So recently I bought a game from the Humble Bundle Store and made a giveaway for it:
👉 Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2

At first, I planned to review the key and send it directly.
Then I realized the game has a region lock — so I redeemed it myself, and it turned out to be a SEA key.

After that, I did some research and found out Humble offers a giftable link option at checkout.
I tried it — no region lock warning, nothing at all.

However, when the giveaway winner (from Canada) tried to claim the game through that link, he got this error:

“Sorry, but this product is not available for purchase in this country. Your product key has not been redeemed.”

Like… what the heck?
The store should warn about that during checkout, right?
(Especially since bundles and Choice pages do show region restrictions when clicking Create Gift Link.)

I even found a similar issue here:
🔗 Reddit - Why is it always region locked?

From what I can tell, I initially thought the gift link would generate a key based on the receiver’s region — but apparently, it doesn’t.

So, I’m curious:
How do you guys check whether a Humble key is global or region-locked before buying?
Are keys from the Humble Store usually global, or are only some games like that?

1 day ago

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I recommend to buy keys somewhere else than humble, cause they don't have proper region lists and if you dare ask support, you will be threaten by ban - that was my personal experience, when I wanted to buy Hogwarts legacy for full price in their store and suppord guy wrote me their ToS doesn't allow any giveaways or using keys in contests and they will have to ban me. But I have been saved by miracle sentense "Thats against laws set by EU".

1 day ago
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That's bad, which site you usally buy keys?

1 day ago
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My favourite is gamesplanet, cause it has mostly global keys or written list of blocked countries. Then greenmangaming or Fanatical, but on Fanatical is pain to list through regions.

1 day ago
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Fanatical seems ok, but the UI regions list manual click through each country is so bad, I am doing some userscript to automatically get the region lock list.

1 day ago
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I contacted gamesplanet once about a game, they told me they just don't indicate region-locks usually, but you can ask them freely on a specific game and they will answer.

About greenmangaming and fanatical, we talked about that with sensualshakti once and sometimes, well the locks provided are just not accurate. For example here War Hospital key was global, GMG listed it locked.

The only way to be sure is from the subID. Using JMM72 method on a game you already own on your account (not a method if you don't own the game, as it would redeem the game on your account)

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https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/543236-region-restriction-checker
A useful script to check the Fanatical restriction, get it from a cool guy from my group

1 day ago
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Man, that's terrible.

1 day ago
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Yeah, that's why there's no point in giftable link just claim the key! (and for the giveaway send the key instead of this link to waste winners time for no reason)

1 day ago
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yes, what annoy me is when we create giftable link from the bundles or Humble Choice, there is still a restriction warning, but the Humble Store doesn't have, what a weird decision from them.

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