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PayPalHumble Choice (formerly Humble Monthly) has a new set of games up for January and this time there's 12 to pick from.
Each month, Humble put out a selection of games and depending on what tier of Choice you're on, you get to pick between 3-9 games to keep. The selection for January isn't great for Linux supported titles, but you may get on well if you make use of Steam Play Proton. Here's what you can pick from for January's Humble Choice:
- Graveyard Keeper - Linux supported
- Two Point Hospital - Linux supported
- Unrailed! - Has a Linux Beta
- Them's Fightin' Herds - coming to Linux.
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- Dirt Rally 2.0 + 3 DLC
- Street Fighter 5
- Bad North: Jotunn Edition
- Trailmakers
- Whispers of a Machine
- Mages of Mystralia
- GRIP: Combat Racing + Artifex DLC
On top of that you also get a Humble Store discount between 10-20%, access to all you can eat DRM-free titles in the Humble Trove (there's a lot of games there) and a few original games Humble publish each month with it.
If you're interested, you can see more about it here.
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I skipped last months since there was nothing for me... I'm thinking I may pause again this month too. Looking at isthereanydeal.com I'm basically paying normal sale prices for the couple of games I'd actually want and even though I get a bunch of games I could sale/trade I've never found a good way to sale/trade steam keys that isn't just a massive time sink and not worth it in the long run.
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I'll probably pick this month up since I don't have most of the key titles in the lineup. But man was that first month a downer, I can't imagine too many people out there didn't have most of the interesting games from that lineup already.
I paused last month as I imagine many people did to hold on to their pricing, but save this month, I can't see me hanging around too long before actually-cancelling and never looking at HumbleChoice again. I wish they'd just stuck with the old format.
I paused last month as I imagine many people did to hold on to their pricing, but save this month, I can't see me hanging around too long before actually-cancelling and never looking at HumbleChoice again. I wish they'd just stuck with the old format.
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Just in case anyone is interested, here's the ProtonDB ratings of the Windows-only titles:
Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Gold
Dirt Rally 2.0 + 3 DLC - Gold
Street Fighter 5 - Borked (such irony, considering it was meant to be native...)
Bad North: Jotunn Edition - Platinum
Trailmakers - Gold
Whispers of a Machine - Platinum
Mages of Mystralia - Gold (but only one report, over a year ago)
GRIP: Combat Racing + Artifex DLC - Gold
I think I'll go with it this month, since I don't have any of these games, and a couple of them look pretty sweet (Graveyard Keeper, Mages, Whisper).
Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Gold
Dirt Rally 2.0 + 3 DLC - Gold
Street Fighter 5 - Borked (such irony, considering it was meant to be native...)
Bad North: Jotunn Edition - Platinum
Trailmakers - Gold
Whispers of a Machine - Platinum
Mages of Mystralia - Gold (but only one report, over a year ago)
GRIP: Combat Racing + Artifex DLC - Gold
I think I'll go with it this month, since I don't have any of these games, and a couple of them look pretty sweet (Graveyard Keeper, Mages, Whisper).
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Silly me, I thought the "Classic" plan still meant you get all the games; claimed 10 before I realized there were more than the limit this time! At least I wasn't disappointed with what I left out, although I might have been more careful if I had been paying attention.
Someone else here suggested barter.vg a while back, and I've gotten some decent trades there.
I've never found a good way to sale/trade steam keys that isn't just a massive time sink and not worth it in the long run.
Someone else here suggested barter.vg a while back, and I've gotten some decent trades there.
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Looks like a decent bundle to me, the big let down being SFV being unplayable on Linux (although I already have it anyway).
Barter.vg is an okay way to trade, but one problem is that most of the active users regularly get the Humble Monthly. So everyone is trying to get rid of the same stuff. That should improve as people lapse from Humble Classic I guess.
Regardless, this month I might try pausing and just trade unwanted games from last month for the couple I do want (Two Point and Whispers).
Barter.vg is an okay way to trade, but one problem is that most of the active users regularly get the Humble Monthly. So everyone is trying to get rid of the same stuff. That should improve as people lapse from Humble Classic I guess.
Regardless, this month I might try pausing and just trade unwanted games from last month for the couple I do want (Two Point and Whispers).
