Will you be a cutie and help me test a workaround for indiegala gift links? [thank you hannes.m31!]

I got to the site and the key was taken (not by me).

And i am always a cutie. :p

It works, but only if the winner can read or if they understand what is being said :p

I just converted all my indiegala.com gift link to ones in this format. This is really easy if you manage your keys in Excel. You can create the link for the GA, by using the following formula:

="https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key="&RIGHT(B2,32)

(this assume that B2 is the cell where the URL of the original indiegala.com gift link is)

It could work, but given the sheer amount of people who don't give a f... about reading descriptions, it could lead to dire consequences...
It's better to add the winners on Steam, or sending them an e-mail, to give them the link.

But, why aren't Indie Gala gift links accepted? Is there some kind of complication within the system, or simply no one ever thought of that when designing it?

Yes, I'm a cutie!

Quick & dirty Tampermonkey script (based on the work of others) which adds the text above to GAs (pre-populating my preferred invite-only GA parameters) is here. No guarantee whatsoever of course.

btw thanks for the key but steam said it was a duplicate key so yeah not sure what was wrong :D

It won't work.

I made GAs for IG links, by adding ending of giftlink to key part, and writing on GA page "it's unique ending of IG gala giftlink, you have to add it after "x part" to make it work, so it will look like "part profided in GA description=part from won page".

And still 3 people added me on steam asking "what is this? it don't work". People don't read GAs descriptions, and noone can expet them to change this behaviour.

What MSKOTOR said above, you're risking "not received" mark from a bit more stupid users who won't even read description of the giveaway they won. You could now ask "wait, so they'll add me on Steam telling me the link doesn't work, right?" and surprise, there is a very high chance that this won't happen either, due to same reasons.

It's your choice how you make your giveaways, but assuming that people have a minimum of brain will lead to dramatic consequences. I'd not suggest this way personally.

why would you overcomplicate things? xD

just add the winner to steam and give him the code or send it via email... @.@

well, i just get the code from the site in question. and put that ;)

Why not just suggest SG to support indiegala links?
Actually 'gift links' is a bad thing (atleast humblebundle ones).
I had a bad experience of not recieving actual key to my email after activating hb gift (while getting their newsletter is always fine).
So I had to ask help from hb support and\or ga creator to recover the key...