Indie Royale has decided to do a complete overhaul of their ordering process. From the schedule to how you buy is going to change significantly.
In an interesting open letter to the fans the Indie Royale staff laid out significant changes. To quote them they have “been much_more_successful than we ever anticipated”. They are having some difficult issues such as keeping up with demand for Steam and Desura keys/downloads.
But you’re probably saying “just get to the changes”, well here they are:
- They will no longer be releasing a bundle every two weeks. The schedule will now probably be set to their convenience. The really Really Big Bundle is going to launch after Thanksgiving.
- They are now opening up pre-orders. They will be priced at between a USD of $5 and a minimum of $3.99. They didn’t say that the official pricing system will change. The official launch will start at $2.99.
- They will guarantee at least 4 games in each bundle. This is quite good as you can be sure you will get your $5 worth of games.
- They also mentioned that a huge number of Indie Developers now want in on this project. This means that the “Really Big Bundle” may changed to the “undetermined size bundle with massively popular games”. This wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing at all.
- They’re also going to work on getting more Mac and Linux titles. Rejoice, Linux users, highly efficient operating system will get some more highly efficient games to play!
We will, as usual, keep you informed on new bundles. We’re quite excited ourselves to see what is in the Really Big Bundle. This is also the perfect opportunity to mention that we two full copies of the Difficult Second Bundle sitting around. We will be having some sort of contest for each of these. As for the actual Indie Royale site, you can check out the letter here.
