I don’t share many of the same criticisms of HumbleBundle as most, and have been a happy subscriber for a long time.
But wow this shit is unacceptable. Straight up removed 2FA without any notification, allow passwords changes without any security. Insane. I will be cancelling my subscription for the first time in over a decade, this is truly inexcusable security fuck up.
For context: Humble Bundle was acquired by IGN in 2017 and the founders are no longer involved.
And IGN is ultimately owned by Ziff Davis.
You’re saying thats a real guy and not a Saturday morning cartoon character?
That’s when I stopped using Humble Bundle. They ruined the site / service.
On the bright side, it only made me confirm cancelling Humble Choice once, instead of the usual 4 times or whatever.
Just cancelled my membership as well. As others have noted already, they’ve gone waaaay downhill since the IGN purchase last decade. I would normally just skip a month as sometimes they’d have one or two games I had fleeting interest in. I am beyond sick of vibe/slop coded crap and I wish I could snap my fingers to erase it all.
somebody forgot to prompt it with “no errors”… /s
but fr: the only good part about humble bundle in the last couple of years has been the flood of cheap keys on the aftermarket
That implies the Ai made the mistake. But the human probably never prompted and thought or tested for security. If anything, they forgot to prompt “make it secure”.
People are overrating. In fact, having no security means they don’t have anything to hide and therefore no one will hack the site. Simple logic, just think about it.
/s
And yes, the sarcasm flag is needed, for some snowflakes.
Hopefully the deletion process is secure…
The first Humble Bundle was so awesome
A few bundles after it was awesome too. It gradually got worse, but that was to be expected. This couldn’t go forever. And that’s okay. But when IGN took over, it died completely.
It’s downright unusable. Had to pass multiple Cloudflare captchas to log in, but no 2-factor. The library only shows 5 items at a time now, so it’s 500 pages long for me, which I can’t even sort to only show unredeemed items. Order history just shows order numbers and I have to click on each item to see what I actually ordered. UI elements are randomly strewn about, with no coherent design. WTF Humble.
the library has a subsection for bundles, and opening a bundle shows which keys are redeemed or not. But yea, not really as usable as it was before. I guess 5 rows at a time fits nicely on phone screen, but… is that really the use case here?
The bundles page also doesn’t show Humble Choice bundles though, so those keys are buried somewhere in the neverending list. I have to click past 9 pages just to get past the latest bundle I bought (Mapmaking Bundle).
More like Fumble Bundle, am I right?
Fumble Mumble
A week ago I asked for my account to be deleted. I was getting tired of Humble Choice, I couldn’t find anything for good deals on their market and I was awfully tired of IGN shoving their shit down everyone’s throats since they own Humble Bundle.
Plus a lot of the content they pick, are caught between garbage nobody asked for, content people would want are in upper tiers on purpose or content that made no sense to have been bundled with anyways.
They have been handling Humble Choice awfully for a while now, because they pick a lot of games that were only rated ‘Mostly Positive’ or just ‘Positive’ that nobody ever heard of nor care about.
It’s always funny over in the HB subreddit how people shit on those not liking the bundles but are always “happy” to get the games or so. Yeah because you’re a digital game hoarder, of course you’d take it anyways.
When it comes to good deals, I guess it depends on what you’re looking for. Several of the recent Choice bundles had a few games I was interested in for a price that was below their historic low. They also had some really great e-book bundles recently where you basically got all the books from several well-known sci-fi authors for about 20€. So Humble deciding to enshittify completely does sting for me.
I had mine on auto-renew for five or so years but was mostly busy living with life and hobbies outside. Now there’s 800 games in my library and I’ll probably only play 100 of them.
yep, my account didn’t ask for 2fa when logging in.
Bold move to remove security features without notifying users.
I understood that if a game was offered DRM-free and as a Steam key, you would receive both. Looking at the store page now, it looks like you need to choose which one you want to purchase in a drop-down menu? Can anybody confirm whether they changed the functionality? That wouldn’t be just a change of layout but a fundamental functionality difference. A negative one.
It’s pretty awesome! They removed 2fa, sure, but they added the “magic code” so if anyone compromised your email they won’t even need your account password!
They also won’t let you remove a payment method, you’ll need to add another one to overwrite the old one!They really went overboard with the enshitification!
Edit: you can remove the payment method, but only when you cancel any subs you have.
You can request account deletion here: https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Would be tempting, but I don’t want to lose access to my unredeemed keys and DRM-free items. Not that I can even find those anymore, with the redesign being as shit as it is…
You should redeem your keys qnd wace them when you get the chance. There’s been some games humble bundles stopped providing keys for when requested.
remove your payment options, especially if you have connected PayPal, I removed it directly from PayPal because at this point I cannot even trust them to delete them correctly…
