>Steam-only
>not DRM-free
Seriously, what is this... The fun was cross-platformness (GNU/Linux and Mac OS X support). This is just not typical "Humble Bundle".
I wouldn't mind less humble bundles (a couple a year), but good and cross-platform and a load of them, instead of Windows & Steam-only like this.
The point of Humble Bundles is to make a bunch of cool games available for however much money you want to pay. Sometimes those games are cross-plattform, sometimes not. That’s it.
The thing is, people have certain expectations of a Humble Bundle now; that's what it means to have a strong brand.
It's fine that they are doing new things -- I don't mind the Amnesia Fortnight stuff at all, in part because it's a pretty cool concept, but probably also because they're not calling it a Humble Bundle.
But this one goes against some of the basic tenets of the Humble Bundle series; namely, the DRM-free, cross-platform nature. One of the reasons I support them is that I support choice. I want to have choice in what platform I run. I want to have choice in what machines I run my games on. DRM and single-platform games mean that I don't have that choice.
All I'm saying is that in the past, I've bought Humble Bundles and never even played a single game, just because I supported the idea so much. Now they've violated some of their core principles; they are still "pay what you want" and allow supporting charities, but they are selling games that I am morally opposed to. I'm better off just giving my money to the charities directly.
If you truly support Humble Bundle and what they do, then you would support them in this endeavor as well -- you are giving them some tip as well (and charities if that's your thing). Does anyone really think that since they are doing this with THQ they are going to simply stop supporting the indie community?
THQ made some bad decisions, and they are desperate. This is a pretty clever move for them, and one can only hope a kick in the butt to pay more attention to what gamers are looking for.
The excessive numbers of "Humble X Bundles" that have been coming out recently have been kind of killing my interest in them. When it was an occasional thing with some really good games in the bundle, and I was able to support cross-platform DRM-free game development, I would buy pretty much every one, even if I didn't play many of the games. Now that they've diluted the brand so much, I'm a lot less likely to look when they announce a new bundle.