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S.T.A.G.E. on 15 August 2013
kennyrester said:
ganoncrotch said:
kennyrester said:
This is very generous and thoughtful of you guys to give away the codes, but given that it only costs 5 dollars to get all these games and it's for charity don't you think it might be better to just let people buy the bundle themselves?

I think the idea is moreso that if someone picks up the bundle and they own some of the games on the list already they can offer them to the community here rather than just throwing the code in a bin. and yeah 5 dollars might not seem like a lot but you also have to go to the bother of hooking up your credit card to pay for it which not everyone can do easily. or heck 5 bucks could be better spent on food for some people but with a free code of a game they can both have food and play games to take their mind off shit with money for a few hours.


Yeah I get that they're spare codes for games they already have (or in this case origin codes when they've already used the steam ones), it just seems a bit iffy to me that someone would use these codes rather than pay a pittance to charity. Just to clarify, this is more a criticism of the people using the codes  than the people giving them.

I take on board your hypothetical situation of someone not having the money to buy the bundle, and it would be fair enough if they use the codes I suppose, but given that these codes are on a public forum it would have to be a pretty big coincidence that the person who uses them is also someone who couldn't afford the 5 dollars (or as little as one dollar if they don't want to pay above the average and get the 2 bonus games).  On the other hand the person who can't be bothered entering their credit card number to set up an amazon or paypal account but can be bothered setting up an origin account can fuck right off.

It just feels like the net affect of this well intentioned thread will be charities losing money.


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Ganoncrotch on 15 August 2013
kennyrester said:
ganoncrotch said:
kennyrester said:
This is very generous and thoughtful of you guys to give away the codes, but given that it only costs 5 dollars to get all these games and it's for charity don't you think it might be better to just let people buy the bundle themselves?

I think the idea is moreso that if someone picks up the bundle and they own some of the games on the list already they can offer them to the community here rather than just throwing the code in a bin. and yeah 5 dollars might not seem like a lot but you also have to go to the bother of hooking up your credit card to pay for it which not everyone can do easily. or heck 5 bucks could be better spent on food for some people but with a free code of a game they can both have food and play games to take their mind off shit with money for a few hours.


Yeah I get that they're spare codes for games they already have (or in this case origin codes when they've already used the steam ones), it just seems a bit iffy to me that someone would use these codes rather than pay a pittance to charity. Just to clarify, this is more a criticism of the people using the codes  than the people giving them.

I take on board your hypothetical situation of someone not having the money to buy the bundle, and it would be fair enough if they use the codes I suppose, but given that these codes are on a public forum it would have to be a pretty big coincidence that the person who uses them is also someone who couldn't afford the 5 dollars (or as little as one dollar if they don't want to pay above the average and get the 2 bonus games).  On the other hand the person who can't be bothered entering their credit card number to set up an amazon or paypal account but can be bothered setting up an origin account can fuck right off.

It just feels like the net affect of this well intentioned thread will be charities losing money.

you legit never know how some people are with money or what they have to take into account before they can spend even 5euros on games, check your pms.



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Pemalite on 15 August 2013
kennyrester said:


Yeah I get that they're spare codes for games they already have (or in this case origin codes when they've already used the steam ones), it just seems a bit iffy to me that someone would use these codes rather than pay a pittance to charity. Just to clarify, this is more a criticism of the people using the codes  than the people giving them.

I take on board your hypothetical situation of someone not having the money to buy the bundle, and it would be fair enough if they use the codes I suppose, but given that these codes are on a public forum it would have to be a pretty big coincidence that the person who uses them is also someone who couldn't afford the 5 dollars (or as little as one dollar if they don't want to pay above the average and get the 2 bonus games).  On the other hand the person who can't be bothered entering their credit card number to set up an amazon or paypal account but can be bothered setting up an origin account can fuck right off.

It just feels like the net affect of this well intentioned thread will be charities losing money.


Well. The Charities via Humble Bundle are doing anything BUT loosing money. Expect Millions of bundles sold in the next few weeks with the majority going straight to charity.
Heck, it's been 15 hours and 657,000 bundles have already been bought up by people.

I do get your point, but the few people that are giving codes away here is going to be a massively insignificant amount in the grand scheme of things by the weeks end.



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kennyrester on 15 August 2013
Pemalite said:
kennyrester said:


Yeah I get that they're spare codes for games they already have (or in this case origin codes when they've already used the steam ones), it just seems a bit iffy to me that someone would use these codes rather than pay a pittance to charity. Just to clarify, this is more a criticism of the people using the codes  than the people giving them.

