The amount going to Humble is the most, even the the Humble slider is the lowest.

68 points

Asshole design being incorrect again and even misplaced. Classic.

Humble is still the best place to buy games to support Devs and charities.

5% to charity is still higher than 0% like all other market places. They still have to make profit and support the staff that work there… They themselves aren’t a charity… Come guys…

Also, they have the lowest cut take compared to all other market places. Steam, epic, Microsoft, they beat them all… AND you can get steam keys from them.

If you ever have to buy a game on steam. Buy it from humble to better support the dev. Stop crying that everything isn’t perfect, is still better than the rest. What’s more annoying then shitty captilism is misplaced anger and uneducated consumers.

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The slider for Humble is furthest to the left, while also being the highest cut of the pie.

That’s pretty fucking asshole design. You don’t get to claim you’re doing something “for charity” and then use psychological tricks to convince people to give more money to you. That’s not doing something for charity, that’s claiming charity as a marketing gimmick.

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Exactly, the Humble slider should mean the lowest but instead they get a whole 11 cents more than the Charity option, and 4 cents more than the developers. It’s preposterous. When the sliders are that close, yet there’s a whole 3% difference, it’s Asshole Design. Obviously the best answer is to use some other service that doesn’t even bother giving anything to charity at all. The good can get fucked, Perfect or Nothing.

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I vouch for a bit more nuanced.

These sliders are either a software bug or asshole design. That doesn’t mean the entire site is crap.

Other sites can have asshole pricing or asshole customer support humble clearly is a net plus even with this flaw.

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Deleted my account years ago when they capped donations to charities but not themselves.

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Just IGN doing IGN things.

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$0.60 by default? Another reason to hate humble.

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To cite them:

Our mission is to support charity while providing awesome content to customers at great prices.

Their first and thus apparently most important reason for doing all this is “to support charity”.

If we go by the screenshot alone, it’s $12 of which only $0.60 goes to a charity. Which is 5%. Compared to $3.60 or 30% for Humble. I’m not gonna include the developer’s fee because the developer is not the one claiming they’re doing it for charity - they’re obviously doing it for the money first and foremost.

Sure, more than nothing, but taking 30% is shady enough, IMO.

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The developers are taking a big revenue reduction to support a charity not Humble. If this is the recent bundle than what Jagex is selling normally costs more than $190. The default should favor the charity not Humble. Humble is just mooching of Jagex’s goodwill.

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Gamers make it their job to hate everything at nearly all times.

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Nah, I generally hate when something is presented as helping charity when most of the money doesn’t go to them.

Another reason I hate them is that they forbid giving away your games from the humble bundle.

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The whole thread is full of people who don’t HumbleBundle or donate to charity having strong opinions about both. They think that because the site mentions charity that they should be given free stuff for tossing $10 to a charity and that humblebundle must be greedy for being the only business that donates any of your purchase to charity.

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This is the sort of thing the law can’t keep up with. Markets do this better. I bet someone could make a “no ui bullshit” certification and then websites could display a little badge. Like LEED, but for websites and with regard to protecting the user’s sanity and trust.

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As long as all 3 can slide down to 0, I really wouldn’t care. Otherwise I’d back out of that site and never return.

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