The Not So Humble Bundle, Should Humble Be Helping THQ With The Humble THQ Bundle?

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November 29th, 2012 | By

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The Humble Bundle started back in 2010 as a means to bring indie games to the masses and help out the small and independent developers. The bundle has grown over the years it has operated and has brought in a lot of money for developers and charity.

The aim of Humble has always been to give the developers a fair recognition and has always allowed the public to select the level of funding they believe it appropriate and how much of their money would go towards the developers, charity and Humble store. Check out the trailer for the latest bundle below:

Today the whole Humble mantra was turned on its head with the launching of the Humble THQ Bundle. THQ is global publisher who has fallen on bad times of late, with the past few releases not generating as much traction as they should have even with glowing reviews.

THQ is a relatively small publishing company in the modern lay of the land still dwarfed by EA, Activison-Blizzard and Square-Enix but should Humble be supporting publishers?

The idea behind Humble is to give the developer, the people who actually create the games the money directly and the credit for their creations. When creating a bundle for a publisher a lot of this message is lost as the money will go directly into THQ’s pocket not the developers.

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As many people have quite rightly said it is not so much an argument about indie Vs AAA it is more of an argument about Humble not supporting the developers. But it is of course a divisive issue.

Can the sum of $1 ooo ooo actually help a giant like THQ stay afloat? As this is the average amount made via selling on Humble.

I am sure you all have an opinion on the matter so be sure to head over to the forum thread here and thrash it out with fellow video game enthusiasts.

If you want to help THQ and support charity head over to the Humble store here.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/jonathonwisnoski jonathon wisnoski

    They very well might be a moderately small publisher compared to the very very biggest but Saints Row the third for example is in the Halo and CoD category of super mainstream games. The others are not much better. Darksiders and Metro (examples that I have played) might be very slightly more creative than a CoD game but at least CoD games are polished and enjoyable games to play at least for a little while.

    While I bear no malice towards THQ this is just the last step in the Humble Bundle’s decent into “anything to make a buck, or maximise profits”. I personally think it is the last stake in the coffin which contains their starting indie ambitions and mindset.

  • Robert Winkle

    … but you can choose who the money goes to. 0% to THQ if you think they’re the devil incarnate.

  • http://twitter.com/alexwilkinson Alex Wilkinson

    I do agree it flies in the face of everything Humble has tried to do, and really the money is not going to prevent THQ going out of business and worse most the developers have already lost their jobs.

    I am all for helping struggling companies that are worth it and personally I don’t want to see THQ go out of business. But I think doing it via Humble is a poor move and one that should not of been taken.

    I am sure this will only work against everything Humble have done right up to this point and we may see a decline in the popularity of Humble as a result of this in the new year, but who knows

  • http://twitter.com/alexwilkinson Alex Wilkinson

    I do agree it flies in the face of everything Humble has tried to do, and really the money is not going to prevent THQ going out of business and worse most the developers have already lost their jobs.

    I am all for helping struggling companies that are worth it and personally I don’t want to see THQ go out of business. But I think doing it via Humble is a poor move and one that should not of been taken.

    I am sure this will only work against everything Humble have done right up to this point and we may see a decline in the popularity of Humble as a result of this in the new year, but who knows

  • http://twitter.com/alexwilkinson Alex Wilkinson

    I do agree it flies in the face of everything Humble has tried to do, and really the money is not going to prevent THQ going out of business and worse most the developers have already lost their jobs.

    I am all for helping struggling companies that are worth it and personally I don’t want to see THQ go out of business. But I think doing it via Humble is a poor move and one that should not of been taken.

    I am sure this will only work against everything Humble have done right up to this point and we may see a decline in the popularity of Humble as a result of this in the new year, but who knows

  • http://twitter.com/alexwilkinson Alex Wilkinson

    that is true, but its not so much about them being good or evil it ‘s about Humble being used to promote AAA’s and not indies and really indies are the ones who benefit greatly from this model, THQ are really going to get little out of this in all likelihood

  • http://twitter.com/alexwilkinson Alex Wilkinson

    that is true, but its not so much about them being good or evil it ‘s about Humble being used to promote AAA’s and not indies and really indies are the ones who benefit greatly from this model, THQ are really going to get little out of this in all likelihood