big discount on number 2).
The developers are taking a big revenue reduction to support a charity not Humble. If this is the recent bundle than what Jagex is selling normally costs more than $190. The default should favor the charity not Humble. Humble is just mooching of Jagex’s goodwill.
Don’t they they have a choice in the matter and the customer also has a choice in the matter? I would also like to point out customers like me that would never buy most of the games that I do from humble bundle if it weren’t for the charity aspect. That’s not a loss in cut, that’s pure profit for everyone involved (besides me and my throne of unplayed games)
The whole thread is full of people who don’t HumbleBundle or donate to charity having strong opinions about both. They think that because the site mentions charity that they should be given free stuff for tossing $10 to a charity and that humblebundle must be greedy for being the only business that donates any of your purchase to charity.
Our mission is to support charity while providing awesome content to customers at great prices.
Their first and thus apparently most important reason for doing all this is “to support charity”.
If we go by the screenshot alone, it’s $12 of which only $0.60 goes to a charity. Which is 5%. Compared to $3.60 or 30% for Humble. I’m not gonna include the developer’s fee because the developer is not the one claiming they’re doing it for charity - they’re obviously doing it for the money first and foremost.
Sure, more than nothing, but taking 30% is shady enough, IMO.
It seems steam also takes 30% but doesn’t give a choice to reallocate more to the charity or humble. Seems really weird to me to be upset with a company that, at it’s worst, takes the same cut as the industry leader
It’s all about the intent. Steam is there to sell you games. Humble is there to support charities while giving you cheap stuff. In their description the charities are the first thing that gets mentioned. And then they give them 5% of the money.
What’s the opposite of Rose tinted glasses? How much do you want them to take? Would it be good if they didn’t set the default high enough to stay in business and there was no charitable option? What do you want them to do? I really can’t understand how you’re so negative on this and I’m self described cynical pessimist myself
What I’d want? For them to give at least half, not measly 5%. Come on, they’re bragging about giving to charity while really not giving them 95% of their income. Like, at this point I’d rather donate the $12 to the charity myself than support yet another parasite on the donation system.
I donate to various things regularly (mostly stuff local for my country, but some international as well from time to time), be it charity or open source projects, and I hate when everyone takes a cut out of this. But at least most of them have the decency to send most of the money further, not only 5%.
I’m negative because I don’t see anything positive on a charity gaining $0.60 when $12 was given to the one who collects the money.
I had an Ubisoft account. I had the original Guildwars. Something screwed up, and they just deleted the game from my account.
I then had someone hack my account and try to steal it. The Ubisoft help desk actually got that sorted. Probably because I was online when it happened and instantly saw the email notification that the hackers changed my email.
Anyway. I changed my password to some super long phrase with numbers and capital letters and such, then never logged in again.
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