Too many Activations

[5in1K]

I finally sat down to activate my many Humble Bundle games and I get barely into it and Steam will not let me activate more. How long do I have to wait, I have the time to do it right now, not later. Very annoying, and no way to contact support.

[LowJack_VA1]

What is the big deal with waiting a while to activate some keys? Be more patient. Steam Support is working on stolen accounts and other account issues.

[Cathulhu]

Wait an hour.

[5in1K]

The big deal is I set aside time to do it, got about 20-30 games into my hundreds of games I need to activate, then was prevented from doing any more. I have ♥♥♥♥ to do and I'm thinking about it now.

[LowJack_VA1]

Contacting Steam Support isn't going change that you have to wait an hour. Steam Support won't even get back to you for 2 to 4 days. That's if they get back to you, at all.

[5in1K]

Obviously because there's no way to contact their support. This is stupid, I bought the games, let me have the games.

[ShelLuser]

No, you bought a code. That's not exactly the same as buying the game itself.

[Crazy Tiger]

There is no reason to contact Support about this, as that will not change anything.

The limit is there to make things a hassle for the card farmer bots and such, I believe.

Just have patience.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by 5in1K:

Obviously because there's no way to contact their support. This is stupid, I bought the games, let me have the games.

You can easily contact steam support, but its working as intended and they aren't going to remove a major security feature just because you couldn't be bothered to activate the games and wanted to wait till you had hundreds.

They won't allow mass activation because otherwise people would just run bots to try to guess activation codes. You'll have to do it in batches.

So just have to show some patience and do em over time.

[5in1K]

Whatever, I bought a code pedant, I don't understand why this hour or two process has to now be dragged out over days. It's stupid.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by 5in1K:

Whatever, I bought a code pedant, I don't understand why this hour or two process has to now be dragged out over days. It's stupid.

Again, you were told why. Without a delay people would create bots to spam code activation's non stop and would steal codes by brute forcing.

[5in1K]

Cool, why not make it if you try to a handful activate fake codes it shuts you out instead of a bunch of good codes with no mistakes? I've been avoiding this because it would take too long and now it's even more time.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by 5in1K:

Cool, why not make it if you try to a handful activate fake codes it shuts you out instead of a bunch of good codes with no mistakes? I've been avoiding this because it would take too long and now it's even more time.

I believe the limit is lower if you activate invalid codes.

It also helps limit the damage if say someone got access to your humble account and for instance stole all your games on it you had yet to activate, or if your computer was ever compromised. It's something a lot of sites do, and is not unique to steam

Again, its hardly a big deal, it takes seconds to activate a game from humble, so just do it in batches. You've been sitting on them long enough to get hundreds of codes, so a few days longer isn't going to matter.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by 5in1K:

The big deal is I set aside time to do it, got about 20-30 games into my hundreds of games I need to activate, then was prevented from doing any more. I have ♥♥♥♥ to do and I'm thinking about it now.

That's a inbuilt security feature,. No way Valve should change that. YOU should change your ways.

The whole reason that is there is because it's to prevent scammers and so on setting up dummy accounts and bunging shedloads of games in asap or any other questionable activity.

I buy a lot of Humble Bundle and other charity bundle games myself. And you know what I do? Activate them at the time. I've never hit that limit, even after the recent COVID-inspired bundle of massiveness that they did where it was around 40 games.

Surely that's not too much to ask?

Consider trying this - lerave those activations until something like last thing before you go to bed. Put them in then. If by any chance you do have some left over them for the next night.

It's impossible for you to play all those games in one whole day so they can wait.

[Kargor]

Also, it doesn't matter whether you like it or not. Steam likes it that way, and support will NEVER reset cooldowns and similar things.

Complain as much as you want, it's not going to change anything.

[LowJack_VA1]

It shouldn't matter how many codes OP is trying to register, the codes don't expire, unless there are other reasons that OP has to have hundreds of codes registered right now.