Did you really have a choice?
Classic: Per month -
You could phrase this in the price cell (if it will fit) as: $12.00 for active/paused Dec 2019 Mo. subs (See FAQ)
๐ก Humble original
To be revealed later.
Humble Choice gives "Arrog" (doesn't say DRM free?) and "Desert Child - DRM-free", so I think those might consist of the Humble Originals to go with this month's Choice.
If you are referring to Humble Trove reveals, I think that already happened for the month given that the Humble Trove's countdown clock is currently 21 days. That implies to me that Humble Trove additions happen the second week of each month (on a Tuesday?). The Recently Added Games list @ trove is: Arrog, Balconing Simulator 2020, Dear Esther, and Race The Sun: Challenge Edition.
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I was thinking a long time but tbh i only wanted Blasphemous and I'm sure I can pick this one up later so finaly I paused
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EDIT: Less then 6 hours left before you'll be auto-charged for the month!
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Actually you can grab them anytime before they're launched (which is next Friday), but it auto-charges a week early. You could even pause/cancel now and still if grab them anytime in the next week if you change your mind.
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What if i don't pick any game now, game will be able to choose later?
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According the FAQ, you don't have to choose now, you can choose in two years and they'll provide your keys at that time.
I wouldn't wait that long though, as there are sometimes issues when you try to redeem old games.
A recent example is Ethereal, a Humble Original from the September 2018 Monthly. Keys were available a few months after the end of that Monthly (like that's often the case with the Humble Original games). The ones who claimed the game quickly after the release got their key without any problem. For the ones who waited too much, boom, no more key available. And now the game is no longer in the list of the purchased games, so I assume we will never get that game.
But maybe the Monthly and the Choice keys attribution works in a different way and your keys are 100% guaranteed forever. Too early to tell.
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I think the issue presented with Humble Originals are generally because they were not promised to the buyers. We are given a DRM free copy and I don't think the devs are under obligation to give keys and even if they do, to provide for the entirety of the volume of buyers for that particular month.
For the other games, it should be fine to claim them at any undefined period unless Humble decides to start setting time limits
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I definitely wouldn't risk it. Humble has removed older unredeemed games from peoples libraries before (remember someone on SG had that happen to them with one of the delisted Spiderman games).
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remember someone on SG had that happen to them with one of the delisted Spiderman games
That's a really bad example as its a very specific case of a delisted game and as such one they couldn't provide a replacement for even if they'd wanted to. Though I do agree it's best to claim your games/keys as soon as possible.
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The point is they didn't save keys for people who had bought them, so if anything happens to the company who made a game or if they and Humble break ties your humble keys will not be guaranteed.
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When i create a gift link that makes a key with it?
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I have a recurring subscription from the old Humble Monthly. Does that mean I have extra benefits for the newly evolved Humble Choice with complete subscription? Also, with the latest it says you can choose your games - up to 10. But there are 10 games. So I basically just get them all?
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Also, with the latest it says you can choose your games - up to 10. But there are 10 games. So I basically just get them all?
Sorry, realized I forgot to answer your question:
Yes. you'll get all 10 games, but sometimes there may be more than 10, and in that case, you'll have to choose 10.
To be sure you're still on the Classic plan, you can check this link. https://www.humblebundle.com/subscription/home
It should say "YOU'RE ON THE CLASSIC PLAN", like in the image below.
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question:
is this (https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/12231/Shadow_of_the_Tomb_Raider_Definitive_Edition/) package less expensive if you have the base "definitive" from humble?
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Same here. Guess choices system works the other way
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i did...why would anyone want to be auto charged now? you can see every game day 1.At the very least we should have a day or two after the games come out before auto charging my fault i guess.
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Did you claim any of the December choice games (or the month) already? If so, I would almost guarantee that you already were charged for it. The autocharge date is, as I understand it, the default "we'll charge you if you don't cancel/pause and haven't revealed any of the codes earlier" date.
Did you have any unused monthly credits saved up from the old program? If so, it used one of them.
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The list doesn't reflect the actual region lock of the key. You can read the notification more like "For these countries we give region locked keys" rather than "Your key is region locked and will not activate in these countries".
Customers who get ROW keys will always see this kind of notification, as long as there are other countries that receive locked keys.
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You can read the notification more like "For these countries we give region locked keys" rather than "Your key is region locked and will not activate in these countries".
Thanks. Good to know. I have spent far longer than is enjoyable creating region-restricted giveaways for some games from them over the years, as I always assumed it to be "your key won't work in the following countries."
