I'll get it for Nuclear Dawn. But they aren't exactly selling the rest of the games on me, it must be said.

Yeah, just saw it. Phew!

What's up on Desura that fits the description?

Same. I bought the first bundle right when it launched and at that point they weren't clear that it was Steam only. I thought I'd be getting Steam-free Sanctum.

It's annoying, I bet they could get the developers to do DRM-free builds if they bothered to request it.

They would if they were selling 100k-200k of those bundles.

With 27k they don't have the Humble Power.

Yeah... I don't think their pre-order model is very well thought out. It usually takes quite a while for the price to rise above $4. I think it would make more sense to offer preorders at the starting price or less, considering it's a gamble at that point because you don't know what the games are.

You're right though, they don't have enough influence yet.

I think they would sell more and make more money if the pre-orders were either cheaper or not 'blind'.

Another multiplayer-only FPS, a 2D platformer, a puzzle and yet another shmup?

Not really interested, thanks.

I disagree.

First of all, it's 3$/euro for 4 games. There's no much space to make them cheaper. They have no reason to make more sales = more money, if all those money would go to credit card companies or paypal.

4 bucks is not much, and some ppl like to have surprise.

There are many ppl who don't care that pre-order price is higher than normal minimum price, as they pay more than minimum. If someone pays recommended price (5$/euro), he doesn't care about that.

Also, in every Royal Bundle there was at least one game I always wanted to try, but its retail price was too high or other reason. All other games I treat as a free bonus.

For $4, and getting at least four games and a few bonuses, I don't really think you can call this a "gamble." Hell, Nuclear Dawn alone is $19.99, so four bucks for ND and three other games seems perfectly reasonable to me.

How would the Steam database offer any answers? IR gives individual game keys, and 1 uniquely-named bundle key.

The price is fine it's just that there is no huge incentive to preorder since the post-launch price rarely goes above that and if it does, not by much. The reason I haven't bought any in the past is because I've either owned or just not been interested in more than one of the games included.

Nuclear Dawn is okay but the community is small (and shrinking) and they just didn't pull off the RTS/FPS blend that well. The other games could literally be anything (not already in a previous bundle): puzzler, 2D platformer, shmup.

I have Steam codes from previous Royale Bundles of games I already own. They are:

Breath of Death 7
Cthulu Saves the World
Runespell Overture
Eulforia

PM me if you want them.

Edit: Steam Keys are all gone.
I have Desura Keys for any game from bundles 1+2 if people want them.

There are REALLY dudes who pay only 4$ for 4 games?

That all whining "the price is never higher than preorder price" is something I don't understand. You preorder not to get the games the cheapest price possible, you preorder to support developers (no matter who they are) and indie gaming, mostly.

I think people trying to save a buck by not preordering is crazy unless money is tight. The point is to pay what you can. They should just raise the minimum price for preorder and live sales to $3.99. I pre ordered it by the way. I always preordered since they started preorders. The extra bounus is always nice.

Ok, perhaps I didn't express myself very well. I kind of meant that there's little incentive to preorder. Perhaps rather than make the pre-order cheaper, they should raise the starting price to $4?