Now it is official: Humble Bundle IS fully region locked.

I think so, yes. Maybe New Zealand also.

It reads "Rest Of World".

it's not just na and europe. it's [the whole world] - {[region locked steam regions] + [countries that steam doesn't give a crap about service]}.

Most of Europe, NA, most of Africa, and usually Japan, Australia, NZ, and Oceania. Capcom and Deep SIlver have Europe as separate region under lock, and Capcom and Square's Japanese side also has Japan under lock. Plus sometimes Oz & co. may end up in the SEA region lock.

USA is ROW. I believe Canada is too.

I pay in euros (:

They support USD, EUR, and GBP, but the prices are fix and currencies are converted to match the USD one (fairly accurately).

EU pays in Euros, Russia and CIS countries pays in dollars. I don't understand reason behind region lock other that to piss off some users.

Because they are not stupid and know that a large portion of bundle keys end up on the grey/black market.

The same reason cigarettes in Europe cost different amounts, yet smuggling operations from Ukraine and Turkey profit a ton (billions of Euros) on the fact that it is cheaper there on the East (half to one Euro) and can sell for 5-10 Euros a pack on the West. Same with game keys, only with slightly less profit and smaller prices individually.
So in this cases the borders are very much there and regulated. It's just it took this long for the difital world to do the same. But there is nothing new in it, at all.

More likely it's due to local publishing rights.

Yes, the same dirt cheap prices that are cheaper than the cheapest region on Steam can ever be. Why would they cut it even more?

Lots of things are censored or removed from sale there because of German decency in entertainment laws (no red blood etc)

Yep, Germany is EU1, but I'm not from Germany :D
Keys from EU1 and EU2 are usually ROW, but Germany's tend to have restrictions like "German language only" and censorship. Not really region locked, but with limitations. Then there is that "Germany lock" where you can't activate keys bought outside of Germany because those versions are not compliant with Germany's censorship law.

So? you are only making my argument more true,steam region locking is BS, also i dont have an income, i am a student, a student56 if you will.

There are regional prices in Humble Store - for example Total War: ATTILA costs 40EUR in EU but costs 45 USD in US.

Bundles were… in other sites still are… the only cheap and legit way of locked region users to get ROW keys to sell, and those keys sell for higher prices always. Plus bundles are, except for some cases, cheaper than a discount even in the Russian store (the cheapest region, at least it used to be). So locking down bundles means they are out of another cheap ROW key source to trade and have to stick to region-only trading, like with Steam gift copies.
At least this can be one of the causes, but I cannot think of another valid reason to lock down bundles too apart from the same reason they locked down Steam trading. (It wasn't even a secret it was aimed against the Russians; we all heard the stories of people there actually making a living of selling their cheap games with a small profit that still was like a 80-90% discount for Westerners.)

The difference is that you're making profit off for non-resale keys. Lets say you buy the bottom tier $1 of a bundle with 5 games, and then you resell each of those games individually for $1. Then let's say you repeat this through a little scripting or botting, and sell a mere 10 bundles. You have spent $10 and made $100 profit, while the developer won't even see the $10 if you leave it on a default split. When a developer opts to allow their game to be bundled, they have already negotiated with the bundle provider for any price minimums, length of bundle sale, and have given consideration to how the bundle may devalue the overall price of whichever games were bundled, and so on.

When you start to gank personal-use keys for commercial profit, you are acting against the terms of service as a form of parasite, and as an uncontrolled agent. Let's say 10 people resell 10 bundles each this way. That loss of control certainly starts to add up, doesn' t it? But we're not talking about just ten people reselling just ten bundles of individual games at one dollar, are we? The numbers are bigger all across this hypothetical. It's not even bundles that suffer this, when you get into regional pricing. It's not like people are just laying down restrictions to stop us from throwing our hard-earned money at them. They want our money, believe me :P

Bundles still offer a significant discount, and for people to systematically abuse them? It's only natural that bundle hosts would apply escalating levels of restrictions in an effort to staunch the open wound of 'uncontrolled' keys. People also felt incredibly bitter when Humble dared to include price tiering on bundles, complete with the same "goodbye Humble!", "boycott Humble!", "Humble is dead to me!" and "What a dick move" echoes. These are all repercussions of developers getting twitchy about bundle-culture and resellers. It does suck for people who like to gift across regions (if you have friends worldwide), but it just seems odd to me that people take it so personally. Let them hammer out the new restrictions, and then let the customer complaints file in. There are always adjustments to be made, if their customers uniformly make their concerns / lost purchases known.

I feel your pain, my friend. Do you at least have Steam prices in your currency?

potentially.. yes, same way germany has to get cut versions of certain games and stuff

Bethesda… making bundles… that may actually have more than 75% discount…
Ha. Haha. Hahahahahahaha! Bwhahahahahahahaha!
Oh boy, you made my day.
We'll sooner see Donald Trump french kiss a gay Mexican guy on live television then a cheap Bethesda bundle.
The PLCZRU versions of their games were made because they wanted to prolong the launch in this sector because they thought that either a) the USSR actually exists still or b) Russian hackers making day one cracks are a thing (and it's totally not US, Brazil, and German teams cracking all the games on day 1 or even day 0…).

They certainly haven't been the same quality since the layoffs, yeah :X

And sure, they've been really dropping the ball on providing adequate information, no argument.

But, as far as everyone has thus far indicated, they do at least offer no-hassle refunds once the matter is brought to their attention, so at least they're not scamming anyone.

As far as unfair pricing if you do want to stick with the purchase, well, pricing- and most things- are rarely fair.
Getting hateful over it rather than trying to figure out why they're not providing appropriate regional pricing, is a bit peculiar.

Besides, we still don't have any indication that Humble is the one enforcing the pricing.
Or, most likely, they were caught blind-sided by the publishers pushing region-locking, and are having trouble updating their payment system to allow for regional payments, in a quick enough manner.

Meaning the alternative here ISN'T regional pricing, but COMPLETELY IGNORING those regions until such a payment method is implemented.
And more options is always good- no?

It's just a lot of hearsay at this point, and other than the 'yeah, Humble needs to present bundle details better, we all agree on that' bit, it's really too early to tell if we should be upset with Humble yet.

Besides, if we've got angst over it, I hear flooding someone's e-mail with complaints gets a message across just fine :'P

PS: Support requests are delayed because of the layoffs :( Not much they can do about that, unfortunately.

Again, not arguing that it doesn't suck and isn't needlessly confusing in presentation- just that the 'fuck you Humble' seems a bit overdone and premature, given how respectable they've been so far.
Save it a bit longer until we're totally sure, then let it all out without any reservations, mm? :)

I agree, that is the worst part. They should at least inform people.