Humble Choice increasing in price by $3 / €3 next month, will now include IGN Plus (EU and Canada, maybe everywhere)

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Emails have been going out explaining the change:

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The enshitification of Humble continues.
 
Facism said:
Rather they took ignorant plus out of the package and its associated costs, thank you
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My guess is that since IGN owns Humble, there is literally zero cost in handing this out to Choice users. I'm sure they have a few people (and they know exactly how many and who) that subscribe to both services and will likely lose a small amount of IGN Plus revenue. Meanwhile, they can use this as a way to overinflate their IGN subscriber count, and also potentially use Humble as a way to drive clicks to IGN ("people might go to our site if they get ad-free as a perk") that'll drive their ad revenue for non-Plus members.

But yes it's 100% horse shit.
 
Ah so this is how they're going to pump up their shit ass sites premium subscription: by forcing it on people subscribing to a completely unrelated service.
 
The best thing about humble choice is the dirt cheap steam keys that come from it tbh. Humble has been pretty bad on average ever since IGN bought em, imho.
 
I believe it's been roughly the same price for a decade in Europe so I was expecting this. Certainly some of that money will go toward higher value games so let's see how it shakes out.
 
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Reizo Ryuu said:
Classic is 11.99 so I don't think so.
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Nowadays, before the cost update, is there any difference between "classic" and "monthly" subscription?
I remember they originally limited the number of games you could choose, but now I can't see any aside from the price (12'99 $ [Classic] Vs 9'99 $ (Monthly]).
 
JMRM said:
Nowadays, before the cost update, is there any difference between "classic" and "monthly" subscription?
I remember they originally limited the number of games you could choose, but now I can't see any aside from the price (12'99 $ [Classic] Vs 9'99 $ (Monthly]).
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Can you pause regular monthly sub?
 
Humble bundle choice were worthless after the three first months or so.

Humble bundle monthly were so much better.
 
Humble Bundle just keeps getting worse and worse.
It used to be amazing, but ever since IGN bought the company, it went on a steep decline.
Forcing people to pay more for a service no one asked for, is a proper anti-consumer move.
 
Hence my hatred for subscription services. They become the norm and prices continue to increase. What are you really saving? Fuck off with this absolute bullshit.
 
I don't want anything to do with IGN plus so I guess this is goodbye after over a decade of being subscribed. The writing was already on the wall anyway with how they were starting to give out EA keys.

I'll just grab the keys I want from 3rd party sites after they inevitably become dirt cheap.

Thanks for ruining a great thing IGN.
 
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How can a Charity be owned by a corporation Humble used to run like an NGO and thus got donated great priced keys. But now it became an industry within the charity. How shitty.
 
Good to know.
Guess I'll cancel my yearly sub then.
The last few bundles weren't all that interesting anymore to me.
Will most likely be cheaper to get the keys for the 1 or 2 games that interest me from the monthly choice after the price hike.
 
I had this realization there other day; we've reached a point where being associated with any of the legacy media orgs like IGN, Gamespot etc. actually delivers a huge blow to a gaming personality's credibility. Think about it. Especially reviewers. Do you trust an independent like ACG or someone like Ryan Skinny-Arms with IGN? I think the bubble of people who put any stock whatsoever into those credentials is contracting rapidly. To the point that it's actually inverted. I'm more likely to trust a random youtuber than someone with those associations.

I've had a negative view on the Humble org for years now. Attempts to commoditize what was once a cool charity gives the slipperiest, scummiest vibes you can imagine. Now it's nothing but a way to get cheap keys. I don't know if they still let you pick who gets your money, but I would have a hard time feeling good about either end of that slider.
 
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I'll just keep buying games from cdkeys once they get included in the monthly as they hit their all-time low
 
Ign has sucked for at least 10 years and continues to suck more. Sad to see them continue to be shit. I was there 3000 years ago at n64.com
 
I hope they leave the classic plan alone. Instead of cancelling i just pause almost every month because the selection has been awful.
 
simpatico said:
I've had a negative view on the Humble org for years now. Attempts to commoditize what was once a cool charity gives the slipperiest, scummiest vibes you can imagine. Now it's nothing but a way to get cheap keys. I don't know if they still let you pick who gets your money, but I would have a hard time feeling good about either end of that slider.
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Ya, some of the charities they picked are very questionable. On those I do 0% to the charity, minimum to Humble, max to developers.
 
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