Will this site be near dead without Humble Bundle and similar?

It would die if people lost their giving spirit and if Russia dropped off the earth

Not really. There are many cheap games in many sites that you can give away. I don't even buy from humble bundle to give away games.

Considering that this site used to ban bundle games outright, I doubt that will be the case :P.

Perhaps if Steam stopped allowing gift purchases and if they disabled generation of keys by devs, forcing all purchases to be made on their store exclusively, then I suppose we'd eventually run out of things to give away.

I don't think so. People always have keys to drop, games to share, repeated stuff. HB its only one site of many.

Also, HB hosts lots of promos, self advertising, events, etc.

Nah but the chances of winning a game would become even slimmer and poor people like me wouldn't be giving away anything so there would be significantly less giveaways. Especially some games have been bundled like 3 years ago but they still count as bundled games, so as time goes on it would be more and more difficult to find non bundled games

When steam gifts v2 launched (this is currently v3), humble bundle gifts were forbidden unless the whole package was being raffled. Back in the days before CV, ownership checks, or even entry points were introduced.

That eventually was struck down due to being ultimately unenforceable but the site was going despite the prohibition on 'bundle trash'. A quilon linked the site stats, and I believe you can see the effect of deprohibition quite clearly in early 2012.

for me not much would change, cause bundled GAs make up only 24.5% of my real CV sent.

Roughly speaking, there would be 85% fewer giveaways (probably the drop-off would be a bit less because some people are giving away games that happened to be bundled which they would have given away anyway, or the like.) But you can see the stats here. For the last year, roughly 85% of giveaways have been bundled games.

On the other hand, there are 90,000 - 100,000 giveaways a month. Without the bundle games, the site would have fewer giveaways, but it would still exist and function fine otherwise. Look at the giveaways per month graph; the 15,000 giveaways per month before bundled games skyrocketed would be about where we'd be, probably. We'd no longer be rolling in a Scrooge McDuck money pit of giveaways like we are now, but there would still be plenty.

Another oddball stat: Aside from levels 0 and 1, each level has seen roughly ten times as many giveaways as there are people at that level. Not sure why, but it's pretty consistent across the other levels.

We will always have the forums. :3

I remember times when 200 entries were considered A F*****G LOT!

Its about a community rather than bundle games.

Nah, there was even a time when bundled games were not allowed to be given away here. We were fine back then :P

As far as i recall , this place used to be No bundle games allowed in the past , so i think it will be fine :)

no, but maybe people will have a hard time farming.

Won't be near dead, but I will be a leecher if that was the case.