Humble choice key gifting question

Sure, you can create GA and then send the link to activate;)

I always recommend to claim the key and then to create a giveaway with the key. There are suggestions that HB links can be tracked and some users have had issues. Some links also sell out without the buyer knowing. As far as I know, keys cannot be tracked.

Well like you know, some people reported that were banned from HB for use giftlinks, I'm not sure was is the situation right now but maybe, the best option is use keys, btw have a nice holiday too and happy new year

Welcome back :o)

Because you took a long break, be aware that nowadays a lot of autojoiners infest the public GAs, special the ones till level 3.
So if you plan to do public GAs and don't want to feed the owners of this autojoiner accounts, that use sometimes more as one account, then i recommend at least level 4 and to check your winners, in all cases, with sgtools.

http://www.sgtools.info/activation
http://www.sgtools.info/multiple-wins

If someone have red marks there request a reroll and put the link(s) into the support ticket.

Infos and tests, made from other users:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/2RCI0/werewolf-the-apocalypse-heart-of-the-forest
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Q0WKE/farnham-fables (The interesting stats)

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/oEt99/vendetta-curse-of-ravens-cry (public GA, Entries: 2,038)
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/9PxYF/vendetta-curse-of-ravens-cry (invite only GA that was posted in the description of the public one, Entries: 63)

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/HSRvZ/1-ride (public GA, lvl 4, Entries: 167)
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/buWfY/1-ride (invite only GA that was posted in the description of the public one, lvl 4, Entries: 6)

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/4PoIq/doom-eternal (public GA, lvl 0, 9338)
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/RDeBM/doom-eternal-deluxe-edition (invite only GA that was posted, as link, in the description of the public one, lvl 0, Entries: 1338)

I wish you the best for the new year.

Always use Humble keys for giveaways and you should encounter no issues. Also, if you ever have to contact Humble Support, don't mention you're giving away the keys - they tend to frown on that, and may close your account.

As everyone else has said best to use keys, though I have 2 things to add.

1. Supposedly the theory behind Humble banning accounts is that of course Humble can see you creating a gift link, but with a key only the game developer can see who redeems said key, and all their records would show is that the key was assigned to Humble Store/Bundle, they can't tell X user from Humble bought the bundle and now Y account has redeemed the key.

2. Even though you should use a key, do not do so instantly, instead it is best to click Gift first and then later key. This is to reveal any region restrictions that the game may have. If you click key you will only be given a key (which is assigned based on your region when you purchased it), but if you click Gift you will either be told to enter email (in which case there are no region restrictions), so cancel and reveal the key, or a window will popup that will tell you a region restriction is in place so here is a list of countries that can redeem. Now create your giveaway using the region restriction information provided, go back to Humble, cancel (close) the region restriction window, reveal the key, and do what you usually do (most now paste the key into the giveaway but some wait till the giveaway is over before doing so).