Just got this notification from Humble about another price increase.

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[+] -11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

They aren't losing business if it costs them money to have you as a customer

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago*

    They are losing business, because revenue goes down.

    They will negotiate the prices they pay publishers for a set of keys to use in humble choice to mean they get their 15% cut of the revenue. If a publisher sets the price too high, they'll go elsewhere until they can get their margin.

    If they lose ~25% of their subscribers over a ~40% price hike, they will be right back where they started in terms of profit—which is a place where they would consider hiking the price and losing customers.

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