I take on board your hypothetical situation of someone not having the money to buy the bundle, and it would be fair enough if they use the codes I suppose, but given that these codes are on a public forum it would have to be a pretty big coincidence that the person who uses them is also someone who couldn't afford the 5 dollars (or as little as one dollar if they don't want to pay above the average and get the 2 bonus games).  On the other hand the person who can't be bothered entering their credit card number to set up an amazon or paypal account but can be bothered setting up an origin account can fuck right off.

It just feels like the net affect of this well intentioned thread will be charities losing money.


Well. The Charities via Humble Bundle are doing anything BUT loosing money. Expect Millions of bundles sold in the next few weeks with the majority going straight to charity.
Heck, it's been 15 hours and 657,000 bundles have already been bought up by people.

I do get your point, but the few people that are giving codes away here is going to be a massively insignificant amount in the grand scheme of things by the weeks end.


Sure, I get that a couple of extra bundles sold isn't going to make a huge difference to the total, it just seems a bit morally dubious to me to use one of these codes that you haven't paid for



Pemalite on 15 August 2013
kennyrester said:


Sure, I get that a couple of extra bundles sold isn't going to make a huge difference to the total, it just seems a bit morally dubious to me to use one of these codes that you haven't paid for


Well, someone else paid for it.
At-least a financial transaction was performed rather than the "free" alternative. A-la, Pirating.



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kennyrester on 15 August 2013
ganoncrotch said:
kennyrester said:
ganoncrotch said:
kennyrester said:
This is very generous and thoughtful of you guys to give away the codes, but given that it only costs 5 dollars to get all these games and it's for charity don't you think it might be better to just let people buy the bundle themselves?

I think the idea is moreso that if someone picks up the bundle and they own some of the games on the list already they can offer them to the community here rather than just throwing the code in a bin. and yeah 5 dollars might not seem like a lot but you also have to go to the bother of hooking up your credit card to pay for it which not everyone can do easily. or heck 5 bucks could be better spent on food for some people but with a free code of a game they can both have food and play games to take their mind off shit with money for a few hours.


Yeah I get that they're spare codes for games they already have (or in this case origin codes when they've already used the steam ones), it just seems a bit iffy to me that someone would use these codes rather than pay a pittance to charity. Just to clarify, this is more a criticism of the people using the codes  than the people giving them.

I take on board your hypothetical situation of someone not having the money to buy the bundle, and it would be fair enough if they use the codes I suppose, but given that these codes are on a public forum it would have to be a pretty big coincidence that the person who uses them is also someone who couldn't afford the 5 dollars (or as little as one dollar if they don't want to pay above the average and get the 2 bonus games).  On the other hand the person who can't be bothered entering their credit card number to set up an amazon or paypal account but can be bothered setting up an origin account can fuck right off.

It just feels like the net affect of this well intentioned thread will be charities losing money.

you legit never know how some people are with money or what they have to take into account before they can spend even 5euros on games, check your pms.


My Premenstrual syndrome?

Seriously though, like I said if you really, really can't afford 1 dollar then fine, but how likely is it that the people using these codes are also the people who can't afford that 1 dollar. Not very likely, i'd guess



kennyrester on 15 August 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:
kennyrester said:
ganoncrotch said:
kennyrester said:
This is very generous and thoughtful of you guys to give away the codes, but given that it only costs 5 dollars to get all these games and it's for charity don't you think it might be better to just let people buy the bundle themselves?

I think the idea is moreso that if someone picks up the bundle and they own some of the games on the list already they can offer them to the community here rather than just throwing the code in a bin. and yeah 5 dollars might not seem like a lot but you also have to go to the bother of hooking up your credit card to pay for it which not everyone can do easily. or heck 5 bucks could be better spent on food for some people but with a free code of a game they can both have food and play games to take their mind off shit with money for a few hours.


Yeah I get that they're spare codes for games they already have (or in this case origin codes when they've already used the steam ones), it just seems a bit iffy to me that someone would use these codes rather than pay a pittance to charity. Just to clarify, this is more a criticism of the people using the codes  than the people giving them.

