Hacker News Reader

Comment by mdanger | Hacker News Reader

I remember there being some discussion around the Humble Bundle brand getting "diluted" by the Frozenbyte bundle last time, and I have to wonder if that's becoming the case.

View on HN

Agreed - at this point it's nothing more than a every so often flash sale with a name your own price system. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing - but I have far less interest in donating larger amounts "to support the community" when it's becoming a deal site - instead I am starting to get the mentality to get everything at the greatest deal I possibly can.

Your post made me realize something. Just like you, I'd previously been generous in my payment to "support the community". When I loaded up the page today and saw the offering, I mentally said "I don't have $20 to blow on this right now" and left the site. Until I read your post, I never even considered that I could just pay less than $20.

Even odder, once I finish writing this, I'm still not heading over there to buy the bundle, even though I could only spend $0.01.

On the other hand, I have $200 left to my name total, and I'm happily spending $1.00.

If $0.01 is all you can afford, there's no shame in it.

With the Frozen Synapse bundle, I had come to the conclusion that there is be sufficient market for the HIB to never stop running (eg, a new bundle every two weeks) if they only did one game at a time.

One game a month is a little more sustainable. Hopefully there will still be a big packs once in a while.

Is it better or worse? Not sure. Though it is telling the HIB guys did not even record a trailer for this one.

Yeah it seems like they're crowdsourcing game development now:

> Get Voxatron's future content and gameplay updates.

I'm not following you; in what sense is that crowdsourcing? I assume that the "future content" will be developed by the original developers, possibly using the revenue from this deal.

I think he meant crowd funding.

Thanks, that makes sense.

I was initially sceptical, but actually Frozen Synapse is quite a good game.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com