They show "choice" as a benefit of the classic tier, this super implies there will be more than 10 titles a month (or at least some months will have more than 10).
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Humble Monthly is becoming Humble Choice - December 6th
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They show "choice" as a benefit of the classic tier, this super implies there will be more than 10 titles a month (or at least some months will have more than 10).
Got it. Thanks! So the best value for me will be to sign up to get grandfathered and once it switches to Humble Choice just keep it paused until a worthwhile month pops up. Good stuff.
I get why yearly subscribers have an issue with the new model, but for my money it's so much better. Just the value in knowing what games are incoming makes it worth the extra cost. There were multiple months where I considered subscribing, but would have been super disappointed in the offerings and multiple months where I didn't think it would be worthwhile and then several of the revealed games were from my wishlist. I just abhored that hidden games method. Because of that, this is a huge improvement, and there will be no question about whether each month is worth it for me or not.
Happy to finally be onboard the Humble Monthl--er...Choice train!
Or.... it's a very simple oversight where they just copied and pasted everything in the columns as the marketing team was told that the classic has everything the elite does but an extra game to keep.
I really wouldn't go into this thing expecting more than 10 games to choose from, you are only setting yourself up for disappointment. Wait for humble to confirm there will be more than 10 games to choose from every month.
I've bought like 3 monthly bundles. Sucks that it's getting more expensive but I won't be threatened into a permanent sub like this.
realistically if it keeps the same quality this will be a $3 price increase for people who just sub occasional months without any gamble on what will be in it, as it's extremely rare that more than 3 games are must have in any given humble monthly.
That doesn't make sense when the Classic plan won't be an option when this goes live and it's the only plan with 10 games.
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Once your 3 month plan ends, you'll be switched to monthly, most likely.
you keep the plan you are on
so if you are doing the yearly it would still be $11 per month. it's in the classic plan extra details.
I mean, if there's 15 excellent games and I can choose only 10, that's a great problem to have. If there are 25 games to choose from, and only five good ones, then that's still five good games and if at retail worth more than $12, again a win win.
Kind of the same, but more transparent. Now you will have a more clear idea of whether you should pause for a month or not since all the games will be revealed up front.
More likely, I'd expect that total number of games will vary month to month. January might have 10, February 12, March 11 etc.
Guess will see tho.
So they're locking us in now. No more jumping in and out. You're either in it at the classic price, or you're paying more money for a lot less content.
That's where I'm most likely landing myself. But the video makes it very clear that 10 is likely the number of choices we will see each month. I could totally see them trying to get a few extras, but 10 is obviously their min and the video implies that 10 will work like the humble monthly where you just get the bundle.
I watched the video and read most of the thread and I'm still exactly confused about how this is supposed to work. They've done kind of a poor job of communicating.
Have I got this right?
Classic - Get 10 games per month - you don't have to choose anything
Premium - Get 9 games per month - you don't have to choose anything
Basic - Get 3 out of 9 games per month - you pick which three games you get
Is that it, basically? Do Basic subscribers get to choose from the same selection of titles that the Classic/Premium people do?
Have I got this right?
Classic - Get 10 games per month - you don't have to choose anything
Premium - Get 9 games per month - you don't have to choose anything
Basic - Get 3 out of 9 games per month - you pick which three games you get
Is that it, basically? Do Basic subscribers get to choose from the same selection of titles that the Classic/Premium people do?
basic you get 3 choices
premium you get 9
classic you get 10
if there are 10 games to choose from then premium you choose one you don't get.
if there are 20 games to choose from then in general you will miss out on some.
the thing they aren't clear about right now is if there is more than 10 games to choose from. from the quick info page with the choice it seems like there would be, but from the video it seems like there will be 10 games to choose from and that's it.
this has always been true. and will likely remain true. It was never truly the best deal to sub to humble monthly unless you love basically any game that comes out, it was always better to just buy the keys you wanted from other people :P
Wow such a bad value for 13 bucks. I mean you only get 3 crash games, 3 spyro games, cod and then another set that will be revealed at the end of the month.
This was my major concern, now that I know pause is still in I'm totally on board with this!
D'oh my bad, sorry.
Well for me that is still a good deal long as I can pick 9~10 games I'd want ^^;
Are they really going to allow Basic subs to pick any three games they want? I can see them limiting certain tier games to Premium and Classic subs.
It also seems really unclear to me how long you have to decide or make your choices. If I don't touch my Humble account for 6 months, when I come back do I still get to pick everything I want? Or will a decision be made for me at some point?
One nice thing about Humble is that while I kinda ignore it for long periods of time, sometimes someone will recommend a game and say "This is really awesome, and it was in the July Humble." Then I can go back and pick it up.
Do choices roll-over if I don't make any? If I am Basic and I picked zero games in October, can I make 6 choices for the November selection?
Why wouldn't they. The basic sub is still $15 (only $5 cheaper than the elite sub)
basic = sub for people currently jumping month to month
classic = sub for people who have subbed all the time
elite = sub for people who jump month to month but have fomo :P
that is indeed not clear (and I assume you would just be subbed for the months) I'm guessing what will go on is that each month page will just let you choose X number of games matching your sub. They already have a system in place for limiting keys based on things for stuff that is on multiple stores. Like if you buy keep talking and nobody explodes you can either get a steam key or an oculus key but not both.