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Anyone have any news on the next choice at the end of this week?
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Nah, there will always be at least some complaints because new bundles will never be the same as they "used to be" at Humble.
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๐ธ Subscription + Bonuses
There's evidently been some recent quiet changes to the non-Classic subscription costs for non-USD regions.
Basically, instead of regional pricing based on payment method which was more closely tied to exchange rate, regional pricing is now a fixed amount for each region set by Humble. In the case of GBP, it is 6% higher than the previous regional pricing. (Reddit thread where I asked about it)
Apparently they have posted a support article about the change here: https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039435794 and linked to it in the new bit of text they have added to the "How much do I pay under a Classic plan?" paragraph of their default Humble Choice - Classic Plan FAQ article:
Additionally, it is worth noting, the Classic plan retains the USD pricing. It does not update to the region that you are currently located in. If you switch to any other Humble Choice plan you will be subject to pay under the currency of the region you currently reside in. More information on regional pricing here.https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036658733
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Hope this isn't a stupid question, but if I don't choose any games by the time the next choice monthly goes live, does that mean I'm locked out of choosing afterward? Since choice carrying over seems a good thing but I'm super indecisive (among other things) right now.. Since I paid for Dec I don't think I'd be locked out of anything so I don't wanna jump the gun until I got some better internet to look into the games more thoroughly XD
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They do not expire according to the official FAQ about Humble Choice
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I'm curious to see if they will have more then 10 games this time (since the faq says they'll have 10+ games each month).
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Just a heads up. I paused my subscription earlier in the month. Just went to check and I had a warning that I would be losing my classic status soon. I went to manage my subscription and it said I was an Active subscriber. Bit confusing. Anyway, I hit the pause button again and that seems to have sorted things.
You might want to check your subscription status before the reveals today.
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Weird - So you paused previously for December Humble Choice and did your warning appear on the "My Subscription" page, clicking the "Manage Your Subscription" button, or elsewhere?
I didn't pause for this recent December Humble Choice to be able to check for myself, but it does appear that I can pause even before January's Humble Choice is revealed later today as it says my "Next Billing Date" is near the end of January. Makes me curious if it is possible to pause for next month immediately after paying for the current month?
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You dont pay for next month till 3 weeks from now, unless you choose to pay early. But you will not have access to the games.
I understand that. Let me rephrase my question to be a specific scenario (which is not exactly related to BauerBoy24's concern):
If I were to buy today's January Humble Choice after it goes live, can I pause my subscription to prevent being autocharged for February? (I am aware that pausing means I suspend my subscriber benefits)
The fact that I paid for December Humble Choice and my "Next Billing Date" is currently near the end of January suggests to me that the answer to my question might be "Yes".
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This is where the warning appeared: https://prnt.sc/qixcb5. And I think the answer to your other question is yes :)
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Weirder still is that my subscription page says I paused the December bundle, but in fact I activated every game, so I don't know what's up with that.
Now as far as pausing January, I looked at the FAQ on it here, and if I'm reading it right, then we can pause January any time before the last Friday in January, giving us plenty of time to decide.
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I paused this month and just saw that under "your subscription" at https://www.humblebundle.com/subscription/home there's a "billing error" message...what? I'm just going to ignore it since everywhere else on the site my account looks fine.
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This is where my warning message appeared: https://prnt.sc/qixcb5. So maybe just make sure that box says the right thing and that the box below confirms that you are still on the classic plan.
What does the billing error message say exactly?
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Can't remember if I had the exact same message but pausing seemed to work for me.
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Thanks for the warning, I re-paused again as well just to be sure, don't want to risk losing my sweet classic plan! ๐
Here's hoping today's new crop of games is more up my alley, Tomb Raider was the only one last time I was even remotely interested in... ๐ฃ๐ค
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No problem. Something tells me we'll have to keep checking our status month to month to make sure Humble doesn't try to pull a sneaky on us ;)
Same story for me regarding this month's games. Fingers crossed we get some good ones today!
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For fucks sake, I hope they get their shit together
Being a bit short on money ATM buying the bundle was the last thing I wanted to do.. Randomly decided to check on Humbles page what it shows and had the same warning about billing error. For monthly they at least had the big pause icon on main page that showed if its paused or not...
Wouldnt have checked at the last minute I would have lost the classic plan.. I wonder now if this shit was done on purpose.. I suppose they can just say - a mistake was made while changing to Choice, but this would have thinned out a bunch of people who skipped and would have lost the Classic plan.
