Just got this notification from Humble about another price increase.
I never saw a reason to buy the choice subscription. I just get the bundles i am interested in, and save money.
I’ve been in the choice subscription for a few years. It’s a lot cheaper. But damn does it fill out your steam library fast.
You know? This might be the excuse I need to finally end my subscription. I’ve way too many games already.
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
They aren’t losing business if it costs them money to have you as a customer
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.
I forgot this company existed when they got rid of ‘pay what you want for the actually good games’
Yup. I understood when they made the $1 minimum but pay what you what has basically been fraud for years now, ever since they started locking games behind an actual price. It’s just a bundle sale, and it’s not humble anymore
I never understood why someone would stay subscribed to it. Like just get it when there’s something you want from it that month and then cancel.
The 20% discount on purchases is very nice, though the monthly offerings are extremely hit-or-miss. I’m not sure I’ll stay subscribed at this price, though. The value of the subscription is simply too unpredictable.
The 20% discount is completely theoretical. Very few games, if any, were discountable that low
I use it about once every two months. Most recently, Clair Obscur.
it was 6% off with max discount for everyone else though
The maximum discount you get is dependent on how long you’ve been a subscriber. 20% requires one year or longer of membership.
Yep, and applicable games, of which are near-none
Oh great, another reason for me to not subscribe. Humble bundle stopped being so humble like a decade ago
Did they not just do this for the month of June? Or perhaps it has been a staggered rollout and they first increased the prices in Canada.
