Hey, they added a captcha on below the average purchases. I guess that's understandable. Probably people have bots farming this deal to sell the games later.

Interesting... When I originally installed Burnout Paradise from Steam, before this bundle, I was trying to sign into the EA stuff for online play through it, I couldn't remember my credentials and fired up Origin to work it out
Once I'd signed into EA the game appeared in Origin but the next time I started Origin it had gone (it was still in Steam and was automatically signing into EA when loaded, as I'd told it to)
Now when I've redeemed my Origin code for Burnout from this bundle, Origin knows that its installed already and appears in the Origin list ready to play!

The main problem of Humble Bundle is that in the beginning that had strong DRM free appeal. They made an impression they have a principled approach to it, not unlike GOG. But then they started getting Steam only games, and now Origin? By selling such games they endorse the concept of DRM. I'm really glad that GOG is brave to reject any games with DRM, even though GOG doesn't sell Linux games yet, while Humble Bundle do...

Funny thing is, it goes in cycles. EA used to be good, then bad then good, then bad, then now 'good' (whereas Activision - and rightly so - are seen as spawn of satan atm (Bethesda cant be too far behind)) now. Yeah.Heaps are hypocritical "Boo Hiss down with EA for making Origin and their games use that service only" etc etc...yet people buy the games because they are on the cheap. $$$ drives people.just look at Humble. Im pretty neutral - have games with both service....

Sounds almost as bad as if Valve bought GOG.

I find it very refreshing that Humble Bundle is now starting to sell Origin keys (and games for which they offer only Origin keys). If I see one Steamtard complaining about this "because I don't wanna use Origin, but Steam"... nyah nyah nyah! :D Maybe they now understand better why some people want GOG to release certain games, even if they already exist also on Steam.

Not sure if I'll get this. I have most of the games already on Steam, not sure if it offers anything to have them also on Origin separately. Then again, some like KneeTheCap feel that having The Witcher 2 on both Steam and GOG is more value than having it only on GOG, so I presume that similarly having e.g. Mirror's Edge in both Steam and Origin is also "more value"?

Maybe I'll get it for Dead Space 3 and Burnout Paradise then (nice that you don't even need to beat the average for them). Does it have lots of useful DLC that you'd have to buy separately, or is the base game, without paying anything extra, just as good?

BTW, what is that "Medal of Honor" game? The same as in GOG? Didn't someone claim before that EA does not add Origin requirements for their older games?

it's the 2010 medal of honor

Ok thanks, then that is also worth something to me in this bundle, I guess.

I looked at the Burnout Store in Paradise and from what I saw none of the DLC stuff was available to purchase, presumably because the "Ultimate Box" includes it all. The extra stuff is just cars anyway, as far as I know.

Beat the average, albeit the few games I really wanted were already in the base offer.

I forgot to check where the money goes, usually I put the charity part to nil, giving the most to developers and Humble Store.

There's some little value in that you still get to use your preferred platform but you also:
a) get a form of fail safe against DRM (you might have one service down, but the game available on the other one)
b) get to access to all the fluff that is/will be available on both the specific clients (achievements, trading cards, whatever they might come up in the future...)

It's nothing i would spend extra money on, but when it comes at the price of one single purchase, then it's a nice bonus.
This time the choice is only between charity and HS, no money to EA

EA can never be good. Its crimes are too big for it to ever redeem itself.

And yes, I take this as another confirmation that Humble Bundle is becoming more and more a key reseller to 3rd party services, rather than trying to develop a digital store of their own. It is faster and much easier, at least in the short run, to make quick buck as a key reseller.

I see Humble Store is still in beta. I wouldn't be surprised it will remain in that state infinitely.

Yeah, now I see I sent part of my money to some silly US-centric foundations and such. I would have rather sent the money even to EA.

Not to mention that they hold the best IPs from old games and is quite willing to sell them on GOG. And they sell them all (?) for 6$ here, even though people would gladly pay more. If it wouldn't be for GOGs shitty release schedule, we could be swimming in the greatest classics.

Come to think of it, so did I. I installed it for the free Crysis 3 multiplayer beta, but these are the first Origin games that I've actually bought.

No matter, I would have had to install Origin at some point anyway, just for the Mass Effect trilogy.

Heck, I still seem to have even the OnLive client installed on my PC. I don't "own" any games on that service though, but occasionally used their "play this game for free for 60 minutes" offers.

I always liked EA too. And I don't really care what people love or hate, they are just too random to care. Valve forced us to sign contract that was saying that we will never sue them. They are also biggest provider of DRM on the world, yet people love Valve. I guess you have to do bad things in silly hat and people won't notice. ;)