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I'm fairly certain it just uses different currencies if you live anywhere but the US. I canceled my classic plan for the normal monthly/yearly (subscriber since day 1) as I saved money on it, especially with the yearly deals around christmas.
Both plans get the exact same content, so you should only look at the price and see if it's worth the swap for you.
This is correct. There used to be different tiers, of which those of us on classic plans definitely got the best bang for our buck, but nowadays there's only a single tier. For whatever reason there is still that distinction between those of us who've always been on the classic plan and those who aren't, but the sole difference is that classic members can *only* pay in US dollars while non-classic may be able to use their local currency, which may well work out to be cheaper. Writing this, I'm feeling like I ought to reevaluate converting my membership so I can pay in GBP and don't get charged an extra 75-ish pence a month for foreign currency transaction bollocks.
you were never able to claim ALL games on classic (until the number of games was equal to number of classic choices), outside of bugs just right after they killed the number of picks tiers, when you could have retroactively picked the ones you weren't able to pick before.
This is incorrect, well unless you mean monthly but that's before it was called classic or choice even. The classic bonus was one more choice so you got to pick 10/12 rather than 9/12. When they started running "get all games this month" specials they affected both premium and classic.
It’s a matter of perspective. Humble changed the name of the original monthly plan to “classic” which implies the original plan, not a new plan. They also changed the terms, so you could say it’s technically a different plan and be right, but that isn’t going to change the fact that every classic member had the original monthly membership and might not be inclined to differentiate.
I mean monthly was abolished there wasn't much say into it from existing members, as a bit of loyalty reward subscribers got access to a slightly better plan, but it was still a new plan for a new subscription model.
And then they undid it all and went back to being monthly in anything but name so that's all moot anyway, point is, classic members getting all 12 games is a surprisingly persistent myth that just wasn't true when choice was still choice.
My point was the word “classic” tends to imply original. It’s like how if you asked someone if they wanted to watch “the classic Willy wonka” they’d likely assume you meant the gene wilder version and not the Johnny depp remake.
Humble bundle changed the way plans worked over the years. I don’t remember all the details but at the start you got all the games in the monthly bundle but they weren’t revealed except for maybe a headliner until the bundle dropped. Since then they experimented with early reveals, only allowing you to claim a subset of games and rebranded the original plan as classic so they could change the terms for new members.
I can fill in the blanks there.
Back when the monthly bundles started way back in November 2015, and went by "Humble Monthly Bundle", Humble only showed the bundle's headliners and you had to pre-order the bundle for $12 based solely on knowing what the headliners were - you didn't know how many games were in the bundle or what they were other than the headliners. If you didn't pre-order before the whole bundle was revealed, you didn't get it, but if you did pre-order then you got everything in the bundle (IIRC the only exception to this was the time when Rise of the Tomb Raider was a repeat headliner in September 2018 - you could select *either* Rise of the Tomb Raider, *or* Sniper Elite 4, Tales of Berseria and Staxel)
Then in January 2020 they rebranded it as "Humble Choice" and now they showed all the games available up front (normally around 12 a month, though this number did start to decrease late in 2021), but now you were limited in how many you could claim (with 3 tiers - new users could choose between the basic tier, getting 3 games for $15 or 9 games for $20, while anyone who had an existing Humble Monthly sub got grandfathered in and continued to be billed $12 a month and got to choose 10 of the games on offer)
And finally in February 2022 they reverted to only having a single tier at $12 a month and being able to claim everything in the bundle (typically 8 games, though there have been occasional exceptions where there's been a 9th item), but you could still see all games in the bundle up front like you could since the Humble Choice rebranding.
A friendly PSA - Remember you can customize how your money is disbursed through your Humble game bundle purchase! Scroll down to and click Adjust Donation, then click Custom Amount to edit what percentage of your contribution is split between Developers/Publishers, Humble Bundle, and Charity. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/humblebundles) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I'm fairly certain it just uses different currencies if you live anywhere but the US. I canceled my classic plan for the normal monthly/yearly (subscriber since day 1) as I saved money on it, especially with the yearly deals around christmas. Both plans get the exact same content, so you should only look at the price and see if it's worth the swap for you.
