Holiday event has ended and now I receive the messages from my winners that they cannot redeem the games:

"Cannot Redeem
We're sorry, this gift is not claimable in your current country, and can't be applied to your account."

Yet two of the games were not supposed to be region locked at all:
Torchlight from Humble Better Futures Bundle
and "EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair" from March 2019 Monthly
When I was creating gift links, HB didn't warn me about any region locks as well.

Third one is Darksiders III from November 2020 Humble Choice. This time HB warned me about region lock, but current winner's country (Brazil) was in the list and it is in the list of countries for this steam package that as I understand I got from HB.

So:

  1. Is something wrong with Humble Bundle gift links now? Is something wrong with them right now, or in general, and we shouldn't use them anymore? (this thread is closest to this question that I found, but it is more like "I don't want to use gift links" instead of "we can't use gift links")
  2. Since if I understand correctly keys should be redeemable (from everywhere in first case and from Brazil or any other country from the list in second one), may be I can claim these links myself and send keys instead? Will everything be fine in this case. and will they be able to activate and play them?

May be this was already discussed earlier, but quick search for "gift", "link", "cannot redeem" didn't show anything similar recently, and last year gift links worked just fine.

3 years ago

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I've experienced this in the past few months.
Usually, if I see such a message, I use the link myself (it's not difficult) and give the winners the key.

3 years ago
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There is nothing wrong with humble, they always had region restrictions, depending on what a publisher wants.

3 years ago
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But it was less weird than it looks now:

Me: Hey, give me a gift link for this game.
HB: Here it is, but it will only work in <Country1>, <Country2>, ..., <CountryN>.
Me: Ok, thanks.
......
Someone from <Country1>: Clicks on a gift link.
HB: We're sorry, this gift is not claimable in your current country.
Me: WTF?
HB: Haha, I lied.

3 years ago
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never use gift links

3 years ago
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This. Reveal the key and use it.

3 years ago
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True because HB has become crazy with the ban hammer.
But revealed keys have the same region restrictions as gift links though.

3 years ago
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Humble bundle use to warn you when you attempt to reveal a โ€œregion lockedโ€ that was not for your region but I guess they fully changed you can redeem or reveal anymore

3 years ago
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This happened to me once. You can read the accounting here -> https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/cxAOZ/sekiro-shadows-die-twice-goty-edition

3 years ago
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And that's how I'm ending up doing more and more region-restricted GAs... sad :/

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