I felt sorry for the guy who had to clean up the courtroom. He was infected with histoplasmosis.
Poor guy.
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I cancelled for a similar reason. It wasnāt necessarily that I was getting games I already owned (though that did happen), it was more because the games I was getting were not really āmeā there were certainly cool titles in humble monthly, butā¦
the titles revealed for each new month were never anything that made me gasp aloud and say:
Unfortunately, humble monthly typically only had 1 or 2 games every 3 months or so that I was really interested in, and those were always games that showed up after the month had passedā¦ So a lot of humble monthly was me looking in the store window
CURSE YOU SLIME RANCHER THE MONTH I DECIDED NOT TO BUY INā¦ THE MONTH!
Those single games though were never enough to make me pull the trigger on the purchase for next month though, cause once a game I wanted showed up one month, pretty low chance I would see it again. That made humble monthly loose a lot of charm for meā¦ because I knew I wasnāt going to get the game I saw and wantedā¦ I stuck to the bundles, and recently I got free of even thoseā¦ My wallet has never felt so great!
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I want to get it just for God Eater 2. I planned to use some money I got from Youtube to pay for it, but Iām having issues with that atm.
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Mafia IIIās a weird one. In terms of the Mafia series, I have to preface this by saying I hate the whole series. Itās really WAY beyond anything I can handle. SR2 pushed the line a bit, but overall thereās something about the tone of Mafia and GTA alike that just leaves me shaking my head in half-annoyance and half-disgust, like the entire premise of their stories relies on shock value.
Now, moving beyond that: Mafia III isnāt as bad as you hear. Thereās a lot of people who have given it a fair shake since its messy launch, like I did with Mass Effect Andro-- um, bad example! Anyway, now that a lot of the worst bugs have been dealt with, itās a somewhat alright game in its own right.
God Eater is Monster Hunter for weeaboos. Moving on.
Deus Ex MD is another hard one to talk about, because I loved Deus Ex Human Revolution. I hate SquareEnix for a lot of reasons, and this is definitely one of them. Mankind Divided is half of one of the best games ever made. They were deliberately told āyouāre going to tie this into a sequel thatās being developed right now,ā and Eidos did the best they could with this. The publisher was VERY hands-on, and made a lot of abrupt/forced āmarket-trendyā decisions that kept pushing them back. The fact that the first half of Deus Ex 4 is so brilliant says a lot about the developers and how much passion they have for the series. It works perfectly as a sequel to Human Revolution, and spins off of the events with a much darker tone about the āMechanical Apartheidā that appears when
huge spoilers (for Deus Ex Human Revolution)
āAugsā are treated like dirt for the psychotic break at the end of Human Revolution, while simultaneously they grow violent and unrest develops when they resort to violence for fear of their own lives.
Itās a story that easily could have been screwed up, but they handled it perfectly. As someone whoās augmented, but still working with INTERPOL, youāre constantly stuck in this contemplative middleground where you have no idea what youāll end up having to do next or which side (if either) would actually take you in.
Like I saidā¦ half of a game. It ends abruptly on a cliffhanger, then the trilogyās ending was cancelled.
All that discussion aside, I cancelled my subscription this month. Forgetting to cancel for Dark Souls III was a pleasant surprise, but the rest of that bundle was pure filler. This month, weāre looking at three games with Denuvo, one of which I have, two of which I already know Iād hate every moment ofā¦ and those are the showcase games. I think weāre starting to see IGN in Humble poking out a bit.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided still has denuvo from what I can tell and make no mention of it on the steam page. God eater 2 does as well but at least theyāre honest about it.
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Yup, thatās Square for you. Final Fantasy 15 also hid itā¦ and thereās already word going around that the cracked version (since Denuvo doesnāt even protect these games well anyway) runs better than the paid version. Proud to be a second class citizen, I guessā¦
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Didnāt see your Denuvo paragraph before I started my own post. Mostly because you edited it in while I was writing : )
Though I can not see that Mafia 3 has it, at least not the PC version or so Iām told.
