Know what would have made this post actually useful? A link to the fucking sale.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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Reminder to max out the donation to either the publisher or the charity, and leave as little for Humble Bundle as possible.
Why. Not fighting you. Genuinely wanna know lol
The general sentiment is that the publisher did all the work, and the charity needs the money the most. Humble Bundle is a fantastic platform, but they are a middle man than takes a slice for bundling the products and presenting them to you. That has value, but the other two options deserve a majority of the pie.
They used to let you donate nothing to Humble but now a portion is mandatory.
Ok I see what you mean from reading other comments. Thanks for the tip
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.
I mean, if Elvis got a cut of that in some way (or we can bend the logic of which cash went where enough for this joke to work), odds are he spent at least some of it on drinks, figuratively drinking the tears of his haters.
same tho
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.
I actually started writing a Godot course at my friends urging after I taught it to him over meets, but hated the sound of my voice and only recorded the first lesson. Is this something needed that I could make actual money on?
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
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?
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.
I saw this and thought the exact same thing.