I believe it's more about not wanting to give Activision any money. Those are all Activision games.
fwiw, we'll see how it pans out in practice
The price of basic is 75% of the premium sub, so I'm guessing they can pick whatever they want.
look if I'm wrong I'm wrong and the end result will be I'm pleasantly surprised and have more choice than I expect.It says it right on the site though..
"More games every month"
if I'm right then people like you will be upset and I will be perfectly content.
I lose absolutely nothing by assuming the video they spent vastly more time making is more accurate than the graphic. If you want to believe there will be a large pool of games to choose from then go ahead. Humble has yet to officially confirm any range of games that you will be able to choose from, and I personally find it foolish to assume it will be above 10 when the video makes it fairly clear that classic will work like monthly and you will get 10 games.
But I can't control how other people view things, just don't expect any sympathy from me when humble does come out and confirm that most months will only have 10 games to chose from.
Ok I am listening
I can just TP your house one random day a month. Same thing
Ouch, that price increase if you don't lock in now is harsh. They might actually get to me as I often feel these Monthly bundles are good value.
It depends since most people tend to use Paypal, fees are pretty terrible unless you're in the same region. I found buying singular games not viable at all. Now if I buy-in every month, I usually end up selling my extras/undesired keys after waiting a little while. It definitely subsidizes the cost as certain games could cover most of not all of a single month. You lose out on that option otherwise.
No one needs your sympathy, it's not that big of a deal. I'm just pointing out what it says.
For how much time you can pause the monthly?
BTW OP (domthybomb ) add the FAQ page directly in the first post, so ppl have more info:
BTW OP (domthybomb ) add the FAQ page directly in the first post, so ppl have more info:
I can't imagine you'll ever get 10 titles you want every month. You'll end up just grabbing whatever at that point.
Yeah I also assume more than 10 games from what info we have gotten so far. "More games" would be silly to say otherwise since it's been up to 11 in the Monthly before, and 10 in the latest bundle, but I guess that if they have 10 each month it's gonna be a couple of extra over time since the current bundle jumps around and often is a little under 10. The Classic choice checkmark would be a complete error if there were only 10 games. But if that turns out to be a mistake on their part then so be it, I wouldn't be the least bit "upset". I would question why they wouldn't outright state that it would be 10 games and say it isn't a choice with Classic, but that's that.
"Basic" sub is 25% more expensive than the current sub of Humble Monthly, and you get way fewer games. There is no reason to further punish the "Basic" customers.
and you also seem to be completely ignoring the video which is way more likely to be accurate *shrug*
As for not being a big deal, The whining and salt from people is going to be massive if people keep spreading around that the 10 sub gets you a choice and there is only 10 games to get.
The proper narrative to set at this point is that there will be at least 10 games to choose from, there may be more but it's not clear at this time.
If there is something you can always count on gamers to do its whining about things when they don't go the way they assume they would even if there is no actual proof that it would go the way they assume :P
The video makes it pretty clear it's intended to be 10 choices. As for why they wouldn't outright state 10, because most likely they will be targeting 10 a month but some months will be able to line up extra choices. Which would still make the choice check mark true, just not every month :P
Again, ideally I'm wrong and there is a large pool of games to choose from. But's it's really foolish to assume that is how it will be when they haven't actually clearly stated and the two sources of information they have somewhat contradict each other.
Humble classic is literally objectively better in every single way.
Was it just not viable for them to continue doing this anymore or something? Are they having financial issues?
Was it just not viable for them to continue doing this anymore or something? Are they having financial issues?
So the reveal happens after the
I'm thinking that they have to step up their game now due to XBox Game Pass on PC.
Have not been able to watch the video. Website would be almost false advertising if there are 10 games as a standard. At least very misleading and bad.
But as I said, I don't really care myself. 10 revealed games is better than what we get now. I'm just saying that everything on the site points to more than 10 games and that's that.
The whining will all be Humble's fault. Let people bash them if that happens because they would deserve it. ;)
Games in general are less likely to bundle themselves anymore. There are lots of bundles, and for most the long terms benefits of bundling isn't there.
You have a strong narrative going around about not devaluing games (partially in thanks to Epic games and their originally statements about not running sales which they have backtracked on since) and bundles are viewed as a way to devalue your games instead of a way to market/get a boost of revenue.
You also have stuff like gamepass which if you don't want to own games long term and instead just want access to as many as possible is the vastly superior deal and likely hurt the humble monthly sales.
To get notable games on the service you have to pay for them, which is likely why the price increase is happening, because at $12 the humble monthly was really a solid deal. Most of the time the headliner game as $12 alone would be the best sale it had ever been on. (and it instantly started making those games sell for $5-$8 on other places like our very own buy/sell/trade thread)
Something had to change, and humble has been emailing people about changes like this for a while.
to be fair they make classic sound like it will work like the monthly in general so if there is more than 10 games it would be almost false advertising because you wouldn't be able to get all the games like you did with the monthly :P
edit: now that I actually got around to looking at https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...-relaunching-more-expensive-as-humble-choice/
Most likely the first, and yes, this is basically a nicely dressed up price hike with the change that you no longer will be blindly buying any games.
More like sub Lite during a good sale, buy some games you have been eyeing and get an extra 10% off, grab all the Trove games, unsub until next good sale when more Trove games have been added.