Humble Bundle has jumped in to help Ukraine now too, with a pretty amazing bundle full of games and 100% goes to charity. Launched late last night, it's already hit over $3 million.
The violent and unlawful invasion in Ukraine is taking a tragic toll—displacing people, devastating families, and creating an urgent need for food, water, supplies, shelter, and safety. To help out how we can, we’ve joined forces with game creators, book publishers, and software makers around the globe for a bundle 100% dedicated to supporting the victims and refugees from Ukraine during this crisis.
100% of the proceeds will go to Razom for Ukraine, International Rescue Committee, International Medical Corps, and Direct Relief. Support vital humanitarian crisis relief efforts for the people of Ukraine today.
Humble Bundle
Just some of what you can find includes:
- Amnesia: Rebirth
- Book of Demons
- Kerbal Space Program
- Metro Exodus
- Satisfactory
- Slay the Spire
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy
- The Long Dark
- Tooth and Tail
- Wargrove
See the full bundle for more.
Quoting: Liam DaweIt's a full charity bundle, completely different to normal bundles and they've always done this for them. Otherwise, people will just pay the $1 to get a bunch of Steam keys to resell.
Careful, very emotional message
They used to show this image
when you tried to pay less than 1$, how cool is this?! I use it everywhere, it's my steam avatar for instance.
I was personally one of those who paid way above average to support the indie devs who supported my platform, out of gratefulness, even though I had very little money as a student. And the fact they gave me the freedom to pay what I want also gave me the will to pay more. It was one of the things I loved about humble indie bundle, I felt respected and trusted.
They now advertise "pay what you want" and put a rather high minimum. That just doesn't feel like "pay what you want" anymore to me, whatever the reason.
They dropped other things that I loved about it:
- DRM-free, mostly gone
- not really indie games supportive anymore, it's just like other front stores for AAA games
- multi platform, completely gave up on that
Those were points that made the very soul of humble bundles, and I'm frustrated that those days are gone, thus my slightly salty comment :p
I still respect the fact it's a full charity bundle, very nice, the games in this bundle are indeed pretty good, although I have most of those already.
Last edited by toor on 19 March 2022 at 9:34 pm UTC
Quoting: STiATAnd Valve stops paying ukraine devs. Shame on you Gabe.Are we back to jumping to conclusions already? It’s an issue with their bank, they are working to resolve it, and developers can request payment to bank accounts situated outside Russia/Belarus/Ukraine in the meantime.
Source: https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/valve-suspends-payments-to-developers-in-ukraine-and-russia
Quoting: STiATAnd Valve stops paying ukraine devs. Shame on you Gabe.
And Valve is there to offer the infrastructure for all those games you got for free. Shame on you STiAT.
Instead of clicking through several pages every time?
Quoting: subDoes Steam allows to activate multiple keys at once?
Instead of clicking through several pages every time?
As far as I know, no. Bundle page is four clicks and keys page is the same. Some games come in bundles though, so you'll save some clicks.
Some years ago the activation happened directly from the bundle page, but now activation happens always from Steam store (you can activate the key with Steam client with the code, but that's even more cumbersome).
Quoting: AnzaQuoting: subDoes Steam allows to activate multiple keys at once?
Instead of clicking through several pages every time?
As far as I know, no. Bundle page is four clicks and keys page is the same. Some games come in bundles though, so you'll save some clicks.
Some years ago the activation happened directly from the bundle page, but now activation happens always from Steam store (you can activate the key with Steam client with the code, but that's even more cumbersome).
Sounds like something that could be scripted...
Quoting: subDoes Steam allows to activate multiple keys at once?
Instead of clicking through several pages every time?
just go to https://store.steampowered.com/account/registerkey and click "activate multiple products", then you can just paste one key per line.
Remember that you can only activate 50 Keys per hour
Quoting: TermyQuoting: subDoes Steam allows to activate multiple keys at once?
Instead of clicking through several pages every time?
just go to https://store.steampowered.com/account/registerkey and click "activate multiple products", then you can just paste one key per line.
Remember that you can only activate 50 Keys per hour
That's not there by default. I found these instructions though: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1369737759
I glanced at the script code and it does seem to have integration to Humble and few similar services. Hopefully it doesn't contain anything malicious, I'm not Javascript guru so I can't really tell.
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