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Re:Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games by HazzyPls on Thursday May 31, 2012 @02:33PM (#4049602)
How do you guys divide up your purchase? Default, all to someone, mixture?

I dumped everything to the developers with the mentality that games are hard work - I'd like to reward that - where as charities are much more common, but I'd love to hear other's view points on this.

Re:Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games by nuclear_eclipse on Thursday May 31, 2012 @03:41PM (#4049934)
I almost always give everything to the devs, with maybe a dollar or two to HIB to cover things like hosting, dealing with Steam, etc. If I were going to donate to EFF or Childs Play, I would do that directly, not as a way to self-justify paying less of my money to the developers that put a lot of hard work into the games I'm buying. But hey, working in the gaming industry might make me biased...
Re:Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games by barik on Thursday May 31, 2012 @02:56PM (#4049712)
I usually give most of the money to charity. While I have purchased the majority of the Humble Bundles, I don't actually have time to play games. For many of the bundles, I've not even bothered to download the files. That's how I rationalize it anyway.
Re:Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games by tedunangst on Thursday May 31, 2012 @04:21PM (#4050135)
Mostly to developers, but man are those sliders annoying. It took a lot of fiddling to get all three in line. Some option which would let me under or over allocate temporarily would have been a huge help, instead of this one up, that one down, that one back up, that one down again.
Re:Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games by amandle on Thursday May 31, 2012 @04:54PM (#4050304)
you can directly edit the dollar amount in the field to the right of the slider, and it will bubble-up to the total.
Re:Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games by hoka on Thursday May 31, 2012 @02:57PM (#4049717)
I went 75% developers, 25% humble on this one; I'm usually much closer to 50% devs / 30% charity / 20% humble. My reasoning being this is an above-average bundle IMO, and I want to see the developers rewarded handsomely so that more critically-acclaimed games will come to the bundles.
Re:Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games by tl on Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:20PM (#4051190)
For HIB 4, I did the same thing you did. But this time I think they're doing a good job at selection (and I like the EFF), so I went default split.