An anonymous reader let us know that Wolfire is offering an awesome bundle offer of a bunch of great indie games - including World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru, and Penumbra Overture. Normally it would set you back USD$80 to buy all of those, but now you can name your own price - and opt to split your contribution between the developers, the Child's Play Charity, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (the US version of the EFA, which does extremely important work in the land where trampling on digital rights was born).
There is no middle-man. You can rest assured that 100% of your purchase goes directly to the developers and non-profits as you specify (minus credit card fees).
We don't use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely.
Not only is this a great deal, but you can directly reward the developers of these titles and contribute to a couple of great organisations.
SO GO AND DO IT! There's a
handy trailer on YouTube which showcases the bundle.
Posted 10:42am 06/5/10
Posted 10:44am 06/5/10
Don't forget they have to take out credit card transaction fees, so silly small values might not make them anything.
Posted 10:52am 06/5/10
last edited by CSIRAC at 10:52:01 06/May/10
Posted 10:49am 06/5/10
donated like $5 i think
Posted 10:51am 06/5/10
they still made a decent amount of money. some people paid >$50
Posted 10:54am 06/5/10
Posted 10:57am 06/5/10
Posted 11:10am 06/5/10
Anything less then $5 for World of Goo is bloody criminal.
Posted 11:57am 06/5/10
Posted 01:01pm 06/5/10
then keep in mind that those 16000 people who paid 1c would probably have just pirated anyway
Posted 01:08pm 06/5/10
More reading on it:
http://2dboy.com/2009/10/19/birthday-sale-results/
http://2dboy.com/2009/10/26/pay-what-you-want-birthday-sale-wrap-up/
Posted 01:10pm 06/5/10
But its more of a donation, I'll probably never play the games, have too much to do as it is ><
Posted 05:59pm 06/5/10
With that said I still think it's slack when people pay 1 cent for it; at least if it's a dollar then the money can really add up (besides, who doesn't have a single dollar to spare on a game bundle they want?). So far the average contribution is USD$7.96 which seems pretty good.
Posted 11:51pm 06/5/10
Posted 11:58pm 06/5/10
Posted 07:10pm 11/5/10
I bought it and played all the games, they are all brilliant, award-winning games. Go and buy it if you didn't already! Too many people have still not heard of this!!
Posted 07:13pm 11/5/10
Except for hardware cursor. Can make healing and tanking a pain.
Posted 07:35pm 11/5/10
looks like they will reach it