Bye bye Humble Bundle keys!

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Does this mean that new HB games won't be considered bundled anymore? I hope so...

about time... it was great that people would abuse HB to increase their rep but im sure the gifters can find other ways to give away games without HB getting the short end of the stick. Might even let them make better Bundles once devs see that their games arent going to be "resold" from the sale of a dollar.

Now its easier to add games to your steam library.

Easier my balls. I like the old system, it worked, it was nice and i got moist everytime i put my key in my Steam account.
I didn't ask for a new system, so... In the same title, in other words, "Now fuck you and stop making giveaways with our keys." That is it.
Let's talk properly, without decorations.

Don't get fooled by a "nice" marketing title :)

Don't get me wrong, i'm not mad about this (i don't give a fuck about this as my CV stopped at 30$ a month ago and i'm still happy making other gamers happy), what i really dislike is the "nice" title. Like, "Hey hey, we did this for you, now it's easier, you have to be happy". When it means another different thing.

Lol. I "love" marketing stuff fooling people since decades...

Have a nice day :)

Is it retroactive ? like all the previous bundle are now like that or there are still keys ?

lame

I really don't get what they have against key traders, they sell more bundles and get more money that way. Am I missing something obvious?

They new system is GREAT! To the whiners who say " won't buy if I can't gift a game" I call BS. First off, if even a single game is one you like, and it is non-BTA, $1 is cheaper than buying it anywhere else. SECOND, it benefits charity, its not just about getting every single title with all the DLC for $1 so you can have 800 games in your steam profile of which you have played 50. THIRD, we were never supposed to gift the extras. Almost everyone did either share with a friend or put some extra keys on Steam Gifts. Instead of QQ that you can't do it anymore, realize we were breaking the rules before, there are no consequences, and now we are being held to the rules we agreed to in the TOS.

The new system is really no different from getting a single key for the entire bundle. All the new whining is silly. ROOAARRR!! MAD I NO HAVE KEY FOR EACH GAME ROAR!!! Excuse me, when they gave a single key for the entire bundle, you didn't get single keys either. The new system is much more flexible. Makes it easier to redeem games and if you want to share a game you just unlink your account, link it to you friend, then redeem that key. Only now you have to actually have a friend you trust. If you really trust the person, then gaining access to their account isn't an issue.

Most of the ROOOAAARR MAADDD !!!! is because you aren't sharing with close friends. You are selling keys or trading keys with strangers or others you don't really trust. Tough. It wasn't meant for that. I did it before, a lot of people did it before, we can't do it anymore, so "tough" to us. We can't put Humble keys on SG or trade them. We can still get gift URLS for people. We can still have very trusted friends share. You are full of BS if you say you won't buy another Humble Bundle. You will, we all will. A few duplicates won't deter anyone.

(copied from one of the many other threads on the same topic)

If this keeps the quality bundles coming, I'm okay with it.

I for one am glad, every day all SG has listed is bundle games. I hope all the bundle sites do this, only thing i will miss is being able to give copies to friends.

That's stupid, now if I only need one game from the bundle, I still have to acivate them all, even if I already own them or they're just some shitty games and I don't wanna make my Steam library a trash can... also it was fun winning some single games I need from HIB on this site...

so goodbye HIB, it was nice, but now its gone ;)

I always buy a bundle even if none of the games interest me because I want to support pay-what-you-want schemes so this won't change my modus operandi, and I think it could be a good thing in the long-term. For one it will encourage more developers to get involved in bundles if they know their keys can't be given away freely. I generally don't care about most of the games anyway, they go in my Steam account and 90% of them get put straight into my 'bin' category. It will also mean that there are less useless giveaways on here, and even games that get bundled might not become next to worthless just because they've been in a bundle at some point.

Impact Steamgifts? Yeah I'm sure it will, people will actually have to give whole bundles instead of some crappy game from one that they didn't want.

I like it. It's fast and convenient.

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Fast and easy. I like it. Thank God there won't be a spam of giveaway of bundle games, and after that a spam of threads on the forum where people complain about not getting CV. Happy days.

Thankfully we got Johnny from Groupees to help us with our bundle needs now that Humble has become too money minded.

