Nice?
Sad to see one jerk ruins it for everyone. Weird that HB hasn't made a statement.
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I'm more interested in how they hacked the keys away from Humble. I mean, really, guessing all of the gift links? Isn't it some astronomical number to guess even one gift link, much less thousands. Wouldn't a hack like that have scooped up every unclaimed gift link? I know when I clicked for each reward Humble just gave me the claimed page right away and then I revealed the key and redeemed it.
Is the simpler explanation just thousands of fake accounts, from I'm assuming thousands of fake addresses, getting the store rewards and then claiming all the keys?
Personally, i never reveal the keys or create gift links until just before I redeem or gift them to someone. On the flip side, I'm guessing people reveal or create gift links to save time later or because they worry about the keys not being available later.
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hacked
Where is the source for this claim?
Is the simpler explanation just thousands of fake accounts, from I'm assuming thousands of fake addresses, getting the store rewards and then claiming all the keys?
If anything that is the way it was done. You don't need an address on HB at all.
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No source, just people commenting above about guessed gift links.
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Giftlinks on HB indeed have a history of weird issues but here this does not apply as the page with the game is linked to your account, so that it can't be mass hacked through guessing.
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I already got The Tiny Bang Story, if anyone who still do not own it, u can ask me, first come first serve basis.
*on the other hand, i always claim the reward after finished claiming the stamp, normally on fifth day, (thats how i would not be able to get Meadow, since the keys exhausted) and if something like this happened, might as well, claimed it asap, get the key revealed. I hope HB can fix this soon.
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RrEeeeeEEEeeEEeeEe
MY LAPTOP WAS DEAD YESTERDAY AND I'VE JUST FIXED IT (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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Hmmm, still waiting for them to get more Braveland keys. ☹
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It's sure something to see Humble run out of keys so fast this promotion, and yet also seeing a small handful of SG users giving away several copies of each of the promo keys. >.>
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There should have been a note on the site about people reselling.
I was disappointed not to get my fifth stamp today.
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Leave it to me!
I was unable to join because of a power failure. XD
There are days like that.
I was surprised and forgotten ...: p
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Rip i really been wanting Tiny Bang story for so long :(
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Apparently someone got thousands of keys from HB and put them on reselling sites. As a result, the reward for collecting 5 stamps, The Tiny Bang Story, was removed.
Please don't put up baseless conjecture like that. if that one guy was the reason then Meadow would be removed too and they would never offer any free game at all anymore.
Way more likely is that the maximum amount of keys that the developer of this one game allowed for this event has been exhausted.
The total number would rather be closer to 100k (or more) than 10K, so even if thousands of keys were taken, that alone would not be reason enough for such a reaction.
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If that was the case, the game would have stayed there as a reward and say out of keys. They already stated "while supplies last" so that wasn't the case. Something else happened for them to back down completely from giving out their promised reward.
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the game would have stayed there as a reward and say out of keys.
How do you know that?
already stated "while supplies last"
Yes that was exactly the case and supports my theory.They ran out of maximum allowed keys and that's it. How do you otherwise explain that Meadow is still there while it is affected just the same?
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It could have been removed at the request of the developer. But yeah, these are all just theories.
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Correct, that's a likely possibility as a reply to when humble asked the dev for more keys after the first allotted set has been claimed. I can very well see them (the dev) not having expected the high demand.
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They added a statement on the Meadow download page: "ATTENTION: We have run out of Steam keys for Meadow. We are getting more ASAP. We will have Steam keys for you as soon as they are available again! "
I hope they're true to their words..
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I expect so. The game “12 is better than 6” ran out of keys last time as well and it took them something like a week to restock but what is the relevance of that here?
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Once the keys were exhausted for every other game so far, the reward stayed there but had a message that keys were exhausted. The removal of the reward never happened before as far as I know. That means something else happened. The most likely candidates are problems with the keys or a serious security vulnerability that allowed some malicious persons to get more keys than intended. As a software engineer myself I incline towards the second theory. But as long as HB makes no official statement this is nothing other than speculation. I seriously doubt someone would set up 3000 steam accounts to claim some keys. Bear in mind that to actually get the key you need to link your steam account. I don't say it's impossible but it's improbable. The more likely theory is a security vulnerability that allows someone to get to the keys (most likely an SQL injection of some sort if I'm to guess but wtv).
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Once the keys were exhausted for every other game so far, the reward stayed there but had a message that keys were exhausted
There's a difference between the stock of keys that they had ready being exhausted and the amount of keys that the dev is willing to give in total, which is what I'm referring to.
I seriously doubt someone would set up 3000 steam accounts to claim some keys.
You are underestimating tech versed guys in low wage countries. Hint: yes they do that, in fact they already have. Card farming is a lot more profitable there.
a security vulnerability that allows someone to get to the keys
But again why is Meadow not affected by it then?
