Here's the email I got from Humble:

You are receiving this email because you have $15.49 in promotional Wallet credit earned prior to June 2018 on your account, that previously did not have a specified expiration date. In an effort to simplify our Wallet credit program, all types of promotional Wallet credit will now have an expiration date.
Your $15.49 will now expire on Monday, December 30, 2019.
Nothing else has changed about Wallet credit, and any credit you earn in the future will expire six months from when you earn it. Plus, any Wallet activity will refresh your expiration date on any remaining Wallet credit for 6 months.
Don’t worry, we’ll send you more reminders before Monday, December 30, 2019 too. Thank you for being a loyal Humble customer!

Bit annoying that they're adding an expiry date to my money which didn't have one originally. Oh well, any suggestions on what to spend all my Humble Wallet on?

5 years ago

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As many copies of the cheapest game to make a mass GA with? :P

5 years ago
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will now expire on Monday, December 30, 2019.

You've got time to wait and see on holiday sales. To avoid risk, I'd hit anything you're reasonably interested in as soon as it pops up on sale but, no reason to rush to buy anything just for the sake of buying something, quite yet.

Plus, any Wallet activity will refresh your expiration date on any remaining Wallet credit for 6 months.

This also means that you can just nab something cheap during a sale and get an extra extension on the rest.

As for the moment, I'm not seeing anything worthwhile at decent sale.

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They should have done it at least for one year. Its a stupid move.
Anyway sleeping dogs is on sale and its a hidden masterpiece. Also just cause series that is on sale is worth it if you want some action without having to worry about choices and a deep investment.
What genres do you like?

5 years ago
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I own all JC games and JC3 was super fun, over 100 hours in that. Sleeping Dogs looks quite good! oh and I like open world games, which I see Sleeping Dogs is one.

5 years ago
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sleeping dogs was great...the dlcs are bad. in my opinion it would be worth a buy

5 years ago
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the martial arts dlcs was pure kino

5 years ago
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I am not even a fan of nowadays open world games as all of them feel the same and have the exact same activities except for the Grand theft auto series which i love way too much. And eventhough i dont like fighting games or games that dont have guns i have to admit i like sleeping dogs more than any GTA.
The whole world looks really beautiful even if its a bit old, my favourite time of the day is the evening when its raining, the roads are magnificent. The gameplay is solid and the mechanics are really good. The story isnt anything really good but it does its job fine.
Its totally worth a shot especially for that price.
PS Yeah its open world.

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In an effort to simplify our Wallet credit program, ...

It was simpler without any kind of expiration. What they really meant to say was, "You guys aren't spending your money quickly enough, and that is not what we intended when we gave you store credit. Shop in our store, or we will take the credits away."

5 years ago
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Yes that line jumped out at me as typical corporate BS.

5 years ago
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*In an effort to take your money faster we decided you use it or lose it. :)

5 years ago
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Simplify for us. Our accountants keep complaining about these values in excel...

5 years ago
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That's a REALLY short amount of time for something that wasn't supposed to expire. :(

5 years ago
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IGN - shit bundles since circa 2018.

5 years ago
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"But Humble Monthly is a bundle too" incoming

5 years ago
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I would buy Thronebreaker.

5 years ago
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Ya, lets steal my $29.37. And lets still not let me actually spend it where it would be easy to do so. Can't use it towards Bundles or the Monthly. I'm not happy about this. Only letting me spend it in part of the site but not the entire site does not make sense.

And this is not to make it simple. They still have non expiring credit. There is no difference other then making a bunch of credit that never expired into credit that will.

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It does suck and I'm not happy about it either. I would just use it up during the sales on some game or games that you really want to play yourself from the store. Often, they are a little cheaper than the Steam sales, so winter sales it is for my wallet credit. =)

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It's promotional credit, hence not real money
I recall Greenmangaming doing the same few years ago
I just hoped they would give more time for me to use it.

5 years ago
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Not surprising when ToS agreements are often subject to change, so that is understandable.

On the other hand, it is difficult to make suggestions about what you should do with your HB wallet without knowing what motivates you. Perhaps build it up some more and spend it on something you really want from your wishlist during HB's winter sale?

5 years ago
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Jokes on you HB, I don't have any wallet credit!

5 years ago
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right there with you

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In an effort to simplify our Wallet credit program

LOL that never gets old. Just to make it easier for you losers who don't get that promotional money is to be spent RIGHT NOW, we're now telling you when to spend it. Mk. Bye.

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It used to be easier, just earn some more wallet credit (by buying something cheap from shop) and bam, 6 month extension, of course it was even easier without an expiration. But now I believe Humble wants to remove the wallet system because the current store only gives straight up discounts, not credit anymore.

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I dont think thats bad. If you ask me i see it as an easy way to destroy grey market sellers and this way more and more developers will be willing to put their games in bundles as the price of their games after the bundle will go back to normal and wont always stay low.

5 years ago
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Still have 0.62€ from a monthly subscription almost 3 years ago. Any suggestion what to buy?

5 years ago
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Just received a reminder email for expiration on dec 30.
Weird cause in my account it's stated expiration occurs on may 2020 since i made a purchase recently.

So what's to trust, the mail, the account, both (partial wallet expiration based on certain sum acquisition).
This oversight sounds like amateurism, not letting us much time to contact support to clarify.

4 years ago
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LOL, I thought the thread was brand new and that Humble had given the OP only 1-day's prior notice to clear the expiring credit.

4 years ago
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+1

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