HumbleBundle Gift Sharing

[Spacedeck]

This is just a warning to anyone who uses HumbleBundle and gifts away games. Reports are going around that HB are deactivating accounts that have been sharing games.

I first picked up on this from a post on /r/humblebundles. After getting clarification from HB, they released these changes to the rules of the sub Reddit.

Then in a recent discussion this guy has been one of those who has had his account deactivated.

So if any of you use the gift link feature, think twice. I'd recommend grabbing all the codes and sticking them in an Excel sheet instead. These shouldn't be trackable and hopefully avoid issues like this.

 

[Spacedeck]

Yeah fair point, well lost a sub from my side anyway. I'd thought about it a couple of months ago but the nieces and nephews got some games they enjoyed the last few months so it was fine by me. Not now though obviously and I didnt actually realise it was against the terms of service as the damn gift link is right there on screen.

This was the response they received from HB on Twitter: https://twitter.com/humblesupport/status/1286061511702720515
"If the key being gifted was received through our Partner program, then they may give away this key as long as there is no cost to enter the said giveaway. While we welcome gifting keys to well-known friends, we cannot condone gifting away keys on open forums to strangers."

This is why I'd recommend generating the keys and storing them somewhere like Excel. While generally it should be safe to gift to friends / family members, if you use the gift link generated by HB a lot, it could possibly look like something else you are just openly giving them away.

I do find it strange how they say friends, yet they don't know if we have friends that live in a different region.

 

[Spacedeck]

You can give the keys away to your friends. They just don't want you giving them to randomers on those key trading places, or selling them. (which is silly)

Basically, if a key you give to a friend ends up on a key selling website, you may get your account banned.

Is it even possible for the receiver to re-gift a game after it's been gifted once? If not they'd only be selling the generated steam code which I'm not sure they can track.

I know most people do generate the steam code and send that but for anyone who doesn't do that, now is a good as time as any to start. I imagine one of the ways you'll be flagged is gifting too many games over a short period, or even to lots of different email addresses. Imagine having a list of 50 games for sale and generating 25 as them as gift links over the period of 24 hours, I think that may raise some flags on the system.