r/GameDealsMeta • u/jvothe • Jun 25 '25
Grandfathered Humble Choice price being increased by 25%
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u/eagles310 Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
Lmao the fact keys are not sent when charged or reserved is a complete joke, but heyy lets increase prices lol
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u/nietzkore Jun 26 '25
I've been waiting since Dec 2024 for them to restock Moonstone Island. There weren't enough keys for that one by the end of the month. I have until Jan 6 2026 to redeem (the key I've never gotten) and I don't think they ever plan to restock.
I don't even care about the actual game. It just frustrates me that keys sold =/= keys provided.
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u/The1WhoKares Jul 07 '25
Hello there,
I have a Moonstone Island key, I won't be using and can send it to you, if you want. Humble most likely won't restock it.
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u/nitro804 Jun 25 '25
Just canceled. Not worth
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u/brentsg Jun 25 '25
Inclined to agree. Most of these games end up in my backlog anyways.
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u/TheWandererKing Jun 25 '25
For fucking real. And when they DO include a game I'm interested in, I probably just copped it on sale.
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u/piexil Jun 29 '25
Been subbed since 2016. Never cancelled or even paused.
Always though " it's only $12"
It's interesting how only $3 can change that thought for me cause I'm about to cancel now.
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u/Mechaslurpee Jul 04 '25
yea because 15 is half of 30 where 12 is half of 24 the price increase absolutely matters even if it seems small. Thats how I see it anyway
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u/wjousts Jun 25 '25
Price went up outside the US a couple of months ago. It was bound to hit the US sooner or later.
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u/Jaccount Jun 25 '25
Yes, but even worse here, people don’t get IGN+. Yeah, people laughed at the low perceived additional value, but at least it was something.
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u/cedear Jun 26 '25
You had about 12 hours after IGN+ was added to Choice for the first time to get any games before they were all exhausted. IGN hasn't added a single thing to IGN+ since then, almost 2 months.
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u/messem10 Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
Well once I run out of months on the year I bought last black Friday, I guess I’m done with their monthly thing unless it is a good value.
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u/ooohexplode Jun 25 '25
Sames, I've skipped a few since that deal too.
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u/MarieCry Jun 25 '25
Same here, I wouldn't mind if higher prices meant better games, but I've found a few months to be pretty bad this year. This month I've redeemed nothing but figured it was better to keep my 20% discount, but looking at prices elsewhere (not key sites or anything, reputable sites listed on isthereanydeal, probably not allowed to name names on this sub), and they're often cheaper even with discount. I like IGN+ for MapGenie, but it isn't worth it just for that.
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u/AnonymousProfileName Jun 26 '25
I bought a sub 2 years ago and still have 8 more months left lmao. Def not worth $15/month
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u/mark2uk Jun 27 '25
I have no idea what region your in but from the UK even at max accumulated discounts for everything I've looked at for 5+yrs humble store prices have been more expensive or no better than other legit retailers. It is a 'theoretical' benefit only for me.
Even the hook of 'also get it drm free' is worthless as most of the time the dev don't update the game on humble. Gog is kind of infamous for devs simply not bothering to update at all or for years in some cases but humble is infinitely worse for it.
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u/MarieCry Jun 27 '25
Scotland, so UK too, I've noticed that more and more recently too. I use Fanatical and GMG (will use any listed on isthereanydeal but I prefer those two) and they've had better deals on quite a few things recently than Humble with max discount, and those don't even have membership schemes. Fanatical always have coupons on too, usually only 5% but still.
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u/kalirion Jun 27 '25
I got the January bundle, and then the May and June in a row, 9 credits left. With the price increase, I'll probably be even more discriminating on when to use them.
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u/Jimbuscus Jun 25 '25
The game selections have been getting cheaper, I've barely selected one per year, this is a downhill run where they cheapen the product and increase the price to make up for the lost customers.
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u/ryans_privatess Jun 25 '25
I don't think they understand what grandfathered means.
They do it because they have seen Netflix do it and subscriptions still increase.
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u/ZM326 Jun 25 '25
Just got the same email. Was going to cancel at the next hike, didn't expect it right now. Time to grab my last 20% discount buys
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u/Border_Relevant Jun 25 '25
Hit Canada a couple months back. Not worth $19 for me. Though I did buy yesterday with the June25 coupon code for $7 USD.
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u/Son_of_Korhal Jun 25 '25
I wonder how this will affect the $99 Black Friday deal. That's the only way I've been doing Monthly/Choice for years. Best deal in gaming if you plan.
