Rhonin the wizard on 11 January 2022
Humble Bundle has announced changes are coming to Humble Choice. Blog post here, FAQ here.
Summary
- tiers will be consolidated to only one with a price of $11.99 USD per month for all the games;
- claims to focus more on quality of games and that number of games offered might differ between months;
- introduce Humble Games Collection, a collection of games that can be played so long as one has an active subscription. This will require to download the Humble app to play them. February's will be: Forager, Wizard of Legend, Dodgeball Academia, Unsighted, Void Bastards;
- Trove will become Vault in the app where you can download from that collection of games, once downloaded they will remain playable even after the end of membership;
- Bonus discount on their store up to a maximum of 20%, based on how long one has been a member. Skipping or cancelling reduces it back to 10%. Below is how the discount rate changes;
| Consecutive Months | Discount % |
| 1 - 2 | 10% |
| 3 - 5 | 15% |
| 6 - 11 | 17% |
| 12+ | 20% |
Since I'm on the classic subscription this isn't a big change for me. I already own 3 of the 5 games from their collection, I might use it to check out if the others are any good.
I'm not fond of this line from the FAQ:
Humble Choice provides a curated selection of hand-picked games that are yours to keep forever, redeemable via a key for a variety of platforms when available (Steam, Epic, Origin, GOG, etc.)
Never liked it when keys outside of Steam were given.
My current plan will be renewed near the end of February so I can at least check if the first month of this new arrangement is any good.
