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Not quite yet. But, the prevalence of Steam-only bundles is definitely worrying me.
Well I used to go into bundle withdrawal (GIMME MOAR BUNDLES) ;-) Apparently bundle sites listened to me and well you know that saying? The one that goes "Be careful what you wish for!"? Yeah - that.

Then OMG, it was check ALL the bundles! IR, IG, HB, BS, BIAB, and oh don't forget GP's and even MoiMoo. Then they started Happy Hour and then "Weekly" and "Monday"and faster and more and - gah! Bundle OVERLOAD!

I still sometimes do the rounds and check count-downs but mostly I am tired and uninspired and frankly, bored with most of the recent offerings the past couple of months. And I fear I'll never find good homes for the three Millennium 1 keys on my gift list...

Oh and recently, Steam crashes have caused me to re-evaluate my blase stance about drm, so I've been hunting down all those drm-free downloads I own (Hey, the Steam version of The Whispered World refused to run for me at all yesterday despite major troubleshooting endeavors - I finally dl'd my drm-free copy and wonders-never-cease - it runs perfectly! Daedalic peeps - you gotta fix that - this is the second game in a row that has the same stupid, non-optimized or buggy for Steam issues).

I guess the market will continue to be over-saturated for a while until sales figures fall off for many sites. Sadly, what used to be a really good marketing-tactic for devs has turned into several kinds of nightmares - financially and administratively - so I don't think many of the games I'm really wanting are eventually going to end up being bundled and now I'm a-hoping and a-praying for MOAR GOG sales ;-)
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cmdr_flashheart: Like?
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dracomage1996: Books, pen and paper rpgs

For Pen and Paper RPGs I use Bundle Of Holding.

For books, Storybundle
Of course! I seldom use those myself, so I forget they exist ^^
Not really. I've never been a huge bundle purchaser. I got into it with Humble, bought some from Indie Royale and Groupees, and that's about it. IR and Groupees have declined some in my estimation, but the Humble Indie Bundles are still reliably good. If there's a problem it's that bundles are so prevalent that you rack up quite a backlog in no time. Back when the HIBs were coming out one or two a year, you could play through the whole bundle and have time left over to play a few other non-bundled games, but with the constant bundle rotation now you have to pick particular favorites of whatever bundles you get and probably let the rest slide into the rest of your backlog. It's an embarrassment of riches.
I never got much interest since most of them were never anything but glorified Steam sales. I have, however, lost interest in Humble, since it, too, has become nothing but another Steam store front. Since I don't allow the Steam virus near my computer...
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cmdr_flashheart: You're satiated, is all. Also, I think the problem is that a lot of the games which could be bundled, have been, so that's why we see lots of repeats.

Overall, however, I love bundles. I would like more GOG bundles ^^
Considering how long it's been since GOG has done the Interplay bundle, chances are that they've decided that bundles don't really work for them.

Fine by me, since I prefer to pick and choose what I wish to buy, anyway.
I lost interest the moment they stopped offering DRM free games.
Never had any interest in the first place. :-)
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Gandos:
So..a bundle your own GOG bundle :D Would be cool.
In terms of bundles, I have only ever bought humble indie bundles.

I didn't buy the last HIB, even though it had a number of games I was interested in. I find their mac ports to often be terrible and I generally try to pay a reasonable amount for the games I want (a little less than when they go on sale here), so I figure I would rather buy from gog and at least get ports that work (or refund) and not buy games I don't want or have game downloads on two different distribution platforms.

It would have to be a very good bundle for me to consider picking it up. I wouldn't write it off but its unlikely.