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Humble Bundle OAuth system is now disabled for older purchases too

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TempeteJoachim
(Super Moderator)

While games and bundles sold since that announcement redeem manually on Steam, older purchases with OAuth key redemption were allowed to work as originally intended. This morning, the function was disabled and is no longer operational.

Starting today, we will be returning to the original system we used for Steam key redemption, which requires you to manually redeem your keys on Steam. All Humble download pages are now affected by this change.

http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/122983089209/changes-in-steam-key-redemption-for-legacy

9 years ago

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WahBlueFace

While it was convenient to simply one-click games to add to your library, I prefer the greater freedom of simply getting Steam keys, so I prefer the new/original system. It was actually annoying still having the old system on older bundles. So, good news!

9 years ago
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KillingArts
(Senior Moderator)

great, now i could finally get the steam key for antichamber i bought for myself by accident (rather than as a gift). that was not possible before, because HB said, i already had the game and it couldn't add it. i wrote support, but they didn't answer for months. and at some point, i just didn't care anymore. ^^

9 years ago
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TempeteJoachim
(Super Moderator)

You could have given the link to the page for redeeming Antichamber to the person you wanted to gift it to, that should have worked.

9 years ago
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KillingArts
(Senior Moderator)

i am not so sure about that, since it was not a gift link and claimed by my account.

9 years ago
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TempeteJoachim
(Super Moderator)

I have done that multiple times with games from bundles that were gifted to me, I just gave the link I got in my mail to the other person and they could activate it easily.
The URLs for these gifted bundle games are the same format that the URL of a game bought on their store (https://www.humblebundle.com/downloads?key=xxxxxxxxxxx), I'm pretty sure it would have worked.

Although maybe the fact that the game was claimed to your account would prevent the other person from seeing it. Couldn't you claim gifted bundle games too ? I think I remember doing that

EDIT: this is the page for my Antichamber purchased on the Store and claimed to my account : https://www.humblebundle.com/downloads?key=wBK2A7CPYyuXu7wK
Can you access it ?

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Saint
(Junior Moderator)

This page is claimed
This key page has been claimed by another user.
:-)

9 years ago
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KillingArts
(Senior Moderator)

you can of course give gift urls to other people. there is no difference, whether you open it or someone else.

the url is different indeed:

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=xxx
https://www.humblebundle.com/?key=xxx

the url you showed maybe links to one of these two, depending on whether it's a gift or not?

i am not 100% sure, but i can't imagine a game that is claimed by my account can just be taken by another account without my approval. that would be a shitty system. ^^

EDIT: no, can't access it.

9 years ago
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TempeteJoachim
(Super Moderator)

No, no, I didn't mean gift URL, but gifted URL. The URL that you get in your inbox when you claim a gift link. These are the same format than your purchase on the store, and since they are not claimed to your account, anyone with the link can see it.
For example this one : https://www.humblebundle.com/downloads?key=W5e2hPMwEGGGF7mZ

But yeah since Antichamber was claimed to your account and I don't see a way to unclaim a game, I guess you were screwed.

9 years ago
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KillingArts
(Senior Moderator)

indeed i was - until now. ;)

9 years ago
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JoaoWho

Now how do we know if its redeemed or not? ;_;

Indiegala only delivers keys too, and i have lots of unredeemed bundles keys but i cant make GA's for them cuz i dont know which ones are or not..

9 years ago
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TempeteJoachim
(Super Moderator)

Don't click to reveal the key until the exact moment you plan to use it.

9 years ago
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JoaoWho

Learned that the hard way..

9 years ago
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Raymond1991

Indiegala revealed all my keys when Oauth was ended so JoaoWho probably in same boat as me where bunch of games are revealed and don't know which ones haven't been used so now I keep tabs which games I don't use on paper.

9 years ago
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SHODANFreeman

I wish they still used OAuth, but added the option to collect the key without auto-redeeming it.

9 years ago
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Raymond1991

Wonder why Oauth was ended in the first place.

9 years ago
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foe
(Game Developer)

Probably security flaws that they don't like to make public more than they already are.

9 years ago
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madjoki

It's still available for some (Nvidia's free Arkham Knights use it) and non-key register purposes thought.

9 years ago
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Bazilus

After this change some of my unredeemed keys turned visible.

9 years ago
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Fnord

How does this impact Indie gala gift links? I have a couple of active GAs for such links.

9 years ago
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TempeteJoachim
(Super Moderator)

I think OAuth for IG has been disabled a while ago, even for their older bundles. I have bundles where some games say "This game was added to Tempête Joachim Steam account" while the other games from the bundle show a key.

9 years ago
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Fnord

I just double checked the gift link, it still considers it to be a gift at least, so hopefully I'll be safe.

9 years ago
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thenevernow

Why was this nice, smooth system abandoned again?

9 years ago
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Shadows

For the same reason you can only redeem 25 keys before Steam howls and makes you sit in the corner for an hour.

I just lost my train of thought. Oh, I've got it, no profit for Valve. If you redeem all your bundle keys, you might not accidentally buy some game you had a key for but didn't redeem because it was a hassle and you forgot. I may have done exactly that a couple of times recently, found keys for games I bought after the fact, games I hadn't gotten around to redeeming because I couldn't just click them like before.

9 years ago
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thenevernow

Wow, you really think there is such a conspiracy behind this change? I don't know.

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Shadows

It's Valve we're talking about, so it was probably more of a "oh hey, this isn't making us any money," screw it situation, which they'll call "protecting the community" in some way that doesn't actually make sense. Just the fact that you are locked out after 25 with a message claiming that you've had too many errors despite getting no errors at shows that it isn't for the purpose intended.

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thenevernow

The thing with the 25 keys activation limit is new to me, but I struggle to see a malicious intent there. I agree that calling it "too many errors" is wrong and misleading, but the measure is probably there to limit the consequences of a possible mass key leakage. That would be understandable and really, do you often need to activate more than 25 keys in a row? :)

9 years ago
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DominusFerrus

Good to know, thanks for the heads up!

Now .. where do i sell my Keys best G2A, Kongo-in or Steal-2-Fast.
j.k. (but thats what is going to happen) :-D

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UraniumFalconPunch

I have a number of gift links saved to text file from the days of OAuth. Can I still send these out then? Is the only change that the recipient will see a key instead of being invited to activate using the OAuth thing?

Or do I need to convert them to keys somehow myself and send them out?

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TempeteJoachim
(Super Moderator)

I guess so. If you want to be completely sure, send a gift to yourself and see how it works ^^

9 years ago
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UraniumFalconPunch

Cheers, tried it and that's exactly how it worked. Think I'll convert everything to keys before sending them out when it comes to giveaways, less hassle for the winner.

9 years ago
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Ceebers

Ha and it was just last Monday I accidentally added a game from humble on steam when i was trying to get the key to make a giveaway

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