Just got this notification from Humble about another price increase.

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    8 days ago

    That’s about a 40% increase in the amount I have been paying for years without fail, partially at the threat of if I cancel, I lose my grandfathered pricing.

    And frankly the quality of the bundles has been dropping for a while.

    I guess I finally cancel then. What a silly way to lose business

    Edit: and cancelled, happy there was a text box for me to tell them why I’m gone. 8 years of paying monthly apparently

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        8 days ago

        They are losing business, because revenue goes down.

        They will negotiate the prices they pay publishers for a set of keys to use in humble choice to mean they get their 15% cut of the revenue. If a publisher sets the price too high, they’ll go elsewhere until they can get their margin.

        If they lose ~25% of their subscribers over a ~40% price hike, they will be right back where they started in terms of profit—which is a place where they would consider hiking the price and losing customers.