Interesting note. If you change the custom value to under $1 you get the following message:
"Warning! Please note that orders under $1.00 will ONLY receive the soundtracks and will NOT receive the games! "
This seems to go against the spirit of "pay what you want"? Not that $1.00 is really different from $0.01, but I'm pretty sure that for indy bundles before you could go as low as you wanted? I didn't think to try before though, I guess. Can anybody confirm?
They did that to work around a problem where people were paying $.01 just to get a steam key.
Adding a game to a steam account "validates it" and this can be abused in certain scenarios. For example, steam sometimes has events where you can enter contests, and people were creating hundreds of fake entries for almost no money.
Edit: just to be clear, for other bundles you can pay $.01 and get the DRM free games but not the steam keys (which require a payment >= $1). Here, since the games require steam, the minimum price is $1.
Some people were paying multiple times $0.01, using this as a vector to spam the steam key generation servers.
So they have asked (since few bundles) to pay more than $1 when you want to get te steam keys. And since this Bundle is steam-only ... The minimal amount to get the games is $1.
You have always had to pay at least a dollar to get Steam keys, no matter the bundle. I think it has something to do with Steam's requirements, but I don't know that.
No, the first few bundles gave away keys for any price. They changed it during a bundle where this was a big problem with a contest that Steam was holding at the same time.
Also interesting to see that (at the time of this writing) the average is only $5.50 which is a lot lower than the averages I've seen for previous bundles.
That's probably because it's Windows-only. In the Humble Bundles, Windows users consistently give less than Mac users, who consistently give less than Linux users. Most bundles are cross-platform, so the average is higher.
It's only about a dollar, maybe two, lower than average anyway.
"Warning! Please note that orders under $1.00 will ONLY receive the soundtracks and will NOT receive the games! "
This seems to go against the spirit of "pay what you want"? Not that $1.00 is really different from $0.01, but I'm pretty sure that for indy bundles before you could go as low as you wanted? I didn't think to try before though, I guess. Can anybody confirm?