Rethinking humble bundles

I've never offered a Humble Bundle over SG, but I have given away the full URLs to my friends and spouse. I see what you mean about it feeling cheapened, and I think from a developer standpoint it's not something you necessarily want but it's also something you do want. And that's because, it means exposure that they might not otherwise have as well. And what I mean by that is, if someone would have never spent money on something, and got a free copy that was Desura, or Steam, or whatever exclusive and from playing that they developed a fan loyalty -- I'm sure the devs would understand.

For them, developing a following who buys future games outweighs the idea of people who buy one copy that they can give away up to 3 times or whatever. Just consider the fact that the humble bundles site gives away copies at any price with no minimum value aside from $0.01. They ASK for at least $1, but they allow you to get it for what is essentially free, on an honour system but also because the developers who allow HIB to give their games away do so under the pretense that someone might like a game so much they buy future titles by the same developer.

But on the other hand, sometimes it's the difference between looking a gift horse in the mouth man. For example, I had a real bro give me a bundle #1 steam key on Bitgamer, and it was like "HOLY SHEISSE" cause I know they're not free. I was very happy, and still am. I didn't feel cheated, or feel the need to call him a jerk or some crap like that because he gave me a key. I won a Humble Frozenbyte bundle on here, and got an actual URL for it and was quite happy with that, but even there I would have been fine if it was just a steam key.

So I mean, it's not all black and white. You see it as people giving away what you consider stolen copies, the developers who know this kind of thing can happen see it as a chance of recruiting future fans. I know that if my game was part of a Humble Bundle and someone was giving away spare copies of it, I would hope that people enjoyed my game free of guilt but possibly developing a love for my games so that future games would be on their radar when they pop up.

Just saying.

So, is this just your idea or will this be actively enforced from now on?
I hope it will be, but you should add it to the FAQ first.

I think this is about the whole "giving away keys that arent for steam" IE the onlive and desera. This is steam gifts...The word steam is in it. All giveaways that promote none steam redeemable codes (Aside from specific games designated by the mods...Such as minecraft I believe) should be either deleted or marked as not received. Essentially what is happening is if someone payed 9 dollars for the pack, and has a Desera, Onlive and Steam key, they are correctly using SG as a way to turn one 9 dollar bundle into a 27 dollar bundle. IE 3 keys, 3 times the "value"

Personally, I say to make it so that if it isnt a steam code being given, that it shouldnt be allowed. Exceptions being on games that come with one redeemable code, IE minecraft. If the product upon purchase doesnt come with one single code(Be it steam redeemable or not) then it shouldnt be able to be given away.

This allows people who buy lets say the FS bundle for over the average amount, thusly obtaining FB bundle...Not to say cults new way would be bad, but from what I can tell, he is trying to say "If you dont give all, you cant give any" so in other words there is a wasted FB code.

Thats my take. Steam only codes, or games with only ONE code upon purchase.