Am about to gift that game from this bundle - did Indiegala finally supply a working key for you? I could gift it as a guaranteed giveaway on Indiegala's own site I guess.

Edit: Just gifted the game on Indiegala to avoid any nastiness with the key. Theoretically, Indiegala should solve this problem as the bundle is still younger than two months, therefore the keys are guaranteed according to Indiegala's website.

:/

In my opinion, the bundle world started to break apart when Valve introduced the "profile features limited" restriction. Nowadays it's extremely rare for a game to actually get out of this restriction, unless the publisher is an accredited one or it happens that the game actually meets the sales threshold (which is very difficult, considering the sheer amount of games released every day, and thus the big competition). With these games being pretty much useless for collectors (they don't give a +1 or achievement counts, they can't be featured on profile showcases etc), they're basically useless to own - they don't do anything any more.

On top of that, limited games can generate only a certain amount of keys. Without keys, you can't offer a Happy Hour on IndieGala, or a pre-purchase on Groupees. Without these offers, who will still want to buy your bundle, full price? Sure, there will still be people to do that, but much less than before and in the end it might not even be worth the effort of contacting developers and finding 10 different games to bundle together.

DIG is another kind of creature: they afford to spam one bundle per day because they sell only a few copies of each bundle (but enough to keep them floating I assume, otherwise they wouldn't continue doing this). The games bundled are usually bought from cheaper Russian retail stores (that DIG then bundles and sells at 3 times the price); they aren't even allowed to sell most of these games (since they do not get the keys directly from the developer through an agreement). There are exceptions though, and once in a while DIG actually contacts the developers and has a contract with them.

Which means that only accredited publishers would still agree to bundle their games, more or less. But with so many of their keys landing on the grey market, is it really in their advantage to bundle games or doing so would cause an abrupt decrease in sales? (less sales from the Steam store, and the cut that they get from bundle stores is probably rather small).

These are my thoughts and personal opinions, keep in mind that I might be wrong though.