Like. It's better now.

Mmmm in fact I think this is 100% marketing ploy to be honest. Consider this

1. humblebundle.com started off with _onesingle Steam key for all games.

2. Relatively recently they have changed to "separate Steam key for each game because people asked us" (by "relatively recently" I mean 6-10 months ago). This, by the way, was only implemented in some of their bundled, but not all.

3. With the new system you can still "activate" the games separately at your will, but only on one account you have bound to your purchase. I think this was done to maintain the illusion of having "separate" keys for games in the bundle and at the same time force people out of gifting/trading their spare separate Steam game keys.

Besides being a bit lazy to learn a new system for no good reason I have only one problem with this "new system". I don't want to authorize anybody besides myself (including humblebundle.com) to do anything whatsoever with my account. Yes, I do understand they are "trustworthy enough" and "will do no harm" and "Steam definitely will not let them do anything that is a threat to your security" and so on. Still, I personally feel uneasy when I authorize some 3rd party to perform certain actions (presumably, even in an automated fashion) on my account. For instance, I very much disliked IR for auto-activating Desura keys on one's account bound to the email the bundle was purchased for. I mean, let me do this myself, I want to control when and how I redeem stuff (now, fortunately, IR lets you activate your keys yourself). And even though this "click button redeem to bound account" is certainly not the same as the described above case, it certainly is a step to that direction. This is by no means a disaster for me, but certainly not a "change for better" as some people seem to see it. (TL;DR I'm ok with a single Steam key scheme for all games, but I'd rather prefer to activate it myself without "authorizing" a 3rd party to do anything with my Steam account).

Reposted from Reddit: Charity has nothing to do with anything. Seriously, it doesn't. The real issue deals with the act of the purchase. Where the money eventually ends up does not matter in the slightest. People need to stop bringing that up.

The Terms of Service do not matter either. Terms of Service are not legally binding and therefore people can do whatever they want with the products they legally paid for, as is their right. People need to stop trying to guilt others for doing what they want with games they legally bought. Again, this is not the issue at hand though. The issue is with the act of the purchase.

This new system of purchase is broken because Humble is providing different products to people based on what they already own and they are charging everyone the same price. For a set price some people get 2 games, while others get 6. That is horribly unfair and frankly I don't know how it's even legal. I suppose it's because they try to be clear about what variant of the product people will receive, but it's a really scummy way to go about things and I don't see how they expect to retain customers.

They are punishing the people who support the developers the most. The whole reason that we end up having duplicate copies of games, is because we already paid for the games before... and we likely spent more than whatever the bundle is charging. In the end we are paying more to the developers than anyone who just bought the bundle alone. Yet we are the ones being screwed over by being told we can't have some of the games we pay for.

Humble just wants everyone to buy separate bundles and to let games to go to waste. It is not in an attempt to gain back lost profits, it's a scheme to underhandedly make more money on top of their current profits. While resellers profiting off Humble's great deals IS scummy, I really don't think they affect Humble negatively at all and are just a scapegoat. If anything they probably increased Humble's profits.

Think about it. Why would anyone buy from a reseller if they could get the same thing from Humble for a cheaper price? There are two reasons that I can think of. They either do not know that Humble exists, or the sale is no longer running and they could not buy the product from Humble at that point. In both circumstances, Humble would not have made any profit off of these people. However, while Humble was not making profits off these consumers, they were still making profits off all the resellers who were buying extra copies to resell.

Resellers are filling gaps that Humble has left in the market. If Humble wants to combat resellers properly, they need to fill these gaps themselves. This means improving their marketing. If they can make consumers aware that they exist, those consumers will have no reason not to buy from Humble directly. Take away the buyers, and the resellers have no one left to resell to. It's pretty simple. They shouldn't blame the rest of us when they are the ones at fault.

This new system devalues the bundles to a lot of people and I for one will not be paying for 6 games when I will only get 2. I really hope that everyone votes with their wallets on this, as I am, and that Humble realizes these anti-consumer moves are not a good idea.

tl;dr

i like it

I just fear that they fuck me with cut games after they find out that my residence is not Merica but Germany...