The Humble Down Under Bundle is a very good deal for Linux gamers

Quoting: chancho_zombieSatellite Reign is an excellent game, I had so much fun with it.

if i run that on my 1060 i have the most garbage performance i ever saw on any of my computers.

I bought this as the $12 tier.

I'd take humble over gog any day. Humble give me both steam key, and drm free builds of a lot of games, while gog only give drm-free. The only reason I keep gog around is that they have a good selection of good old games. For new games, humble is a lot better.

The best way to make sure they keep supporting Linux gamers is to buy the bundles that have Linux games, until or if they actually do something to remove that support of course. If we show that we financially support them no matter who owns the company hopefully they'll keep supporting us with new bundles of Linux games.

If the Linux support goes away I'll join the rest of you with the flaming torches & pitchforks, but not before that happens.

Quoting: chancho_zombiethe title they choose for the bundle is a little confusing. I don't understand people who live in the northern hemisphere just say that people in the south live down under?

Well, actually literally relatively... they do, don't they? Like the northern guys live down under for the southern people. If you dig long enough (through melted metal or whatever is there), you'd arrive at the feet ot people from down under. (And I've never understood the term any other than jokingly.)


Last edited by Eike on 18 October 2017 at 7:02 am UTC

I'll add to the voices saying you shouldn't punish Humbe Bundle for things they haven't done. They did a lot for Linux gaming even before Steam for Linux was a thing (back when I was dual booting for gaming), they still have got good offers for us and as long as this doesn't change, we shouldn't try to hurt them.

Quoting: chancho_zombiethe title they choose for the bundle is a little confusing. I don't understand people who live in the northern hemisphere just say that people in the south live down under?

It's all to do with the maps & where they were invented, North is always at the top of the page & South is always at the bottom.

The funny thing about Humble is that they used to be the good ones until DRM AND now IGN happened. Also, GOG used to be not to be seen in such a good light because they just do Linux as a side business, not because they're fully in line with it and want to make it grow. Now they're like the saints, funny, isn't it?

Actually none of the stores are saints, they all want to earn money. Some do it a little more Linux friendly, some don't. The idea of donating is of course nice within the humble store.

But anyway, what's the point of thinking about this too much? Having DRM free games does not make sence at all of the games have closed source, I may install closed source for a driver etc.....


Anyway, I guess the bundle is pretty nice.

Personally, I don't plan to change my buying habits.

Until Humble actively work against developers putting up Linux versions, if I see them have a good deal I will talk about it here and possibly buy it. After all, my money isn't unlimited like everyone else I have to be careful with money. I don't like IGN, but they own a service as I use and until they do something shitty with it I will continue to use it.

I understand why people don't like IGN though, as I have my own reasons too and since Humble specifically have a feature to allow you to give them no tip, it's perfectly fair for people to use it. They put that tool up themselves. I don't bother with it though, I tend to leave it at the defaults.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: chancho_zombiethe title they choose for the bundle is a little confusing. I don't understand people who live in the northern hemisphere just say that people in the south live down under?

It's because of a land down under, where women glow and men plunder.

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.


hehehe love that song. :D

Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: chancho_zombiethe title they choose for the bundle is a little confusing. I don't understand people who live in the northern hemisphere just say that people in the south live down under?

It's because of a land down under, where women glow and men plunder.

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.


hehehe love that song. :D

/me smiles and gives you a vegemite sandwich