![]() In November 2012, Humble Bundle released it's first bundle containing games from a major publisher. Humble Bundle continued to release bundles for Android and via Steam and eventually bundled albums as a "Humble Music Bundle" and eBooks as a "Humble eBook Bundle". At the beginning of 2012, Humble Bundle announced it's first bundle for Android and included 3D Boy's World of Goo for Android. Customers were provided product keys so the games could be download via Steam. Initially, Humble Bundles consisted of bundles of games from independent developers and included World of Goo and Wilfire's own Lugaru HD. And not only did a portion of the sale go to the charity, Rosen allowed the users to decide what percentage of the sale went to the charity. Rosen decided to combine the two ideas by offering bundles and allowing customers to bid on how much they want to pay for it as well as adding the element of giving a portion of what's paid to either Child's Play or to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The other idea was the "pay what you want" sale of 2D Boy's "World of Goo" on the game's 1 year anniversary. Jeff Rosen, of Wolfire Games, observed the success of game bundles sold via Steam (think of the success of the Orange Box). The Humble Bundle idea started out, roughly three years ago, due to the success of two separate ideas. Despite the fact that Worms Pinball doesn't work on my laptop without inducing a seizure (I kid you not), I was hooked! What the heck! I got everything for only $10 and gave $4 of that to charity. This bundle not only included Worms Armageddon, Worms Revolution and Super Frog, but also Alien Breed, Worms Ultimate Mayhem, Worms Crazy Golf and Worms Pinball. Who doesn't remember Team 17's Worms Armageddon and Super Frog? But when Worms Revolution came out last year on Steam, I hardly even noticed. The next Humble Bundle email I received was for the Team 17 bundle. I was asked how much I was willing to pay for the bundle AND how of that amount I wanted to give to the publisher, Humble Bundle (the company) and a charity. I already had Mirror's Edge, Battlefield 3 and half of the other titles in the bundle, but I missed out on Dead Space 3, Burnout Paradise and Red Alert 3: Uprising. "Who are these guys?!" I asked, "Why am I getting this spam?!" When I looked at what they were offering, I was intrigued. ![]() Over a year later, I received an email from Humble Bundle. I looked and found a few decent games, but never did pull the trigger. A few days later, I was told about Humble Bundle again when a couple of my gaming friends tell me about some great game deals they found on Humble Bundle. The only problem is, I already had the CDs they were offering. They offered music from TMBG, Jonathan Coulton, Ok Go and some others. The first time I heard about Humble Bundle was with a Humble Music Bundle in an email from my subscription to the They Might Be Giants instant fan club. I heard about it a couple times, actually. I first heard about Humble Bundle in July 2012. ![]()
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