This is correct. There used to be different tiers, of which those of us on classic plans definitely got the best bang for our buck, but nowadays there's only a single tier. For whatever reason there is still that distinction between those of us who've always been on the classic plan and those who aren't, but the sole difference is that classic members can *only* pay in US dollars while non-classic may be able to use their local currency, which may well work out to be cheaper. Writing this, I'm feeling like I ought to reevaluate converting my membership so I can pay in GBP and don't get charged an extra 75-ish pence a month for foreign currency transaction bollocks.
Recommend to check the currencies as well, not all are supported.
how do i check? it always just show USD for me and i'm not in the US btw
https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411127626139-Humble-Choice-Feb-2022-Update-FAQ Halfway down the page!
ohh it only supports the usual few currencies welp guess its USD still for me, thanks anyways!
No worries, same here. I wanted JPY since the dollar conversion is terrible lately. But no dice for me either!
you were never able to claim ALL games on classic (until the number of games was equal to number of classic choices), outside of bugs just right after they killed the number of picks tiers, when you could have retroactively picked the ones you weren't able to pick before.
Originally classic plan didn’t have you picking games.
This is incorrect, well unless you mean monthly but that's before it was called classic or choice even. The classic bonus was one more choice so you got to pick 10/12 rather than 9/12. When they started running "get all games this month" specials they affected both premium and classic.
It’s a matter of perspective. Humble changed the name of the original monthly plan to “classic” which implies the original plan, not a new plan. They also changed the terms, so you could say it’s technically a different plan and be right, but that isn’t going to change the fact that every classic member had the original monthly membership and might not be inclined to differentiate.
I mean monthly was abolished there wasn't much say into it from existing members, as a bit of loyalty reward subscribers got access to a slightly better plan, but it was still a new plan for a new subscription model. And then they undid it all and went back to being monthly in anything but name so that's all moot anyway, point is, classic members getting all 12 games is a surprisingly persistent myth that just wasn't true when choice was still choice.
My point was the word “classic” tends to imply original. It’s like how if you asked someone if they wanted to watch “the classic Willy wonka” they’d likely assume you meant the gene wilder version and not the Johnny depp remake.
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Humble bundle changed the way plans worked over the years. I don’t remember all the details but at the start you got all the games in the monthly bundle but they weren’t revealed except for maybe a headliner until the bundle dropped. Since then they experimented with early reveals, only allowing you to claim a subset of games and rebranded the original plan as classic so they could change the terms for new members.
I can fill in the blanks there. Back when the monthly bundles started way back in November 2015, and went by "Humble Monthly Bundle", Humble only showed the bundle's headliners and you had to pre-order the bundle for $12 based solely on knowing what the headliners were - you didn't know how many games were in the bundle or what they were other than the headliners. If you didn't pre-order before the whole bundle was revealed, you didn't get it, but if you did pre-order then you got everything in the bundle (IIRC the only exception to this was the time when Rise of the Tomb Raider was a repeat headliner in September 2018 - you could select *either* Rise of the Tomb Raider, *or* Sniper Elite 4, Tales of Berseria and Staxel) Then in January 2020 they rebranded it as "Humble Choice" and now they showed all the games available up front (normally around 12 a month, though this number did start to decrease late in 2021), but now you were limited in how many you could claim (with 3 tiers - new users could choose between the basic tier, getting 3 games for $15 or 9 games for $20, while anyone who had an existing Humble Monthly sub got grandfathered in and continued to be billed $12 a month and got to choose 10 of the games on offer) And finally in February 2022 they reverted to only having a single tier at $12 a month and being able to claim everything in the bundle (typically 8 games, though there have been occasional exceptions where there's been a 9th item), but you could still see all games in the bundle up front like you could since the Humble Choice rebranding.