Humble Bundle Opens New Store
You May Want to Hide Your Wallet
Humble Bundle opened a new store today. Rather than offering buyers to pay what they want for a collection of games, the new Humble Bundle Store provides games at a discount, similar to Steam’s daily and weekend deals. With first day sales including titles such as "Prison Architect," "The Swapper," and "Don’t Starve," Humble Bundle offers deep price cuts ranging from 50 percent to 75 percent.
So far, all titles have Steam support. Additional icons show if the game is compatible with Mac OS X or Linux. Although none of the opening day games support Android, the store’s sidebar states that some future titles will.
There are a few changes from the Humble Bundle purchases buyers have grown used to, though. Most notable is that, while the store still supports charities, the payment split between charity, game developers, and Humble Bundle itself is predetermined. 75 percent of the sale will go to the game creator, and 15 percent to the people at Humble Bundle, The remaining 10 percent will be split evenly between American Red Cross, Child’s Play, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Charity: Water, and World Land Trust.
Secondly, not all the games are DRM-free. This has been a huge selling point for Bundle purchasers in the past, but the store will offer sales from many different developers, and not all are willing to make that plunge away from DRM. Buyers concerned about buying only DRM-free will notice that those titles do show a DRM-free icon in the store’s game selection.
Only five hours into the store’s opening, Humble Bundle has raised over $40,000 for charities.
Source: The Humble Bundle Store