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I might have made a mistake. Like I said, I hate the Mafia series, so I havenāt paid any real attention.
According to PCGW, it uses Arxanā¦ to which I honestly respond, āwhatever.ā I donāt trust Denuvo because it has ties to SecuROM; the only games Iāve played with Arxan are Black Ops 3 and Quantum Break, both of which run fine and donāt cause my computer to implode.
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Thank you. Itās pretty much an awful deal for us, poor Brazilians.
Also, Iām not entirely sure how far from the lootbox logic the Humble Monthly is. I mean, Iām still paying a considerable amount (see second sentence of post) for mostly unknown games. If the early unlock itself is not something I wantā¦
And hereās the thing: 12, with conversion, is always too much for the single game that is revealed AND the games I want most are always the God forsaken indie games they never tell me about beforehand!
Uuuugghhhhh
Itās just overall a very stressful environment for my weak soul and my empty pockets and my waif hipster bullshit mindset.
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You can pause your membership and skip months you donāt want. You can cancel after redeeming your keys.
You also get access to the āHumble Troveā dozens of DRM-free games, some really good and some very unique indie gems. You can keep those games forever. That alone is worth one $12 charge!
I signed up last month for Dark Souls III, and will be skipping this month. Itās a good deal already, but with that option plus the trove, itās a fantastic deal.
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Dude dude dude, Mafia 2 is amazing just for the feeling of driving some car from the 60s!
I donāt like the other, similar titles you mentioned either, but for different reasons than the āshock valueā parts ^^
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Throwing in my two cents, I often find that the monthly bundles (despite my only purchasing one) are really hit or miss for me in terms of content Iād want. So I really just tend to justify it with āis the featured game(s) worth the $10-12?ā If it is, then any other games in the bundle are just extra goodies. If not, then itās hit or miss to it being worth it for me.
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After that last bundle, Iād employ the same philosophy. Dark Souls III is good and all, but the rest of that bundle was more or less 100% filler. This month, I donāt even have any interest in the filler games, so I paused a month to buy either SWAT 4 or For Honor instead. Woot!
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Humble sent out surveys to random selected subscribers about possible changes to the Monthly Bundles
IGN paymasters demand ALL THE MONEY!
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Itās bad enough they donāt give downloadable games but for a fewā¦now thisā¦
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As of today itās a great value as far as Iām concerned. I very seldom get duplicates and itās always worth 12 bucks.
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I think youāre selling God Eater short. The fan service is there and if thatās a deal breaker I get it. Thatās valid. However, the game is amazing. Iāve played all the monster hunter games since Tri and it scratches that itch very well and itās incredibly deep and as complex as you want it to be. Theyāre similar but theyāre different like PUBG and Fortnite are different (they are lol). Any other fans out there?
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I know the gameplay is damn fine. Thatās why itās just a shame about the theme. Iām sticking with Dauntless.
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Yeah, as long as youāre not getting duplicates itās a great deal. Plenty of great bundles with great games, not to mention a few pleasant surprises like Owlboy along the way.
That said, I started to call it the Humble āDAMMIT I ALREADY OWN THATā Bundle after a while as a joke, and it slowly became less of a joke as time went on. Civilization VI, Quantum Break, Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, Dawn of War 3, Civilization VIā¦ the list started to really drag on for the short time that I held a membership. After Deus Ex MD and Overgrowth, I was just kind of like ārightā¦ I think Iām done here.ā
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I have been an annual subscriber since launch but I have also frozen my subscription and skipped at least 5 months. Ever since Humble moved to the early reveal model I have made it a rule of thumb that I freeze my annual sub and skip any month where I do not like the early access reveal. If I feel the early reveal is worth at least $12 then I let my sub run and anything else that unlocks is gravy. If the early reveal is something I dislike (IE: H1Z1 month, TES Online month, CoD Blops Multiplayer month, etc.) I just skip that month entirely no matter what the reveal may be.
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