I take on board your hypothetical situation of someone not having the money to buy the bundle, and it would be fair enough if they use the codes I suppose, but given that these codes are on a public forum it would have to be a pretty big coincidence that the person who uses them is also someone who couldn't afford the 5 dollars (or as little as one dollar if they don't want to pay above the average and get the 2 bonus games).  On the other hand the person who can't be bothered entering their credit card number to set up an amazon or paypal account but can be bothered setting up an origin account can fuck right off.

It just feels like the net affect of this well intentioned thread will be charities losing money.


Are you American?

No. Why?



Ganoncrotch on 15 August 2013
Pemalite said:
kennyrester said:


Sure, I get that a couple of extra bundles sold isn't going to make a huge difference to the total, it just seems a bit morally dubious to me to use one of these codes that you haven't paid for


Well, someone else paid for it.
At-least a financial transaction was performed rather than the "free" alternative. A-la, Pirating.


aye, was the reason I updated steam to try and poach a MoH code because piracy doesn't allow you play online and yeah I currently fall into the category where I can't splash out on massive purchases like 5euros games.



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Ganoncrotch on 15 August 2013
kennyrester said:
ganoncrotch said:
kennyrester said:
ganoncrotch said:
kennyrester said:
This is very generous and thoughtful of you guys to give away the codes, but given that it only costs 5 dollars to get all these games and it's for charity don't you think it might be better to just let people buy the bundle themselves?

I think the idea is moreso that if someone picks up the bundle and they own some of the games on the list already they can offer them to the community here rather than just throwing the code in a bin. and yeah 5 dollars might not seem like a lot but you also have to go to the bother of hooking up your credit card to pay for it which not everyone can do easily. or heck 5 bucks could be better spent on food for some people but with a free code of a game they can both have food and play games to take their mind off shit with money for a few hours.


Yeah I get that they're spare codes for games they already have (or in this case origin codes when they've already used the steam ones), it just seems a bit iffy to me that someone would use these codes rather than pay a pittance to charity. Just to clarify, this is more a criticism of the people using the codes  than the people giving them.

I take on board your hypothetical situation of someone not having the money to buy the bundle, and it would be fair enough if they use the codes I suppose, but given that these codes are on a public forum it would have to be a pretty big coincidence that the person who uses them is also someone who couldn't afford the 5 dollars (or as little as one dollar if they don't want to pay above the average and get the 2 bonus games).  On the other hand the person who can't be bothered entering their credit card number to set up an amazon or paypal account but can be bothered setting up an origin account can fuck right off.

It just feels like the net affect of this well intentioned thread will be charities losing money.

you legit never know how some people are with money or what they have to take into account before they can spend even 5euros on games, check your pms.


My Premenstrual syndrome?

Seriously though, like I said if you really, really can't afford 1 dollar then fine, but how likely is it that the people using these codes are also the people who can't afford that 1 dollar. Not very likely, i'd guess


private messages, the little yellow ! in the top right of your screen. Guess all you want, that doesn't mean you are right.

 

edit - You know if your main issue with this is the fact that charity isn't getting enough money, think about it, people on here giving codes away to others for free is exactly what charity is, giving something you have to someone who doesn't have stuff. Ok so you don't believe that anyone who would bother quickly trying to nab a code for a game to play something really needs the charity, but who's to say that anyone who accepts the charity money which comes from the Humble bundles would need it? nothing stopping a rich person accepting handouts of cash.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 15 August 2013
kennyrester said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
kennyrester said:


Yeah I get that they're spare codes for games they already have (or in this case origin codes when they've already used the steam ones), it just seems a bit iffy to me that someone would use these codes rather than pay a pittance to charity. Just to clarify, this is more a criticism of the people using the codes  than the people giving them.

I take on board your hypothetical situation of someone not having the money to buy the bundle, and it would be fair enough if they use the codes I suppose, but given that these codes are on a public forum it would have to be a pretty big coincidence that the person who uses them is also someone who couldn't afford the 5 dollars (or as little as one dollar if they don't want to pay above the average and get the 2 bonus games).  On the other hand the person who can't be bothered entering their credit card number to set up an amazon or paypal account but can be bothered setting up an origin account can fuck right off.

It just feels like the net affect of this well intentioned thread will be charities losing money.


Are you American?

No. Why?


Just trying to understand your psychological, systematic and philosophical base for why you would assume its wrong to give free numbers out to people. Your mentality seems to align itself with neo-conservatism in America. It was just a first guess. Heres another question: I am sure you would love to give your family or friends presents if you can regardless of their economic situation (ie: Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries or other special occasions), correct?