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For over a decade now, Humble Bundle has provided gamers with bundles of heavily discounted games, while also donating millions of dollars to charity. Traditionally, each Humble Bundle would let you buy in at various tiers, with sliders at the bottom to let you decide how much money goes to Humble Bundle itself, the charity, and the game publishers. You even had the option of giving all your money to one of the three entities, while giving nothing to the others.

Over the weekend, however, Humble Bundle announced that in May they would be testing a new update to the way adjusting donations work. Under the new system, you can toggle between two options: default donation, or extra to charity. The default option will give 85% to publishers, 10% to Humble Bundle, and 5% to charity. The other option gives 80% to publishers, 5% to Humble Bundle and 15% to charity. As of now, it does not appear there are any other customization options that will be available.

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[Mythical]

I mean you can always donate to charity outside of this, but I don't like this step the "new" Humble Bundle is taking at all

 

[BeastMode6]

Humble has been dead for a while now. Their bundles are nowhere near as good as they used to be.

 

[Deleted User]

How about giving, oh I dunno, 30% to shitty customer-raping publishers, 10% to Humble, and 60% to whatever charity (or -ies) they're partnered with?
The charities need the cash more than the rapists do.

most charities aren't any better than greedy publishers
most of the money doesn't even go for the cause the charities are for

 

[Necron]

Meh, don't really care, I'm there for cheap games. Can always directly donate to a charity if I want to.

It's not like there are many cheap games these days anyway. It's full of lame software and sometimes useful books.

 

[guisadop]

hue, what a joke. and the quality of the bundles keeps decreasing year after year.

though it's obviously because their business model apparently isn't stable enough. they look like they're bleeding money

 

[Xzi]

Dick move, but not entirely unexpected of IGN.

 

[eriol33]

I don't care about charity, i just want to buy cheap games and bundles

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hue, what a joke. and the quality of the bundles keeps decreasing year after year.

though it's obviously because their business model apparently isn't stable enough. they look like they're bleeding money

Actually the books bundles are quite good. I bought a lot of data science books from.them

 

[DKB]

I hate this storefront. They always have dumb shit on sale that nobody wants. Now, I really don't want to use them.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

I don't recall any other online store even give away a single penny to Charities.... when was last time companies like Blizzard, STEAM, Origin, GOG or even EGS give charities? at least Humble give away 15%. don't be dickhead and complain on every thing.

Many do and just don't publicize it because it's usually a tax deductible expense.

 

[MikaDubbz]

How about giving, oh I dunno, 30% to shitty customer-raping publishers, 10% to Humble, and 60% to whatever charity (or -ies) they're partnered with?
The charities need the cash more than the rapists do.

Customer raping? Jesus Christ, tone back the hyperbole just a little bit.

 

[Hells Malice]

I'm impressed it took IGN this long to fully ruin Humble Bundle tbh

 

[CeeDee]

I'm sure this won't matter a second to the people who're only in it for the sake of cheap game bundles...

But in terms of supporting charity, this completely sucks. 10% as the default? 15% maximum? That's fucking nothing!

 

[Localhorst86]

Took them longer than I anticipated after the ign takeover. I haven't bought any bundles ever since their bundles became "tiered" beyond the beat-the-average pricing, though.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

I am nobody to dictate rules on how anyone should live, or run their business. But this change came in a bad time. At least where I live, donations dropped a lot because covid. Many extremely important institutions are struggling more now than ever before.

 

[gudenau]

I knew this was coming when In Game Name took them over. Only a matter of time until money is more important than the goal.

 

[Ryab]

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For over a decade now, Humble Bundle has provided gamers with bundles of heavily discounted games, while also donating millions of dollars to charity. Traditionally, each Humble Bundle would let you buy in at various tiers, with sliders at the bottom to let you decide how much money goes to Humble Bundle itself, the charity, and the game publishers. You even had the option of giving all your money to one of the three entities, while giving nothing to the others.

Over the weekend, however, Humble Bundle announced that in May they would be testing a new update to the way adjusting donations work. Under the new system, you can toggle between two options: default donation, or extra to charity. The default option will give 85% to publishers, 10% to Humble Bundle, and 5% to charity. The other option gives 80% to publishers, 5% to Humble Bundle and 15% to charity. As of now, it does not appear there are any other customization options that will be available.

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And just like that I am no longer buying from them.

 

[Deleted member 546149]

How about giving, oh I dunno, 30% to shitty customer-raping publishers, 10% to Humble, and 60% to whatever charity (or -ies) they're partnered with?
The charities need the cash more than the rapists do.

It's honestly better then nothing

 

[gudenau]

Oh hey, this is interesting. They removed the blog post about the acquisition.

 

[Viri]

I always made sure to give all the money to charity. lol

 

[xdarkx]

Guessing IGN realized Humble Bundle isn't making them any money, so now they decided to lower the money going to charity so more money will go to the publisher. In other words, with this new change, this would mean less cost for Humble Bundle to cover.