This reminds me of how I used to buy most humble bundles until they switched to that stupid subscription model that will make you pay without knowing what games you will get for your money.

[–] Dioz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't those two separate things though? There's humble choice, which is basically what you describe, although you can just subscribe for a month if you're interested in the games and then immediately cancel your subscription. There's also a handful of regular bundles at any given time that are not linked to any subscription at all

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That is true. However, my impression was that they started putting most of the good games into the subscription bundles, which makes sense from their perspective, simply to make more people subscribe. So while people could still choose between subscription and non subscription based payment models, Humble systematically decreased the quality and thus attractiveness of the non subscription based bundles more and more, while the great disadvantage of the subscription bundles (not knowing in advance what games you will get) remained.

[–] explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’ll occasionally get bundles before a new game or dlc releases. Those are generally pretty filled with content if you don’t already own some or most of it. For example Cities Skylines had a bundle with the first game and most of the dlc before 2 launched. It’s worth it to keep an eye on the homepage to pick up deals like that

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, thanks for the info.

[–] PoopMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just use privacy and have my card paused until I see something worthwhile.

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