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1y ago

Humble Bundle expressing their feelings about Unity

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Lol, I dunno if it's them expressing their feelings so much as them taking advantage of a business opportunity.
- Honestly, I could see it being both. HB isn't entirely cold-hearted corporatism.
  
  Uh in 2017 Humble Bundle Inc. got bought out by IGN Entertainment which is owned by Ziff Davis ....so yeah it's part of a big shitty corporation.
  
  They're charity as a corporate marketing tool.
  Which makes them a lot of money (including a lot from me).
  
  They're IGN.
- When a gold rush gets going don't go digging for gold but sell shovels.
- Let’s meet in the middle and call it “jumping off a bandwagon” while introducing a wider audience to an alternative.
- Wouldn't be bad at all, since Dollar is the only language John Riticiello (the guy doesn't deserve me looking up how he's spelled... so that's what I go for...) speaks. Not fluently, but still.

Know what would have made this post actually useful? A link to the fucking sale.
- Here you go
  
  Reminder to max out the donation to either the publisher or the charity, and leave as little for Humble Bundle as possible.
- This is like common practice here.... talk about something. But don't actually link or post it

I got an email advertising a learn unity bundle from them this morning, I don’t think they have a stance lol
- Their stance is more money please
  
  Reminiscent of the Elvis manager that sold "I Hate Elvis" buttons along with his "I Love Elvis" buttons.
  
  same tho

Here is the actual link: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/everything-you-need-to-know-about-godot-4-encore-software
- I see these bundles but I always assume they are trash.
  Are they trash? I haven't been interested until now, but I've been meaning to learn a bit of game dev as a hobby and unity isn't really an option anymore.
  
  I did buy one of those Zenva bundles some time ago for Godot - seems to have very similar content to this one. It's alright. Target audience are beginners but I suspect that we'll get a lot more beginner tutorials on YT anyways.
  
  Depends if you're interested in them or not. I bought the NisiOisiN (Monogatari series) bundle a few years ago and got my value out of it. Too bad the Metadata wasn't in the same format on all of them and I had to edit it afterwards.

Apparently not enough feelings to take their "learn unity" bundle down that's still going for 10 days. The little money it raised so far is laughable compared to the Godot bundle.

I think it was mostly Zenva rushing to get some sweet cash while the drama and popcorn around Unity are still hot. HumbleBundle being anything but humble of course would set it up ASAP, I bet the charity was decided from a random wheel they keep around.
I hazard this guess because most other Zenva bundles offer Unity and/or Unreal courses. Also, a large portion of those Godot videos are "HumbleBundle Exclusives", so stuff that they likely haven't finished yet

How are these tutorials overall though. Humble has pushed out some real stinkers before from no-name tutorial mills so I'm always a bit way.
I know from their blender sales that some of the places they partner with are legitimately shit (low quality recordings, poor sound, poor pacing, not showing screen keys, poor instructor guidance etc)
- On Godot subreddit, some one complained that the pixel art course, which is worth $50(Zenva's default price) and included in this bundle has a poor quality and it's obvious that the instructor isn't an expert in the field.
  
  Zenva's instructors are extremely hit and miss.
  Many feel like amateurs who made 1 test project and are now teaching it.
  The phaser tutorial felt like the instructor was a C# developer trying to teach JavaScript.
  The only reason I support them because there's literally no other paid courses on a bunch of game development subjects that are in one easy to read place.
  
  Yeah was discussing this with a friend and basically this is exactly why I don't buy these bundles. They're often not really at the level of proper martial created by an educational institution, but more collections of stuff that you might otherwise find on YouTube etc
- No idea, but if you want to give it a try, let me know and I'll give you the keys.

Reminds me even more of the DnD problem. The Pathfinder 2 bundle was insane, happy I got it

Except they also have 2 bundles for unity and 1 for unreal. This is just cherry picked.

So, I guess you could say a lot of people are waiting for this?

I saw this and thought the exact same thing.

Be warned, Zenva runs on cloudflare and if you're on mobile, you'll be rate limited. I'm currently locked out of my brand new zenva purchases because of this stupid shit.

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