Humble Bundle - Old Keys - Gone for Good

This kinda seems like the opposite of a deal, so I think General is fine.

There's already a thread for that and it will just confuse everything. They have been restocking some keys, just not all, so this thread marks the ones confirmed as keys that will never get restocked.

Thanks! Added - Yep, same general response I had for the other keys.

There are lots that are marked "out of stock" but they are pretending they'll restock them.
I think the thread is for people who opened support tickets and got confirmation that the keys will not be restocked.

Hey thanks for the info. Like Fluffster stated, this list is for the ones that are confirmed not to be replenished. If you have confirmation they won't be restocked, let me know. I'll add it to the list. I hope you get your keys soon!

Agreed, I think that one is likely a lost cause when looking for any credit.

Glad I could do a little to help out ^^

I'm going to assume they won't be restocked, and be pleasantly surprised if they do.

Thanks for responding to a couple of the other posts / questions from others ;)

I hope they do get in the habit of keeping a cache of keys that are pre-allocated per bundle. Of course, HB isn't the one creating the key batches, and would have to rely on the devs / publishers to do so. I also believe there's a limit of keys able to be generated via Steam. I might look into all of this for funsies to see what I can dig up.

I think all customers would feel better if it didn't feel like a shell game at times. (Purchased a bundle, might not receive a key for fulfilment. If fulfilled, no telling when that may happen). I'm sure (at least I hope) there must be valid reasons for all of this, but it doesn't feel great not knowing the how's and whys. Maybe Steam doesn't allow a publisher to generate more keys until a set number or percentage of previous keys were redeemed or invalidated? Perhaps the reason there's such an issue lately is not due to IGN, but the popularity of the bundles and more people sitting on keys? Hard to say.

Also, it would make sense keys wouldn't be available if after a period a studio may go out of business, agreements expire, etc. If HB gives itself a 3 year activation period, then they don't have to worry so much if later down the line a game company can't or won't generate more keys.

Overall, I've had a good experience with HB purchases, not going to knock what they are doing for raising money for charities. Pretty awesome idea. Just feel like there's a layer of fat here that's grown over the whole process and it could go back to being simple and straightforward - likely not going to happen, especially if any of what I'm speculating above is correct.

As for the worst case I've experienced - I've been waiting since just a month after the bundle for my Astral Ascent key (August 2024 Choice). At first I wasn't going to buy the bundle at all, but I decided in the end to purchase it, right at the end of the month. After purchasing it, I wasn't going to activate or play this game. Then, after a couple weeks of doing more research on the game, I figured it was actually worth giving a go. Tried to get a key, met with the out of stock message. Its been months now, with no replenishment notice. Support informs me that these keys will be replenished, but no way of knowing when at this point.

Definitely agree on all of that!

Thank you! Added 🙃