Humble Choice Seems to be getting a Price Increase (Confirmed for Canada, Europe, now USA)

I had a subscription for years, but it's becoming increasingly rare for me to get a monthly Humble Choice -- I've had more themed bundles than HC ones in the last couple of years. My free cash is limited, there's already relatively few games (frequently 0-1) I want from any selection, and many games that I do want will end up on either Gamepass (which is insane value, at the cost of not owning the games, games rotating out, and maybe needing to wait a month or two extra) or free on Epic (at the cost of needing to use EGS). Increasing the price of HC to bundle in a site I don't use and don't want to use and a service that I don't value is likely to see me getting it less often.

From a business point of view i understand… i just hope the quality of games will be improved xD

I just bought Humble Dice and Destiny Bundle... 4/6 keys are currently out of stock or something - don't remember how they call it! HB is dying...

i have still 10-11 picks left from the yearly sub i bought in nov-dec when it had a discount. I doubt ill renew it, especially if they increase the price. That way i can at least avoid all the dead multiplayer games or games with 500 DLCs, none of them included in the choice. With 13€ i can buy what i want during sales and support with the full money and the developers or company who actually created something worthy, instead of getting splits and so cents from bundles.

Most of these choices games end up always on my backlog anyway and never playing it.

I didn't get it yet. Is it pausable or not? Do I have to pay the 99€ directly or do I check in for 8,25€ each month for 1 year and if I pause a month I lose my benefit? If it's 99€ direcly it should be pausable I suppose. And is IGN Plus included or not? Perhaps my English isn't good enough hehe.

I was slightly tempted to buy the full year as the price increase may put me off more easily of a few months. But looking back in 6 years, only had I got half the months, every other was 4,3,2 months not to mention the possibility of Origin keys now... Guess I'll buy even less Humble.

If I buy a yearly sub as a gift, does anybody know if these gifts expire? I would like to use it on my own account but still have 8 months paid left.

coupons just ran out and canceled my sub
when they asked way
Trump.

Welp, price hike in the US now too

$12 -> $15 monthly
$129 -> $155 annual
plus whatever your state tax is (usually like 7%?)

View attached image.

Capitalism at it's finest baby. Things get worse with every day passing by with absolutely no way of making them better.

Lucky me I already got plenty to play so I don't need much more, and while this effect is already displayed onto steam through higher base game prices, less % discounts, worse steam sales, etc. , it's gonna have to be next generation that figures it out and pays the higher price so I can have my nice things right? Kinda like the boomers did with the housing market. Otherwise we'll see a humble, steam, amazon, economy, etc. collapse. Maybe not in this lifetime, maybe yes. Exciting!

Yearly went from 109 euro to 135. Quite the hike, and after so many pauses, if it ends, I stop with it.

OK, bye Humble Monthly.
The quality and quantity of games offered has steadily gotten worse, you rebundle games even though you promised not to and with a prize hike... nope not worth it anymore.
(I was 80% convinced not to renew anyway, this was just the kick at the door).

...but I have 1 year left on the subscription, due to pausing, so I suppose I'll have the access for some time yet, unless I just get every month going forward just to be done with it.
IGN sucks.

Wouldn't mind the hike if the games quality and quantity hadn't decreased as well. We used to get AAA games regularly, or incredible bundles like Spyro+Crash+Call of Duty: WWII. Dark Souls II and III were bundled. $15 a month would be fair if we got Elden Ring in a bundle this year.

Seems like Australians woke up to their emails this morning:

“Thank you for being a valued Choice subscriber. We hope you're enjoying everything that Humble has to offer. We're writing to let you know that starting on July 1st, 2025 the price of your Choice subscription will be increasing to $20.95 AUD for monthly plans and $219.95 AUD for annual plans.”

While any price hike is a disappointment, I haven’t had as bad an experience with Humble as some of you. I’ve only experienced the dreaded key restock thing a handful of times. Certainly no key or bundle I’ve bought from them directly (i.e. not Choice) has ever had any issues. It’s only Choice keys that have occasionally been out of stock, and I do sometimes wait too long to activate them, which is partially on me.

For me, given the ability to pause on an annual plan, Choice still represents a fantastic deal. About $18.33 (less than one great indie game) for a bunch of games, several of which I’m interested in, sometimes some that are on my wishlist. And if I skip the month, I don’t lose out, so my sub often lasts for several months longer than a year, and I appreciate the ability to skip when most of the games are ones I already own or just aren’t interested in. And if one month is bad for me, generally the next is decent. Rarely do I need to skip two months in a row (although it does sometimes happen).

The IGN+ coupons of late, though, I do agree have not been welcome. I subbed for Steam games. If the trend of not delivering that continues, or the offering deteriorates in some way (less Steam codes, more ancillary BS), then I’d have to seriously reconsider staying subbed and just go month to month.

The last year or two I relied on coupons to get better value from HB - there's rarely more than one game that I'm interested in, very rarely something I've already wishlisted.

Not sure if HB is worth it with the price increase, they'd have to bring out some bangers.

How often do they send out coupons anyway, is it only when you pause X many times or something?

I still have my old classic subscription from years ago, that affected too?

The $12 was barely worth it most months as I typically only wanted one or two games most of the time. I certainly wouldn't do $15 unless there were at least three games I really wanted that I could get for $5 each. They're outpricing themselves and giving less games than they used to each month on top of that. Should be easier for me to spend less money though, so that's a plus. I'd been wanting to cut back a bit since my backlog is so massive.

So far it looks like this price hike is not applicable to people in Mexico and Latin America. I haven't gotten that message yet. Presumably our prices will stay at $12, which would be interesting, but maybe they're planning to give us regional pricing.

Which would be cool, but at the same time not, because I use Humble to buy games that are inexplicably more expensive in MXN than they are in USD on Steam. (Also Mexico doesn't have access to any EA games there.)

Guess we'll be finding out in the next week or so.

If there are games you want and will play it is still a screaming deal.
If you aren't really interested in the games, I could see more people passing when maybe they would have tried some of the games out at the lower price point.

Personally, if they actually improved the games, I think it is a good change. But they tend to want to put in a lot of PC games (not personal computer lol) as the smaller more indie games that I am not really interested in. I do love indie games, but generally not the ones they pick (also an issue with gamepass)