Region restricted giveaways

Because those threads haven't yet provided a resolution to the situation. A lot of people will see an old thread bumped and just ignore it. This is an issue that needs to be raised repeatedly until its resolved.

A few years ago the only edge cases were a few US only keys and a few games that couldn't be redeemed in Germany/Australia/Japan. These exceptions were easy enough to handle with a statement on the giveaway. In fact these giveaways were explicitly allowed and it was really down to the entrants to know what wasn't available in their region.

Now though with all the gifting issues i.e. Russia can't gift to CIS, Brazil can't gift to South America; and the variety of regions on the last few Humble offerings including ones that don't match the standard regions (not that the site even offers all the standard regions) it's becoming increasingly difficult to use the site. Entrants can't be expected to check which region every giveaway creator is from and even if they did you don't know whether said creator purchased the bundle with a VPN to get a different set of keys. There's also the fact that Humble only list restrictions when generating a link and not when generating a key. A lot of other sites don't give you that information at all.

The work it would take to implement new options whether they be single choice like we have now or multiple choice which is what we really need is almost certainly less in the long run than the work required from support to deal with re-rolls and what have you.

Some might argue it wouldn't be worth the extra server load and I'll admit I have no idea how big an impact that would be but this isn't just a QoL change it's core site functionality.

EDIT: 2 of the 7 giveaways i can see for Mighty No. 9 list restrictions. One of them lists the countries in full whilst the other just gives the country codes. And honestly the following is just a mess and uncomfortable to read.

AD AI AL AT AX BA BE BG BM BQ CH CS CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FK FO FR GB GE GF GG GI GP GR GS HR HU IE IO IS IT JE KY LI LT LU LV MC MK MQ MS MT NL NO PL PN PT RE RO SE SH SI SJ SK SM TC TR VA VG YT

North America (Canada, United States) gives you around 200,000 possible entrants. Those who have EU keys have a choice of using Germany (~50,000 users) or Poland (~60,000 users), Germany often isn't a viable choice as the games in question often can't be redeemed there. Which leaves you with Poland, meaning the 50,000 German users can't access the giveaway nor can the other 100,000+ users from the other countries that make up Europe. On the other hand Poland is also sometimes an invalid choice as some companies still lump them into RHCP or something similar.

I always make 1 hour level 5 public GA and hopes for the best with those giveaways from Deep Silver. Have worked out so far :)