New Humble Weekly Bundle (5 Linux Games Out Of 7)

Am on mobile and can't be bothered checking, but isn't this a weekly Bundle? Why is everyone banging on about cross platform?

Only the Humble Indie bundles made a big deal of cross platform.

Still think it's a shame they devalued that brand by branching into all these 'conflicting values' models, but they are a business and they do raise money for charity.

Nothing there that tickles my fancy/that I don't own already. Pass.

Quoting: sevThis is so typical. Linux users support a platform rabidly and loyally, promote it loudly, and then the platform abandons us. Humble Bundle, eeePC, Dell OEM Ubuntu machines, Scratch... I bought every Humble Bundle release when they were staunchly cross-platform, but lately they have not bothered. Such a pity.

This latest release is nice for being semi-cross platform, but I'd like to see more effort from them before I fall back into throwing my money at them.

The Humble Indie Bundle isn't the same thing as the Weekly Bundle, nor any of the special bundles (WB, etc). Just because they have expanded doesn't mean they have sold out.

The distinction between Indie bundles and other bundles as regards DRM-free and cross platform policies is an artificial distinction invented after the fact as a rationalization. The first couple of bundles not labeled Humble Indie Bundle <insert number here> were also both DRM free and cross platform, take the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle as an example. The fact is for about the first 2 years or so of the existence of the Humble Bundles there was no non-Indie bundle exception, it was invented after the fact.

It used to be the case that developers had to port their games to Mac and Linux and provide DRM free builds to get to be in a bundle by Humble Bundle Inc. That is no longer the case, so that is one less incentive to port games to Linux. I am not actively boycotting Humble Bundle over this but I am using the option to not give Humble tips (or give lesser tips) on some bundles and avoiding others completely.

And here I thought HB had stopped pushing for cross platform games in their bundles. 5 out of 7 ain't bad but it still isn't what it used to be. I thought this might happen though, they were bound to run out of fully cross platform games eventually. It's just too bad HB stopped porting, I guess the ball has passed to Feral now.. unless there's another company out there doing a full court press on Linux porting I am not aware of

Quoting: KristianThe distinction between Indie bundles and other bundles as regards DRM-free and cross platform policies is an artificial distinction invented after the fact as a rationalization.

Yep, agreed. But they do still do decent work for charity. They're just not relevant any more as a Linux advocate. When you reduce their entire hook to "charity" instead of "charity, Linux, DRM-free", then I'd rather give my games money to GoG and keep my monthly charity payments as they are - relevant to me, and not chosen by a reseller in another country.

Quoting: sevThis is so typical. Linux users support a platform rabidly and loyally, promote it loudly, and then the platform abandons us. Humble Bundle, eeePC, Dell OEM Ubuntu machines, Scratch... I bought every Humble Bundle release when they were staunchly cross-platform, but lately they have not bothered. Such a pity.

This latest release is nice for being semi-cross platform, but I'd like to see more effort from them before I fall back into throwing my money at them.

Same here

I'm tempted for AI and Teleglitch ...
While it's been a while where there are more Linux games than non-Linux ones, seriously, are there so few quality Linux games that EVERY bundle has more Linux games I own than Linux games I don't?

Quoting: KristianThe distinction between Indie bundles and other bundles as regards DRM-free and cross platform policies is an artificial distinction invented after the fact as a rationalization. The first couple of bundles not labeled Humble Indie Bundle <insert number here> were also both DRM free and cross platform, take the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle as an example. The fact is for about the first 2 years or so of the existence of the Humble Bundles there was no non-Indie bundle exception, it was invented after the fact.

It used to be the case that developers had to port their games to Mac and Linux and provide DRM free builds to get to be in a bundle by Humble Bundle Inc. That is no longer the case, so that is one less incentive to port games to Linux. I am not actively boycotting Humble Bundle over this but I am using the option to not give Humble tips (or give lesser tips) on some bundles and avoiding others completely.

This. Seriously. This.

Yeah, I have all of these.