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I made some decent deals on barter and can unreservably recommend trading over there. remember we are talking about keys that are absolutely of no use to you, and if you link your wishlist to it you can get at least something that is somewhat interesting to you.
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what 2 games do you guys are gonna skip out of the 12?
it is hard to decide, I narrowed them down to 3:
1. Whispers of a Machine - I don like point and click games, but on the otherhand this could be a gem among them, and with a good sci-fi story
2. Them's Fighting Herd - I dont like so much the cartoonish look, and that there are only ugly animals and I have already skullgirls which is said to be similar, on the otherhand it has very good ratings
3. Street Fighter V - which is Borked on proton, on the otherhand has more $ value and playtime, there are people there over 1000+ hours
Hmm, hard to decide.
I was also a bit shocked, I also thought that old Classic subscriptions will get all the games.
it is hard to decide, I narrowed them down to 3:
1. Whispers of a Machine - I don like point and click games, but on the otherhand this could be a gem among them, and with a good sci-fi story
2. Them's Fighting Herd - I dont like so much the cartoonish look, and that there are only ugly animals and I have already skullgirls which is said to be similar, on the otherhand it has very good ratings
3. Street Fighter V - which is Borked on proton, on the otherhand has more $ value and playtime, there are people there over 1000+ hours
Hmm, hard to decide.
I was also a bit shocked, I also thought that old Classic subscriptions will get all the games.
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Too bad I unsubscribed a few months back... Oh well... I don't have time to play anyway :D
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what 2 games do you guys are gonna skip out of the 12?I reckon Whispers got a good review from John Walker at Rock Paper Shotgun when it came out, maybe worth looking for that.
it is hard to decide, I narrowed them down to 3
SFV has people with heaps of hours doing online multiplayer. Possibly also a little grinding to earn in game currency for new cosmetics, I forget.
Personally I'd keep Whispers. SFV would probably be easiest to trade though.
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I didn't keep SF V (doesn't work) and Unrailed! (don't like online game. In fact i don't have friend to play with :P )
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pskosinski 5 Jan 2020
Two games I didn't chose are Them Fightin' Herds and Dirt Rally 2.0. First one, because I feel like vomiting every time I see those ponies and the second one because as I read it's impossible to play online on Linux, and that seems kinda common, BUT it's also impossible to even start single-player career mode because it needs to connect with server too. Therefore, even that it runs on Proton, there are serious limitations. Also, I got Dirt Rally for free some time ago, I didn't enjoy it much (I have no controller and it's must-have for the game) and in a few weeks it simply stopped working, every time I want to run the game I'm getting only dialog window with "error 127".
Dirt Rally 2.0 and Street Fighter V one can either play on Windows or sell.
Dirt Rally 2.0 and Street Fighter V one can either play on Windows or sell.
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what 2 games do you guys are gonna skip out of the 12?
Fuck, this is exactly what I feared :(
I'm going to stare at that for a few hours without coming to a decision, then cry myself to sleep, I guess.
Or on second thought, since January hasn't been paid yet, I'm going to cancel altogether. Better not have any of these at all than being paralyzed.
Last edited by DrMcCoy on 5 Jan 2020 at 8:47 pm UTC
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I dropped Dirt Rally 2.0 and Street Fighter V for being expensive DLC fests, at 145€ and 524€ respectively.
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Chronarius 6 Jan 2020
Well, I will pass for now till I know what the hell is going on with Humble Bundle. They have killed my credit card a third time now in less then two month! Evertyime I buy someting on Humble Bundle with my credit card. It becomes invalid a few days later.
Answer from Bank: "The Store, where I used my credit card, reported an attack in which my credit card details have been stolen." Answer from Humble Bundle so far: Silence!
Answer from Bank: "The Store, where I used my credit card, reported an attack in which my credit card details have been stolen." Answer from Humble Bundle so far: Silence!
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Chronarius 6 Jan 2020
what 2 games do you guys are gonna skip out of the 12?
Fuck, this is exactly what I feared :(
I'm going to stare at that for a few hours without coming to a decision, then cry myself to sleep, I guess.
Or on second thought, since January hasn't been paid yet, I'm going to cancel altogether. Better not have any of these at all than being paralyzed.
Geez! I wish I could kick two games out. IMHO easy enough :D. But with all that trouble with Humble Bundle at the moment... :><:
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