[Humble Question] Exhausted Keys

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussions/deals/search?q=stock

Extremely common, and apparently just gets worse as more time passes from a bundle, and also in general? A year ago it happened every now and then, now it's not uncommon that it happens while they actively sell the bundles. It sucks, so always claim your keys as soon as possible because Humble is untrustworthy to ever change it for the better.

It happens, and is very frustrating, sometimes taking them over 12 months to replenish the keys (and even when they sell the same game in their store). It seems particularly egregious that so many are unavailable in recent bundles. I guess December was more popular due to the 6 month offer they had.

they sell something they don't own

I've waited almost 2 years for 3 keys from the same bundle. At least in Fanatical when a game in a bundle runs out of stock they put the "sold out". Even you get early warning, "low stock" or something similar. But HB? They keep selliing even when keys run out. And then you have to wait for them to get to the same agreement with the publisher so HB doesn't lose money, ofc. They're not going to give you a key from their normal store stock which might cost as much as you paid for the entire bundle. And the BIG problem is that you don't know if they're out of stock until you get to the page with the keys; so don't forget to check the latest update on that bundle in the Deals forum, which should point which keys are out of stock or replenished.

I've heard of people with incomplete bundles from +3 years ago, forgot in what HB bundle thread. The one with "We Have To Talk" IIRC.

As others say, as soon as you can get to the page with the keys, claim them all and save them somewhere safe. Because they can freeze your account too.

3 keys from Octobers choice were out of keys for me , Jusant , Mcpixel3 and Jack move . Jusant and Mcpixel3 have restocked after that so right now its just Jack move i havnt gotten

There's also a case like Roboquests (november 2022), which still says it's out of stock (at least it did a few months ago), but if you ask support they'll probably give you a key.

i claim keys as soon as i buy and store them in a spreadsheet because of this. but it still happened to me recently in the programming bundle; learning factory went out of stock before i bought.

Humbles business model is to buy less keys from devs/publishers then sold to consumers under the assumption that many customers will never reveal the keys, and pocket the sold/revealed difference.

When buying from Humble ALWAYS reveal your keys! This is true for non-bundles as well, as this person found out the hard way on a key that now sells second hand for over $1000!