Introducing the Humble Indie Bundle 6

Negative Nelly warning: I've bought a couple of these bundles but won't buy another. One big selling point of the bundles is that they are cross-platform compatible, and that's one of the reasons I buy, as I have Ubuntu on my home computer. Unfortunately, at least some of the games which are advertized as working on Linux simply did not work for me, Trine in particular (which is sad because that game was the main reason I bought the Frozenbyte bundle).<p>I initially had issues on an older machine &#38; updated ubuntu, followed the threads (it was a common issue), followed the debug &#38; fix steps, but to no avail. I chalked it up to the hardware but with a brand new linux box and new (months later) download of Trine it <i>still</i> didn't run. I haven't bothered spending another hour searching down and going thru all the fix steps. It looks like there might be a new, possibly working version by now but it's been months and months and I've basically forgotten about it.<p>I don't expect everything to work OOTB in linux, but I'm using a popular distro, many of the games work fine, and if I'm paying for a "Linux compatible" game I expect it to be Linux compatible with a reasonable small number of clear steps without spelunking thru a dozen forum threads &#38;c.. This is not "free" software, I paid for it and expect it to work.<p>I want to support humble bundle but it's too frustrating to buy a game and have it not even load.

I love this, even if you aren't a huge fan of games, it's a great way to donate to EFF and Child's Play and get <i>free</i> games.

It's interesting to see that Linux users ($8.92) on average donate around 40% more than everyone else ($5.36). Also, Windows users are cheaper than Mac users.<p>This is from the average donation amounts on the page.

In the past, Humble Bundle has occasionally used strong sales of a bundle as a reason to release some of the games in that bundle as Open Source. If they'd consider pre-committing to that based on target thresholds, I'd donate to this in a heartbeat; we need more good Open Source games.

I feel like the last Humble Bundle might have set the bar too high for the following bundles.

can someone explain to me how you can make money on a game like Rochard (one of the games in the bundle)? There is such an incredible amount of detail in the background in each scene, it looks like few thousand hours of work just that.

These games look pretty good, unfortunately I literally can't spare any more money this month.<p>Would it be a dick thing to do to pay $0 for this bundle and promise myself to pay a lot more for the next bundle (even if the games suck)?

Uh oh - I wasted a lot of hours on Torchlight. Luckily I had to return it (complicated story). I think I should pass on this bundle, too dangerous.

I keep buying these and never seem to have time to actually play all of the games :(.

I keep hoping that they will release Trine 2 as part of the bundles. I know it's only been less than a year since Trine 2 came out. Humble Bundle introduced me to Trine 1, which was the first game I've completed in ages.

'Pay more than the average of $5.50 to unlock Dustforce!' Genius. This <i>should</i> just keep pushing the price up and up as each person pays more than the average. Wondering how this will work out.

I'm a FP gamer, if some of these were FP I'd love to buy them.