Pretty much this. 2015 is the year they decided to fuck everyone over.
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Nah, they started before 2015...
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Your first four points don't apply to me as I do not trade or use the market (much). I put myself in the "everyone else" list of those who haven't been fucked over yet.
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you are entering GAs on SG.
You are in multiple GA groups.
A lot of members of SG and of these groups live in now ful-region-restricted areas (and remember that some countries got locked even if they must pay full US prices for steam games anyway). So a lot of users who used to create GAs you'd enter and win now cannot buy games for GiveAways. Additionally to 7day lock on keys and 30 day lock on gifts it's much harder and riskier for them to even trade for region free gifts now. So even if you are not trading and it doesn't DIRECTLY affect you, these changes AFFECT YOU INDIRECTLY, as well as any other user of SG.
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I'm not sure why you're arguing with me. Steam/Valve has got shittier with yet another stupid decision.
As a gesture of goodwill, here's a completely unused, region-free, non-captcha requiring, bullshit-free key:
GDFJ0-(16th prime number)G8D-BGQDE
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https://twitter.com/humblesupport/status/554703762804068352
Looks like, in the future they'll change to keys
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it said on their post that anything purchased before today will still be OAUTH, not keys.
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https://twitter.com/humblesupport/status/554708905889390592
so probably when steam completly blocks that, they'll change to keys
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At least it'll be easier to give games to friends now. No more stupid gift link crap.
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this "stupid gift link crap" was letting you easily distinguish which keys have been used/redeemed and which have not. It also made it easy to verify if winner activated his win on his account or on another account or traded gift or never used it. Pretty damn good usabilities compared to "crap" of having to click mouse button 3 more times to activate your win...
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Except for when you're giving a gift to a friend that has no desire to jump through the humble hoops just to activate the game.
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if someone has no desire to spend like 30 seconds and 5 mouse clicks to get a free game from you he clearly doesn't give enough shit about that game to deserve it. C'mon - click link -> enter mail -> click submit -> open mail -> click link in mail -> click "redeem". In comparison activating key: click(1) and drag to mark whole key, copy key -> click(2) on steam icon -> click(3) on games -> click (4) on activate -> click(5)(6) next and I agree -> paste key -> click(7)(8) next 2 times -> click(9) cancel
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I'm the one who decide whom is deserve my game.
I couldn't gift my game to my new friend because If I send a redeem link via steam make me look like a scammer.
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Groupees had the best system. I could redeem the games quickly and easily, even from work or from my phone where I did not have the Steam client. And I could still use the key directly if I wanted to redeem it manually or give it away.
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Can't even think of any Real Reason as this doesn't have much with RU store exploitation or such.
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I think the OAuth worked with cookies. Maybe if you manupilate them you can let other people redem games to your account.
But not sure. just an idea.
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That is possible, I for one had a problem with some random person gaining access to one of my bundles and redeeming a bunch of the games to their account. Thankfully it was just after OAuth had gone into effect, so it showed me they were claimed to some random name, and HB had no problem fixing the issue for me. Still not sure how the person got access to my bundle page.
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Prevents scamming, duh! (no idea how that works, but yeah)
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someone drugged the coffee machine in valve's office. i can't think of any other legit reason for the shit they are doing to us. every week you hear some new bullshit. valve makes gifts untradable, region-locks games, implements horrible captchas - and now this. they really can kiss my...
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And now giving away my remaining ones on a GameFAQs board to be safe.
No, I won't share the board with you guys. I'm not letting board lurkers have them anyway.
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That explains a few randoms popping up when I didn't want them. I'll ask you to remove the link. I've already had one guy with a total message count of 2 ask me for a game then call me a douche when I told him no. I don't need more.
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lel, I remember how everyone hated HB putting that system of using link instead of keys, it's more safe, you know it's not redeemed, and more things, but you can't resell it for money, because everyone will see from where it comes. Now everyone hates they going back to this system.
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People only hated it at first because Humble introduced it without the gift links, so there was no way to give or trade your keys. That was, until a very short while later, that Humble added gift links and everyone calmed down.
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I thought the whole OAuth was introduced to avoid abusing bundle keys in trades ?
With everything else they've done to close loopholes and hamper traders/resellers, this seems a very strange move.
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It wasn't about trades, it was about reselling HB games on eBay, g2a, etc, to avoid ppl doing it. Because it goes against their ToS. Reselling games from promos like Nvidia or AMD is against their terms too, but nobody cares, so here on HB same.
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I did mention resellers along with traders didn't I ?
They're trying to kill off both groups, except now the resellers have their biggest loophole re-opened again.
Oh, that, and scammers. Because with an automated step that can be easily logged and audited for evidence out of the way, those'll have more chance to get away because their fraud can't be adequately proven.
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This is good...so no more rely on Humble.
Actually i find the system that Groupees uses the best.
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Not sure what that means, except Humble Bundle will go back to keys (damn, I was enjoying that system that actually let me know wich keys were used and wich weren't).
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