Humble Bundle let go 20% of its staff

[TopWargamer]

Source 1: http://www.destructoid.com/humble-bundle-s-let-go-20-of-its-staff-315201.phtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Source 2: https://www.polygon.com/2015/10/12/9513937/humble-bundle-cuts-jobs

 

Humble Bundle has been in a bit of a rough patch recently, and this shouldn't come as a surprise to most of us. Since starting Humble Bundle they have raised $65 million for charity to date. They've expanded upon the original Humble Bundle by offering more bundles and an online store, and increased its employee count. Unfortunately though, the last few Humble Bundles haven't been selling that well, so Humble Bundle had to let go 20% of its staff - 12 people. 

 

Humble Bundle claims that their plans were too ambitious, and I'm inclined to agree. The last main numbered Humble Indie Bundle in September 2014 had around 200,000 sales, while the current one has around 140,000 sales and appears to be the lowest selling Humble Bundle to date. Remember, Humble Bundle use to have bundles that had 500,000 or more sales. That's a large step down. All I can say is good luck to Humble Bundle and good luck to those 12 people who lost their jobs. I wish the best for them and hope that they can get back on their feet soon.

[Misanthrope]

Also the shittiest as of today. I think they have seriously outpaced the number of decent new indie games and back catalog to offer already.

[Mohenjo]

its sad, once the hype dies down, no one cares because it doesn't benefit them

[PlayStation 2]

They gotta slow down on the bundles and offer a bit more publisher packs, speaking of which, have they done another Codemasters bundle?

[Guest]

Damn, I've never bought anything from them but I hope they'll be fine.

[Misanthrope]

They gotta slow down on the bundles and offer a bit more publisher packs, speaking of which, have they done another Codemasters bundle?

 

Even with those they have offered too many already that's why I said "back catalog" referring to those.

 

For example, I haven't really bought any new games for a good while now. This is mainly because at 177 in my steam library plus a bunch of miscellaneous ones on GOG and Origin, I simply have most of what I wanted to have.

 

And I have most of the new games I wanted too have too (Witcher 3, Cities: Skylines, Pillars of Eternity) so the rest are either too expensive with regional pricing or not compelling enough for me to pay full retail right now: I am effectively waiting for newer games to get old and discounted.

 

I suspect this is the position of a lot of people with large collections that are there in no small part due to humble bundles. 

[dragosudeki]

Seems more like the result of over evaluating what the company would've become, which is evident from their email:

 

Unfortunately, last week Humble Bundle was forced to let go of some of our employees. Despite strong revenue, and our community surpassing $65 million raised for charity to date, our past hiring was too ambitious and we had to make a hard call last week.

They did get really popular before, but popularity ultimately dies down, especially with the prevalence of sites that regularly offer discounts (such as GMG) and rise of GOG.

[LancerBG]

Sucks for those people but as with most things in life you always have to be ready and have a plan B. Good luck folks. 

[MrRavens]

They should add a slider for how much you want to give to them as well.

[TopWargamer]

They should add a slider for how much you want to give to them as well.

They do. They've had that since the first Humble Bundle.

[dalekphalm]

They should add a slider for how much you want to give to them as well.

That's been a feature of humble bundle drive it's inception.

You get three sliders:

1. Developer

2. Humble bundle

3. Charity

And the default split gives a bit of the pie to all three.

[MrRavens]

That's been a feature of humble bundle drive it's inception.

You get three sliders:

1. Developer

2. Humble bundle

3. Charity

And the default split gives a bit of the pie to all three.

 Looks like I need to start putting a bunch more in the Humble Bundle slider.

[TetraSky]

Well the last couple bundles have been completely uninteresting, so this is understandable.

[ApolloX75]

I usually get a bundle or two per month but the last few; especially the mobile bundles, have completely failed to pique my interest.

Ah well, they'll regroup and hopefully be able to offer some more compelling deals soon.

Plus my 500+ Steam catalogue isn't helping any.

[brownninja97]

recently ive been more interested in bundlestars, they have been ripping it apart with some of their bundles. indiegala is doing hentai is always interesting

[Gale]

At least their Capcom bundle is not bad. D:

[deVIZtation]

I haven't bought a bundle from them since last year. I remember the EA bundle raked in several millions of dollars, but that all went to charity.

[rcarteraz]

Too ambitious indeed...

[pk-man]

no surprise since their recent bundles have been shit

[razor767]

Well I hope they recover.

[Mihle]

When I have bouth bundles, I have often done 10% game developer, 40% humble bundle and 50% charity or something.

 

I hope humble bundle does not die

[patrick3027]

Kinda sad, they seem like a bunch of great guys.

 

Recently bought the Total War bundle from them.

[Cwazywazy]

I used to buy a lot of the bundles as they usually included one or two games that I wanted. I haven't bought one in a long time because now the bundles suck, frankly.