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Why isn't there a separate Steam key for the 3 bonus games of Humble Bundle V?

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herrglocke

Humble Bundle V had 2 Steam keys, one for the four initial games (Limbo, Amnesia, Sword & Sorcery, Psychonauts) and one for the 3 bonus games (Braid, Super Meat Boy, Lone Survivor).

I have no use for the second one, so would like to give it away, but Steamgifts only offers either initial 4 games, or all 7 of them as possible giveaway option.

Could the key for the 3 additional games be added separately? Before I open a support ticket was wondering whether there's a particular reason for it.

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Torai

long long time ago! when HB first started (like last year lolz) there were no seperate keys like there have been with the recent bundles - it was 1 key for all the games in the main bundle, and then 1 key for the bonus games

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Shad0WeN

ummm that's exactly what the OP said

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Torai

i assumed he was puzzled as to why the HB5 wasn't seperate keys like the newer bundles

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TheGannet

he meant that steamgifts has no entry for giving only the 2nd key. it aparently has one for hbv, hbv(no bastion) hbv key 1, but not hbv key 2

i think

probably because you aren't supposed to split them up/

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ASIC

You are not allowed to give away humble bundle keys.
see this: http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/243221-can-i-sell-give-away-my-keys-

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Peroxide

Report him to the HIB Police.

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ASIC

Are you serious?

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BalefirePhoenix

So 75% of this website is illegal?

http://youtu.be/U6MlaIe1ljs

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ASIC

They probably won't do anything.

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link42586

lol nothing is going to happen to u..at least not on steam..they couldn't care less if u got rid of them or not. this site however..just be careful how u get rid of them..no misleading giveaways..and i'm sure nobody will do anything to u from the humble bundle people. they would have to do something to damn near everyone else who gave away games from it (alot of people).

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Seibitsu

You can post it here.

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Peroxide

You mean through the Amensia giveaway?

Time to go fill out a report.

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Seibitsu

I bet it happened many times and what if I won it, you mad?

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Peroxide

Just stating that what he did was against the rules.

I'm not sure why I would be mad as I already have those games and many more.

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Seibitsu

Anyways its the same for all Humble Bundles, apparently you can't give separate keys away but people still do it. And about the raffle, I didn't know it had more than 1 game so it's not my fault.

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Peroxide

No one cares about HIB ToS as they've never enforced it and even given away multiple keys of the same game with the hopes that you'd share them as it was a 4 person coop game.

The only thing you did wrong was not reporting the person when it first happened. They're the ones at fault, not you. The issue is the HIB giveaway would normally only give $1 worth of contribution as opposed to the $20 he received.

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MarvelousMax

Because you are meant to give unused gift URL's, not seperate keys. You can give it out in the forum or so though.

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Peroxide

If HIB V was released before we were allowed to giveaway keys, then that is absolutely the reason.

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Shad0WeN

I really don't why the option to giveaway half bundles from Humble Bundle has not been added (should count as either being on the bundle list or you get no contributor value from it). A lot of people redeem only the half they are interested in but then would like to give away the rest. Staff dropped the ball on this imo.

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thomas404

If you would have it so no contribution value is added, you may as well post it on a random thread for the ninjas.

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Peroxide

As MarvelousMax stated, when HIB V was released in May 2012, we were not allowed to giveaway keys under any circumstance. Without being able to giveaway keys, you either bought the below average or the above average and gave the URL so as such, there was no need to create any more entries at the time.

I would assume no one has contacted support and requested for this particular issue to be corrected. All the bundle entries have to be manually created unlike new items in the Steam Store.

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Shad0WeN

That was like 9 months ago and times change. I've seen numerous people ask about this in forum threads.

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ASIC

because humble bundle does not allow you to give away individual keys only gift urls.

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Shad0WeN

If that were indeed the reason then it would be stupid because A) realistically speaking it doesn't stop anyone from doing whatever with the keys and B) people are giving away individual keys for every Humble Bundle that has any of them anyway.

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Award

Nothing stops you from pirating, either. That doesn't make pirating a good thing.

Rules of bundles should still be upheld by you personally but SG ultimately is not there to enforce rules of other sites. However it should never be officially supported. Otherwise it's pretty hypocritic to punish people for not activating gifts etc. And humble bundle specifically is pretty clear of not being okay with this. Maybe they have unofficial change of heart behind the scenes, to give out individual keys, but I would mostly imagine it's just easier logistically. And I think the official message of HIB not to allow handling individual keys is preferable for developers themselves (doubt devs agree to put their stuff into humble bundle so you can profit out of it; it's part charity and part marketing, they probably don't do this for direct profit, doubt they get much out of it)

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Closed 11 years ago by herrglocke.