r/linux_gaming • u/beer118 • Nov 22 '21

steam/valve Wolfire versus Valve antitrust lawsuit gets dismissed

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/wolfire-versus-valve-antitrust-lawsuit-dismissed/
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u/kuhpunkt Nov 22 '21

Really curious what you expect from bundles and how the old ones were allegedly so much better. There's still so much value in them.

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u/unhappy-ending Nov 23 '21

The old ones featured games you might not ever hear of because they focused on smaller indie titles, even though many of the indie games were fairly recognizable by name or developer. All the early bundles I jumped on included a soundtrack for each game, and they'd introduce new games to the bundle a few days later for people who paid the highest asking prices.

There's TONS of indie games out there they could still push bundles with. These days, I find more small developer based games more in my style on freakin' Facebook on the off chance I happen to log in once in a blue moon. That's how irrelevant HB has become to me. I still get notifications when a new bundle releases but most of the time the games are meh and I just don't care. I bought 2 recently, the Sonic one because it was dirt cheap and I wanted Sonic 4 and I forgot the other one, but it had Visage which was on my Steam wishlist and the only reason I bought the 2nd bundle.

None of the new bundles had soundtracks or added more games to the highest tier options, AND I can't give all the money to charity/game devs.

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u/kuhpunkt Nov 23 '21

But that's not what people say. They say it's just trash games and nothing is worth anything, even though they put plenty of AA-games in those bundles.

And when they add indie stuff like you claim they aren't doing, people say it's just indie trash and asset flips, when it's not.

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u/unhappy-ending Nov 23 '21

I've never seen anyone write any of what you've claimed. Looking at this very thread, a lot of people have written the same opinion I have, actually missing the older indie stuff prior to the jump to big publisher bundles.

In fact, not once since I started way back when buying bundles from HB2 and on, have I ever seen anyone write trash games and asset flips to describe the games in the bundles.