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Lol, I dunno if it’s them expressing their feelings so much as them taking advantage of a business opportunity.

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Honestly, I could see it being both. HB isn’t entirely cold-hearted corporatism.

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86 points

Uh in 2017 Humble Bundle Inc. got bought out by IGN Entertainment which is owned by Ziff Davis …so yeah it’s part of a big shitty corporation.

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Humble has coincidentally been a lot more shit since then too. I used to buy game bundles all the time, now it’s $20 to get maybe 2-3 games worth playing instead of $15 for 5-6 indie titles that were genuinely good.

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I can’t be the only one that thinks IGN, a game reviewing website, owning a publisher and storefront seems utterly immoral, right?

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30 points

They’re charity as a corporate marketing tool.

Which makes them a lot of money (including a lot from me).

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They could easily make more money with the same image by limiting how much revenue goes to the charities. You can choose to not give them anything.

I’m not saying they aren’t in it for the money. Most people need to make money to survive. But I think it’s disingenuous to say they don’t care at all. I think they do good and I feel many others agree.

A corporate marketing tool that costs such a large portion of your revenue is an inefficient tool. There must be some other value in it for them.

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I’m fine with them even without the charity honestly. They sell DRM free books for cheap which is the only way I’m actually going to pay for digital books. We need more of that.

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17 points

They’re IGN.

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11 points

“You can’t spell ignorant without IGN!”

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60 points

When a gold rush gets going don’t go digging for gold but sell shovels.

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Let’s meet in the middle and call it “jumping off a bandwagon” while introducing a wider audience to an alternative.

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Wouldn’t be bad at all, since Dollar is the only language John Riticiello (the guy doesn’t deserve me looking up how he’s spelled… so that’s what I go for…) speaks. Not fluently, but still.

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