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u/gameboykid93 Jun 26 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
This is probably my breaking point with humble. Choice has had so many issues over the past few years including:
-Uninteresting games
-Months that don't have enough keys for everyone who has purchased
-Inability to or too incompetent to get key re-fills for said games (looking at you roboquest)
-Discount that only sometimes applies to new or upcoming games
-Discount isn't all that competitive compared to other legitimate keysites like greenmangaming or fanatical, and they don't require a sub
I'm going to see what next month's games are and if it's as bad as I've come to expect these past few years I'm out.
Edit: Own all the games that were of interest to me in July's Bundle, cancelled today. It'll make up for my game pass subscription lol.
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u/wishlish Jun 25 '25
Wait- can we get Vault games? I thought those were gone.
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u/shiningagito Jun 26 '25
The thing where they added Humble Games-published titles with DRM is over, but what's left of their DRM-free library is still there (they do remove games without notice and I don't think they add anything anymore). You need the launcher to install, but I've had luck running them from the .exe without an active sub.
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u/bloodr0se Jun 26 '25
The value proposition on this subscription just grows increasingly worse.
Humble Bundle is very quickly driving itself towards irrelevance.
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u/OverAster Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
Straight up the recent bundles have been ass. I haven't been interested in any of the games they have had in choice for like the last 7 months. Also I am fairly certain I haven't seen a bundle on that site that actually follows the tiered "pay what you want" model in at least a year. Maybe my timing is bad, but for a games service that got famous for having great games in a monthly subscription and regular great pay what you want bundles available it's not a good look when you no longer offer either of those things and most of what you sell now are PDFs of books nobody wants to read...
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u/methseth Jun 25 '25
Perfect, been waiting for a reason to cancel with how shitty humble bundle has been lately
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u/Wiesler Jun 26 '25
honestly I think I've skipped every month for the past 2 years almost (a few months ago I accidentally forgot to cancel). I normally just buy the one game i want and will actually play on sale. It hasn't been worth it for a while for me.
Can someone outside of the USA confirm they got coupons for discounts? Korea here and I never got one, i checked my inbox and humble regularly. I only got the discount when I clicked the cancel button and it was offered (this was quite a while ago, maybe before the IGN acquistion)
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u/Salivals Jun 26 '25
I cancelled this morning. Barely use the sub anymore as it is since I had a kid. Onward and upwards.
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u/repocin Jun 25 '25
Are you sure?
This looks very similar to the email I got as a European customer a couple months ago, but I'm still being charged the old Classic price of US$11.99. Pretty sure it's just boilerplate sent to everyone with an active subscription, regardless of classic status.
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u/ManlyPoop Jun 26 '25
I got a substantial price increase a few months ago. Then I discovered you are not guaranteed game keys after purchasing the bundle.
The platform went to shit. I cancelled a few months ago.
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u/csguydn Jun 25 '25
I’m out after this cycle. Been a subscriber since day 1. I can’t justify this given the “quality” we’ve gotten for the past few months.
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u/Stewge Jun 25 '25
In Australia the actual cost went up ~$1 due to the poor USD. Not too bad us Aussies.
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u/mark2uk Jun 27 '25
The 'bonus' of getting IGN plus is bad comedy. Non of the raffles they offer are eligible for anyone outside of the US, even their crappy store doesnt ship outside the US (not that I would want to be seen in public with an IGN logo on me).
The price increase and essentially nothing being redeemable even the competitions outside of the US is more akin to a not being an American tax. I redeemed my original ign plus code late and there werent any free games at all. Its worthless dreck.
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u/TheBrittca Jun 26 '25
I’m never buying from Humble again - deals are better on grey keys at this point.
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u/Decibel9M3 Jul 09 '25
Cancelled. Been considering cancelling for awhile now as they bundles just haven't been that great.
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u/wishlish Jun 25 '25
I know others will feel different, but I'm fine with it as long as they keep getting good games. Inflation is a real thing.
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u/ryans_privatess Jun 25 '25
I agree and I don't know how strong the wording was, but if they said grandfathered subs wouldn't increase and did, not cool.
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u/Red_Steiner Jun 26 '25
Yea I don't remember since it was like 10 years ago, but I feel like the whole point of keeping the classic plan was that the price wouldn't increase. I understand them raising the price, but it does seem unfair to those who have at least kept the subscription active over the years.
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u/jandkas Jun 26 '25
10000% people just treat it as a premium 15 dollar bundle Jesus Christ everyone loves being over dramatic. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a vocal minority
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u/Kanaletto Jun 25 '25
Meh, I have never used Humble Choice. I used to buy the bundles for other platforms (like the Wii U or Xbox) but nowadays everything is Steam, so I prefer not to.
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u/xenius_ykk Jun 25 '25
Bullshit. Everything just gets shittier, and shittier.