I'm tempted to call this a cynical business move on their part, but the fact EA are raking in none of the profits themselves leads me to be fairly charitable about the whole thing.

I bought it, and I don't regret it, and I hope it breaks $10 million.

That's awesome. I did my part!

Indeed. Giving money to charity is always good, and this was a rare guilt-free purchase. I suspect their goal here, aside from good PR and maybe an honest desire to be charitable, was to try and get people to create Origin accounts in hopes they'll become regular customers later on. 

Also notice the bundle includes Deadspace and Deadspace 3 (maybe you'll like them and buy Deadspace 2 later....) or maybe you'll like Battlefield 3 and pickup 4 later, etc. Getting their games out there is never a bad thing.

This is a rare nice move by EA, I bought it even though I may never get around to playing any of these games (Mirror's Edge is the only one that really tempts me to be honest) because I like to support the humble bundle and a small part of me wants to see how massive my backlog can get :)

Maybe EA will be humbled by those numbers. ^^

It's really sad that the average is $4.80 for 8 games knowing full well most of it goes straight to charity.
Less than a dollar per charity.

In the end, it's a nice deal, for a good cause, and everybody comes home happy.

It's good to see real competence in the industry these days. Especially EA, who can never seem to catch any good PR.

I will have to say, a lot of people are missing the obvious thing this accomplishes, in large most users will dust off origin and finally use it (At least for the non steam games). EA isn't completely doing this out of goodwill, they do benefit from this as well.

I'm not concerned about the people who can barely afford to spend $5.

I'm concerned that it seems to be the majority...and I'd wager most of those people offer more substantial tips to their pizza delivery guy.

Damn you EA I hope yo.....!

Oh... wait. Yeah yeah one good thing.