What a weird set of circumstances. Thanks for the info.

I wrote to HB and publisher and both refuse to provide more key for this bundle

Damn, that's crazy. People should seriously consider some kind of lawsuit against these publishers too (if they don't end up providing keys/legitimate compensation in the end). That could work better, because the average publisher probably has way less money than the investment group who owns Humble Bundle (Ziff Davis).

From the publisher's perspective:

We're a publisher and regret our game being devalued from excess keys on the market after we made a ton of money participating in a bundle, therefore we want to retroactively revoke keys that were not marketed with an expiration date.

From Humble Bundle's perspective:

We want to sell more games and bundles, so reducing the key supply is a win-win scenario.

In any other industry, this behavior could land people in jail, but it seems like they think it's different because these are digital products that have historically been marketed towards kids. The issue for them is that a lot of these "kids" have grown up and don't take kindly to this kind of fraudulent behavior.

Realistically, this situation could be the result of a few things:

• A corrupt backroom deal between Humble Bundle and the publisher to revoke keys and increase a game's value by decreasing the supply of secondhand keys (providing Humble Bundle with compensation)

• Humble Bundle never actually had the keys to begin with (even though they sold the keys). This is less likely, because people have reported that their revealed keys were unrevealed, meaning Humble Bundle had the keys, but then revoked them/gave them back to the publisher so they could reduce the supply of keys on the market.

To make matters worse, I see some on Reddit defending this behavior, meaning Humble Bundle/Ziff Davis may have bot accounts to influence opinion e.g. "why did you wait so long, it's your fault" etc. victim blaming, as if it's okay to revoke purchased keys that haven't been activated. Imagine if Valve was just like "too many people bought this game on sale, so we're going to revoke it on a lot of people's Steam accounts so they have to re-buy it at a higher price."

Yes, I saw someone from Germany on Reddit say they could get a Civ VI key. However, I was unable to get one while checking my bundle. Seems very regional.