Hello Everyone,
Glad you are enjoying my latest article, as usual. Just wanted to clear up one thing that some seem to be confused about. Those of you who are familiar with Humble Bundle probably know that you can adjust how much of the money you pay goes where. The game developer can choose how much goes to them, but you can change it using three sliders. This time however, EA did something most do not and chose not to take any of money. That is why there are only two sliders instead of three. Humble Bundle takes a small portion of cash, but Humble Bundle actually makes most of its money off games that aren't sold in bundles. It is good usually to send a fair amount to the developers when possible as that encourages them to participate in future Humble Bundle sales, and it still makes a sizable amount of money for charities.
For example, Humble Origin Bundle 2 currently reports over 2.1 million dollars has been raised. When I purchased the bundle the Humble Tip was only around $0.60, the price varies as I said, but assuming around that percentage of the cost goes to Humble Bundle and the rest goes to charity, roughly 88% makes it to charity. This adds up to over 1.84 million so far being donated with five days to go.
You might not like EA or Origin, but that's a pretty large donation and it wouldn't be possible for Humble Bundle to raise this money for charity if not for the game developers putting their games in the sale at such a cheap price. Having some people try Origin isn't so much to ask in return.