When comparing Fanatical (formerly Bundle Stars) vs Humble Bundle, the Slant community recommends Humble Bundle for most people. In the question“What are the best online stores to purchase PC games cheaply?” Humble Bundle is ranked 3rd while Fanatical (formerly Bundle Stars) is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Humble Bundle is:
Users are not only giving to a charity and choosing the portion of the price they pay to a charity but they can also select from a list of charities to donate to. Thus giving some control to the consumer as to what kind of organizations they support.
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Pros
Pro A large variety of bundles
Like other bundle sites, Fanatical often offers a large variety of bundles for not only games but also popular software and educational media at very low prices.
Pro Numerous bundles available at one time
The is a wide selection of bundles available at once, making for a good selection of genres or themes for each bundle. This way you are not limited to one selection of games that might not appeal.
Pro The Store has actual discounts
Unlike a lot of other similar sites, Fanaticals store lists games with quite good discounts. Meanwhile some other bundle sites commonly don't discount more than 5% below Steam prices.
Pro Support choice of charity
Users are not only giving to a charity and choosing the portion of the price they pay to a charity but they can also select from a list of charities to donate to. Thus giving some control to the consumer as to what kind of organizations they support.
Pro Pay what you want
The way Humble Bundle works is that it is donation based in that you can pay what you want for the bundle, with the minimum being a dollar. There are separate packages in each bundle that also ask for a minimum price, which depends on the "beat the average" price which is what on average has been donated so far..
Pro Supporting the Devs
Just as a user can choose how much to give to a charity out of the price given, they can also choose how much to give to the devs. So if one does not feel like supporting a charity for a certain bundle they can choose to give all of the funds to the developers.
Cons
Con No 1$ tier
Bundles are generally 6 or more bundled games with a total % discount.
Con Limited to what games they are willing to carry
The bundles have the support of the devs to be published, which means there may be certain devs that do not want to have their games in a bundle, which limits how many games are available on their store and in their bundles.