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Humble Indie Bundle 2 Brings in $1.8 Million

Posted on Monday, December 27 @ 13:30:00 Eastern by danielrbischoff

Sorry to say, but if you didn't plop down your self-named price on the Humble Indie Bundle 2, you're too late. You even missed out on the original HIB which was tossed in to the package about half way through.

The good news is that Bundle can officially be called a success. There was a total of 232,849 individual purchases of the bundle, with an average price of $7.83.

Breaking that down by platform reveals that Linux users are the most generous and Windows users are the most stingy, separated by an average of about $7. Mac users landed around the middle with an average price at $9.86.

While purchasers could decide what their chosen-price would go to, be it Electronic Frontier Foundation or Child's Play Charity. Of course, they could also put the money in the developer's pocket or the organizer's. With that much money coming in, I'm sure the Humble Indie Bundle has plenty for charities and themselves. More specific details will be available later.

If you're interested in the top donators, those numbers can also be found above. You'll notice (Minecraft developer) Notch's sizeable donation and OnLive's creative advertising.

I missed out on both packages, mostly due to laziness... I have enough games to play. If you did pick up the bundle, brag about your generosity or thrift in the comments below.

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  • Rinnon
    Rinnon - Joined: Nov 8, 2005
    I ended up buying this bundle the first time around. Less because I was intersted in the games, and more because I wanted to put in my "vote" (read: In capitalism, you vote with dollars!) to say that these sorts of things WILL work, and we as consumers DO want them. I hope to see more things like this in the future.
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    Posted: Dec 27th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander - Joined: Sep 29, 2006
    I ended up buying the Bundle this year mostly for Braid, which I've been meaning to play for quite a while. I was pleasantly surprised to get an email a few days later telling me that they had decided to give access to last year's Bundle as well. I do sort of feel bad for only paying a dollar though.
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    Posted: Dec 27th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670 - Joined: Jun 15, 2007
    Its both really sad and really nice to see those high donating advertisers
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    Posted: Dec 28th, 2010 at 7:23 am

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