On Sun, Aug 07, 2011, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: The Humble Indie Bundle No. 3 - Pay What You Want for Seven Cross-platform games": > games as well. What's to complain about, Nadav? I see no down side. you get > a game for cheap, the writers get publicity for cheap, and the EFF and > Child's Play get donations.
I guess there's nothing to complain about :-) Unfortunately, on the Internet, sometimes deals which seem too good to be true are indeed just that - and are often scams to get your credit card details, or something else. A lot of people thought that this African ex-president-now-refugee just offered them a million dollars because everybody wins in that deal - and then discovered that they lost ;-) But since you and others already dealt with this company, and don't have any complaints, I guess it's legitimate, and NOT a scam. Oh, but if you must, there are two things to complain about: 1. Why do commercial software writers feel they must charge $20 for a single game when they will be willing to sell it for even $1 (as this bundle shows - and as iPhone app sales show). I don't know if you remember yourself as a kid, but I do: I didn't have $20 to spend on each game I played. And $20 is actually relatively cheap for computer games... Also, it's not like I bought a $20 game and enjoyed it every day for months - typically you "collect" (don't ask how) dozens of games, and once in a while play one of them. 2. (obligatory for this mailing list) Why these games are not free software ;-) -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Aug 7 2011, 8 Av 5771 [email protected] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A computer without Microsoft is like a http://nadav.harel.org.il |chocolate cake without mustard. _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
