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    Humble Indie Bundle comes to Steam

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Pluberus, Dec 9, 2010.

  1. Pluberus

    Pluberus Notebook Evangelist

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    Wow. I need to support Indie developers more. :eek:

    This is awesome, but how is this profitable? Seems like Valve would just be losing money for hosting these on Steam, unless the Indie devs are paying them - but then the Indie devs are losing money? o_o
     
    Pluberus, Dec 9, 2010
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  2. Bearclaw

    Bearclaw Steaming

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    You don't know much people paid for it though. Think about the $5 indie packs on sale. A fair amount of people paid more than $5 for the humble indie bundle.

    A lot of people are good-willed, I wouldn't be surprised if the humble pack made a lot of money as well as donating them to charity.
     
    Bearclaw, Dec 9, 2010
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  3. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    I think they got about $10 / person on average, that includes many people who payed $1 or $0.01.

    So some people made large contributions, certainly.

    Valve still does good things for the gaming community from time to time, they very well may have handed out the steam licenses for free. I expect Valve is covering the hosting cost. Valve already earns money from these developers by offering a storefront for their games in general, so if this is something they wanted to do Valve would support that. There was a window where Valve handed out Portal for free on steam. Certainly didn't make any money off of that, but it did get them some publicity, as does this.

    Unfortunately there are problems with some of the games on steam for the mac, and possibly windows.
     
    masterchef341, Dec 9, 2010
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