• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Even Humble Bundle itself is pretty enshittified compared to how it used to be. They used to give you a lot more control over which charities you supported etc.

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      1 month ago

      IGN bought them a couple of years ago.

      Besides locking down the charities, they also increased the “minimum to get all of it” price for bundles to $25, and made it so the “minimum” tip to Bundle is $7.50, up from $1. They also hid the charity sliders behind more obscure UI elements so people mostly forget that selecting the share of the bundle going to charity was a big part of the experience.

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        1 month ago

        I remember when the minimum tip to Bundle was $0. That change also stood out because I used to set it to something like:

        • $1/game going to developer for games that had native Linux versions
        • $1/game going to charity for games that didn’t (+more to meet any minimums to get the whole bundle)
        • $0 tip (because Humble as middleman got plenty of profit from people who left it at the default)

        And I often picked a different charity than the default.