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.
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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.
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Humble bundle use to warn you when you attempt to reveal a โregion lockedโ that was not for your region but I guess they fully changed you can redeem or reveal anymore
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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
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And that's how I'm ending up doing more and more region-restricted GAs... sad :/
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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:
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.
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