Topic: Humble Indie Bundle - Purchasing with Bitcoin? - page 2. (Read 3347 times)

This is what I sent the Humble indie Bundle team through email after buying the "Humble Bundle for Android 4" for 0.01 USD:

Hey, that's not a bad idea at all.

I really do like the Humble Indie Bundle concept, and have supported them in the past by buying bundles for a good price. But I hate the fact that they still don't accept Bitcoin and only work with malicious companies like PayPal. I too have been in touch with them requesting for Bitcoin support, and got the same answer as mentioned before.

Next time I will buy the bundle for an absolute minimum payment in USD (like 0.01$ or whatever is their bottom price), and then send a followup mail that if they publish their Bitcoin address, I will be happy to pay a few BTC on top of that. But BTC only, NO € or $ or £ or other spoofed fiat money.

I'm having a hard time navigating interesting stuff regarding ppl trading HIB for Bitcoin. I'll also try to list threads which are "dead ends" which have not developed for one reason or the other. People who act as middlemen/"middlewomen" for a purchase have so far been found under the "scams" section, let's hope the scams stop or somethin'. Just saving and I'm hoping for an update when I know more.

Multiple bundles:
by Lumpy https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wts-nearly-complete-hib-collection-six-indie-royale-bundles-portal-1-and-2-88223 "[WTS] Nearly complete HIB Collection, Six Indie Royale Bundles, Portal 1 and 2"
by Bananington https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wts-humble-bundles-for-06btc-eachsteam-keys-62100 "[WTS] Humble Bundles for 0.6BTC each!/Steam Keys"

Humble Bundle for Android(Released Jan 31, 2012)
by Qoheleth https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.724816

Humble Indie Bundle 6(Released Sep 18, 2012)
by Mr. Coinman https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/humble-indie-bundle-6-steam-key-113403 "Humble Indie Bundle 6 Steam Key"

Humble Indie Bundle 7(Released Dec 19, 2012)
CLOSED in marketplace by vuce https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-humble-indie-bundle-7-133622 "[CLOSED] Humble Indie Bundle 7"

'dead ends':
by corvid https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/successful-purchase-of-humble-bundle-v-from-qoheleth-84722 "Successful purchase of Humble Bundle V from Qoheleth"
by corvid https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/successful-transaction-with-qoheleth-63309 "Successful transaction with Qoheleth"

"scams"
by crusadar https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/humble-bundle-embezzlement-34833 "Humble Bundle Embezzlement"
by SHlFT https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/want-a-humblebundle-buy-with-bitcoins-32555 "Want a HumbleBundle?! Buy with Bitcoins!"
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Also, I'm considering doing a donation of the least amount of USD/EUR in disapproval of HIB not yet accepting Bitcoin. I'm considering to also send them an email explaining my position without expecting a reply, just explaining why I'll give them the least amount for HIB7(if it gets released).

Some user here I've read will boycott HIB completely but I think it's best to do some kind of action and donating the least amount will give them a strong message(even if it doesn't I don't care, their loss!) instead of just not doing anything. In all instances I'll of course notify them of my thinking and explanations of why Bitcoin and cryptocurrency really is something to accept.

I think bitcoin and HIB are a perfect match...except that they are in the business of helping game makers make a living, not in opening up new monetary trails. I would expect HIB to be one of the last groups to accept bitcoin, rather than one of the first.

Every avalanche starts with a snowflake.

Reading at https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-new-humble-bundle-and-bitcoins-not-accepted-make-your-voice-heard-77449 I got inspired to contact(I sent them an email) the Humble Bundle team to say that my intention is still the same. I will donate/buy with Bitcoins only regarding the HIB.

I also added the hints of the two basic core technologies that Bitcoin is made up of: Public key cryptography and something like hashcash(I forgot to refer to it as "Proof of Work", argh). Anyway I'm not expecting this to make any difference but at least they got +1 email from some user at bitcointalk that they wish to purchase HIB with Bitcoin.

HIB has an awesome, flexible payment processing, I think that if they add BitPay or similar, other companies might consider following. Good stuff.

Related:


Though it wouldn't hurt to remind them of their options (like to add BitPay.com as one of the many payment processors they use).

- http://www.humblebundle.com/contact


They know the existing payment options they provide are not ideal:

I got charged twice for one bundle!
 - http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/243223-i-got-charged-twice-for-one-bundle-

My Prepaid/Gift Card won't work
 - http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/292349-my-prepaid-gift-card-won-t-work

etc.

List of companies that have contributed to the bundles over the months/years and their stance:
Capybara Games, 2013-01-18, "Unfortunately we do not accept Bitcoin as payment."

I don't have any Humble Indie Bundles at all and I thought of one use case of using Bitcoin to buy them, or at least HIB6 which got Torchlight and Rochard.
I'm on linux(Ubuntu) and I would like HIB6 for that system. I don't know if anyone is selling but why don't you add a comment if you've bought the humble indie bundle or if you want to sell one? If this is not the right place just add a comment if you are interested in buying the HIB with bitcoins and we can see how many we are...

Editing this post with the idea to put links to past bundles and if any game dev was interested:

• The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-humble-bundle-mojam-2-146101
• Humble Bundle with Android 5 https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1589730