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Would like to give them the benefit of the doubt but seems like there has been a lot of these "glitches" in the past. Hopefully the people that don't notice this message don't lose their status. For the rest of us, I suggest we keep a close eye on our subscription page from now on.
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I paused the past month around December 20. And also when checking HB today I noticed that in the morning, but left it untouched. If it was a glitch, it's their mistake and not mine, so if there was any problem they should fix it. But now I found something odd:
This was early today: Image 1
This is now: Image 2
Somehow, I was automatically paused for this month (January)? By now I'm kind of lost. I haven't done anything and lost the subscriber status. My plan "will automatically renew on Friday, January 31, 2020"; but somehow I still have the classic plan (Month-to-Month Classic Plan).
Anyway, there's nothing interesting for me this month and will pause it anyway. But now I don't know when or how should I do that, since I should be an active subscriber by now, yet somehow it's the opposite status.
So confusing... (>_<)
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I doubt it will happen today. Last month we have already received the game from Square Enix. If they offer a game from Square Enix for the second month in a row, it will be strange. I think that they can offer us HITMANโข 2 โ Standard Edition , since in 2018 we were already offered HITMANโข - Game of The Year Edition.
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Last month Void Bastards was the only game from the leak that didn't apear in the bundle. I hope they saved it for this month.
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i wonder if they lower the quality to let the subscriber end their subscription so they can improve the quality for a better price^^
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Well when Humble switched Monthly to Choice, there are some people who didn't pause and cancelled all together based on principles, such as:
"I'm not going to support a company who increases prices almost 50% for new subscribers who want as many games as they got before in Humble Monthly vs Choice."
"I think the quality of monthly bundles were going downhill anyways. Might as well just buy other bundles or games on sale individually."
"Humble is not the same since they were bought by IGN"
I'm paraphrasing here as I don't hold all these views myself, but I understand where some people are coming from.
So even though compared to Humble Monthly people who continued on with Choice Classic (whether paused or paying) get the new benefits of being guaranteed 10 games and seeing them all before they buy, evidently principles like the ones above override those benefits for some people. So that's who would end their subscription.
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"I'm not going to support a company who increases prices almost 50% for new subscribers who want as many games as they got before in Humble Monthly vs Choice"
Who are these people? Humble are giving existing subscribers a perk because they were loyal - most companies would throw existing customers to the dogs and chase new customers with sweetener deals.
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thats an interesting way of seeing things. i would make the first 3 months better than average, so people see a clear difference compared to the old subscription.
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December 2019 Humble Choice
06 Dec 2019 - 03 Jan 2020
View this bundle on: ITAD - Barter.vg - Lestrades
๐ Important dates
๐ณ December 27th, 2019: AUTOCHARGE DATE (for subscribers only)
๐ January 3rd 2020: Next Choice Bundle release date (first Friday of every month)
โ ๏ธ Region lock โ ๏ธ
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Activates as "Shadow of the Tomb Raider [Game only] (RU/CIS+)"
Run-lock: can only be played in those countries
Blasphemous
Warning: Shadow of the Tomb Raider is just the base game, even though the Steam library and store entries have been renamed to "Definitive Edition". It does not contain the Season Pass or other DLC. On Steam the missing DLC can be bought in one purchase via this bundle.
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Extras to claim for your games:
!addlicense ASF 371339,402433,317880
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How do I generate a Gift Link now?
Note: The guess / leak for Void Bastards is NOT included.
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๐ฎ Games:
Extras: Arrog - DRM-free Game
Retail:
๐ธ Subscription + Bonuses
In some regions, a sale tax is applied (example)
Note: There has been recent quiet changes to the non-Classic subscription costs for non-USD regions: regional pricing is now a fixed amount for each region set by Humble. More info here.
๐ Note about referrals
SteamGifts by default modifies all Fanatical.com, HumbleBundle.com, GamersGate.com links from all threads, adding the SteamGifts referral code. Whenever a user click or shares a link to one of the sites listed above, SteamGifts will earn a commission.
By using these reflinks, SteamGifts will receive $10 for new subscribers, 5% of Humble Store sales, 15% for bundles via the Humble Partner Program.
If you prefer, you can disable referral links from your settings panel.
๐ Informative links
Humble Choice FAQ
Official HB FAQ
Master thread of ongoing bundles!
๐ฐ Thanks to luckz for helping with the poll!
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