As a lot of Humble keys end up on grey market a second account with the same payment method would raise suspicion that you're a key seller, the worst abomination in the known universe obviously.
Seriously though, Humble is between a rock and a hard place there as they want to make as much money as possible but if too much of their bundle keys end up on grey market sites publishers/developers become unhappy as their precious games are sold for a song.
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Because games flooding grey market for cheap is such a perfect scenario for the publisher right? Why are you trying to make key sellers here the victim? Of course publishers/devs dont want their games to be flooded in grey market. Why would they ever agree to sell them in a bundle in the first place if their game pretty much gets devalued from being listed for cheap in every grey market afterwards?
This is literally why we cant have nice things.
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Oh my god, I nearly expected someone coming out and critizising me. I mean either publishers and Humble are very stupid people or what's more plausible they take the fact that substantial amounts of bundle keys are re-sold into account.
The latter seems more probable to me as no rationally acting business can be so naive to think their unilaterally established rules are respected by everyone in the market.
No dev/publisher in their right mind will bundle a game when there's is still high demand by customers paying full price. They offer their games in bundles when they are in the "long end" phase of sales where no substantial earnings will materialize at full prize anymore.
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And whats your point? Making drugs illegal also doesnt magically make people stop using them. Should we now just stop enforcing rules?
Doesnt change the fact that keys flooding the grey market is not something publishers like. Sure, games are put in a bundle when sales are low. Does that mean they should not care where and for how much the keys are being sold? And should they not care for setting up rules? Even if there always will be people who abuse the rules, doesnt mean they should outright not care about it.
My point is - why the fuck are you making resellers and grey market some poor victim in all this. Such a butthurt comment for something that can happen when abusing rules. Do you want them to remove the rule and ignore people reselling and trading? Sorry if I am misunderstanding your comment here, but this gives me flashbacks of those poor sods who get all butthurt over being banned for trading... which is against their rules..... Dont break the rules - simple as shit.
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To be clear about one thing: I stopped buying from Humble the moment Ziff Davies took over the operation. No, I don't see re-sellers as victims. I see a fair bit of hypocrisy in Humble's rules as they know perfectly well part of their customers don't care about them and their power to enforce them is limited at best.
In my view those rules serve more to avoid riling up Steam and to keep appearances.
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Only if your card is not already linked to the mobile app - or at least here in the UK
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This is the method to go about it yeah.
I made a second account in the past to manage a friend's purchases since he didn't (and still doesn't) have a bank card that will allow him to make online purchases.
As such, I would make the purchases. It wasn't long until Humble blocked my account, and with it, my bank card, even if I use virtual cards that branch off of my main card, they somehow find out and block them as well.
At least I can still get the humble choice through recurring payments, but I can't buy anything else from their storefront.
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Why couldn't the other person have a credit card then? I mean what bank doesn't allow credit cards?
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They, and their parents, are scared that someone will steal their banking information and do online transactions with it.
So they just send me the money to do online transactions for them.
Their bank accounts literally have online transactions turned off.
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well, not really. Happened to my dad. He cancelled his card back then and went without a card for a while.
Now we all use burner cards separate from our main accounts to do online transactions. Keep a really low balance on them and top them up when we need to make a purchase.
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Lemme give a bit more context, they stay in a little town about an hour away from a mall, and there's only about 1,000 people in the town.
So they're in a countryside town away from everything and find a lot of normal internet things scary, haha.
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hi im wondering if i already bought teh humble choice from one account and i make another account but use the same credit card can they track that and potentially ban me?
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