Look at Nimmy's post, he provides a way more likely explanation.
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the amount of keys that the dev is willing to give in total, which is what I'm referring to.
That's usually on a contractual basis and is pretty much entirely decided before the event starts, so I doubt there's any margin for error there.
You are underestimating tech versed guys in low wage countries. Hint: yes they do that, in fact they already have. Card farming is a lot more profitable there.
As I said, it's possible. Still I believe there's some flaw. Keep in mind companies usually never announce their vulnerabilities before patching them so the lack of information might sustain this theory.
But again why is Meadow not affected by it then?
Maybe because the keys are already exhausted so there's no risk involved.
Also having duplicates might suggest someone else activated the key even if it was genuinely sent by the dev in unactivated state, meaning somewhere along the line the key became compromised as a result of a security flaw.
I don't know and I honestly don't really care to sort HB problems or even identify them. They started acting up lately which pretty much supports the theory of them having some vulnerabilities. It would be a good practice to be open about it but until they make an official announcement everything is pure speculation :)
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I agree with you that the conjecture is baseless, but I don't think it's just that the max amount of keys has been exhausted.
I got a dupe key and, if you look for example at FreeGamesOnSteam on reddit, you'll see I'm far from the only one. So I suspect there was something wrong with the bunch of keys the dev gave (maybe the shipment was intercepted, or the keys were wrong in the first place, or something else, I don't know)
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Now that makes a lot more sense as an explanation and should much rather be noted in the post above.
Guess I better try my key then too..
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your theory of shipment interception seems probable, as i redeemed my key for tiny bang story immediately in the first few minutes when the 5th day struck and my key was redeemed fine with no problems.
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About Meander, i asked them about a refill on facebook.
"Greetings! We do not have an ETA at this time, but you will receive an automated email as soon as more are in stock."
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Glad I was able to grab my Tiny Bang Theory key in time.
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They should revoke all the keys that were compromised and reorganise the giveaway. That seems to be the only correct solution.
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What a shame, I was really looking forward to trying Tiny Bang Theory, guess it's time for Steamtrades now :/
Also:
ATTENTION: We have run out of Steam keys for Meadow. We are getting more ASAP. We will have Steam keys for you as soon as they are available again!
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Kinda odd since they said "while supplies last" and then get more supply. What?
Happy I got both keys just fine 0_o (I was checking Humble each hour for Meadow, didn't want to run into out of stock)
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Aw nooo, I only wanted Meadow, it's so cute! Well can't be helped, they tried!
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just typical the one time i mess up and miss a day its when i wanted a game XD guess ill try to win it or buy in future
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Thanks for posting this story. I was wondering what happened, as I was all set to claim Tiny Bang Story today! What a ruiner.
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Lorrie Today at 04:04
Hi there,
I'm sorry for the delay! Unfortunately, we ran out of The Tiny Bang Story game and the promotion was while supplies last. We’re incredibly sorry about this, but there’s nothing we can do. You can follow our announcements through several different mediums.
My reply:
I don't believe there's nothing you can do, since it says I should wait for a key!
"The Tiny Bang Story
Keys are temporarily exhausted for this product
As soon as we receive more keys, we will add them to this page and send you an email."
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This mission has now ended.
Round 3 - Over
Collect stamps and get free stuff here.
To make sure you collect the stamp go to the store page and click "Collect".
Note: Keys are reportedly exhausted.
Note: According to Kijame "Murderous Pursuits now has Trading Cards".
Round 3 games:
Round 2 - Over
Collect stamps and get free stuff here.
To make sure you collect the stamp go to the store page and click "Collect".
Collect 5 stamps and receive The Tiny Bang Story for FREE while supplies last!-> Removed as a reward.Note: Apparently someone got thousands of keys from HB and put them on reselling sites. The reward for collecting 5 stamps, The Tiny Bang Story, was removed.
Note: According to ninjagaijin HB claims to have ran out of The Tiny Bang Story keys.
Note: According to CronosZ, if you try to redeem the keys from the last round you get the message "The key for this product has expired. The redemption deadline is September 13th, 2018 @ 10:00 am Pacific. You have 0 days left!"
Note:
For owners of Shelter Complete Edition: all 3 DLC for Meadow were added to Shelter Complete Edition. Check Mihey3Z's comment here.According to Mihey3Z it was a likely a bug and the content was removed afterwards.Round 2 games:
Round 1 - Over
Collect stamps and get free stuff here.
To make sure you collect the stamp go to the store page and click "Collect".
Round 1 games:
Event description:
*The 10% discount coupon for Humble Monthly is valid only for new subscribers and can be used until:
As I recommended here and per request here, you are advised to: Always reveal your keys and save them elsewhere for later use. Otherwise you might not be able to do so at a later time.
I won't reply to everyone for the sake of thread brevity. You're welcome and hope you have fun. Cheers.
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