The Humble Bundle brand is really going downhill these days.
Between the full bundle currently being the Humble Origin Bundle (i.e. a bunch of EA games) and the weekly bundle being the "picked by Pewdiepie" bundle, Humble Bumble is just going all to shit lately, it seems.
The EA bundle sounds great in theory, especially given that EA is supposedly giving their share entirely to charity (for a huge tax write-off, I'm sure), but it's all just A) a PR stunt to try to get back into gamers' good books (which, sadly, seems to be working) and B) a ploy to get a bunch more people to install Origin who otherwise probably wouldn't have (which, sadly, also seems to be working since I've seen a lot of people saying that they are going to install it for this). Thing is, the Origin servers are apparently broken for people trying to redeem the codes for this stuff. On the other hand, the equivalent Steam codes (for the games that aren't exclusive to Origin entirely) are apparently working just fine. Amusing, that. In any event, this is just EA exploiting the once honorable Humble Bundle brand for their own ends, and people are sucking it down like it's kool-aid.
As for Pewdiepie... he's just some schmo who does shitty Let's Plays of horror games on Youtube (or, at least, what little I was able to stomach of the few I tried to watch were rather shitty, anyway), so I have no idea why he's apparently Big Name™ enough to be getting a Bundle, really. I mean, if it were a bundle of games picked by Matt and Pat of the Two Best Friends Play series, that I could understand since they're awesome, but Pewdiepie...? *shrug* With that said, I've played Botanicula, McPixel, and Amnesia, and they're all pretty cool, so I have to give him credit in that he has good taste in games on those counts, at least. The other two don't look all that interesting to me, though.
The EA bundle sounds great in theory, especially given that EA is supposedly giving their share entirely to charity (for a huge tax write-off, I'm sure), but it's all just A) a PR stunt to try to get back into gamers' good books (which, sadly, seems to be working) and B) a ploy to get a bunch more people to install Origin who otherwise probably wouldn't have (which, sadly, also seems to be working since I've seen a lot of people saying that they are going to install it for this). Thing is, the Origin servers are apparently broken for people trying to redeem the codes for this stuff. On the other hand, the equivalent Steam codes (for the games that aren't exclusive to Origin entirely) are apparently working just fine. Amusing, that. In any event, this is just EA exploiting the once honorable Humble Bundle brand for their own ends, and people are sucking it down like it's kool-aid.
As for Pewdiepie... he's just some schmo who does shitty Let's Plays of horror games on Youtube (or, at least, what little I was able to stomach of the few I tried to watch were rather shitty, anyway), so I have no idea why he's apparently Big Name™ enough to be getting a Bundle, really. I mean, if it were a bundle of games picked by Matt and Pat of the Two Best Friends Play series, that I could understand since they're awesome, but Pewdiepie...? *shrug* With that said, I've played Botanicula, McPixel, and Amnesia, and they're all pretty cool, so I have to give him credit in that he has good taste in games on those counts, at least. The other two don't look all that interesting to me, though.