too many recent activation attempts

[mike]

I purchased a humble bundle with 24 titles. After activating the first half-dozen games or so the steam site prevents me from activating any more, showing this error:

"There have been too many recent activation attempts from this account or Internet address. Please wait and try your product code again later."

This is clearly a bug - how do I get steam to fix it?

[Three English Letters شازام]

I Thought They Let You Activate Up To 50 Products Before The Cooldown.
It's Around 30 Minutes By The Way.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by mike:

I purchased a humble bundle with 24 titles. After activating the first half-dozen games or so the steam site prevents me from activating any more, showing this error:

"There have been too many recent activation attempts from this account or Internet address. Please wait and try your product code again later."

This is clearly a bug - how do I get steam to fix it?

Not a bug, security precaution. You fix it by waiting a little bit.

[Qbert ⭐]

We just answer your question here: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2254560552290330923/

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by mike:

I purchased a humble bundle with 24 titles. After activating the first half-dozen games or so the steam site prevents me from activating any more, showing this error:

"There have been too many recent activation attempts from this account or Internet address. Please wait and try your product code again later."

It's not like you can play all those games you activated to completion before the cooldown is over anyway.

The keys are still going to be good when the cooldown is over, so there is nothing to worry about, really.

[Qbert ⭐]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by mike:

I purchased a humble bundle with 24 titles. After activating the first half-dozen games or so the steam site prevents me from activating any more, showing this error:

"There have been too many recent activation attempts from this account or Internet address. Please wait and try your product code again later."

It's not like you can play all those games you activated to completion before the cooldown is over anyway.

The keys are still going to be good when the cooldown is over, so there is nothing to worry about, really.

Just as he said, the keys are there for you, dont rush it, activate the games you want to play first, then go for the rest, start downloading a few of them and play, Im sure the cooldown will be faster like this.... And just out of curiosity, how many games did you purchase?

[ClayJitsu]

I can definitely understand mike's frustration with buying games and then not being able to immediately redeem them.

[a.j]

This just happened to me, I was trying to activate 12 keys today and I could only activate 3 before that messaged popped up, never happened to me before, and I have activated more than 30 games back to back in the past, so this is clearly a bug as it literally happened after only activating 3 games.

[Jak Constantine]

Same tryed buying some and it wouldn’t worked. After attempts it gave me the same message. Funny cause I haven’t bought anything since the purchase screen is bugged.

[Ettanin]

Originally posted by mike:

Internet address.

not a bug if you use CGNAT or Dual Stack lite. You are not the only one on that IPv4 address. In that case you share the number of individual key activations (successful or failed) with that other person.

[Bavanity]

Experienced this for the first time right now. Am going through all my humble bundle monthly games and some bundles I never activated, I have activated 44 games so that must be the limit, I have 2 to go and it won't let me. It's a bit stupid, I mean doesn't steam know they are ALL humble keys?

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Bavanity:

Experienced this for the first time right now. Am going through all my humble bundle monthly games and some bundles I never activated, I have activated 44 games so that must be the limit, I have 2 to go and it won't let me. It's a bit stupid, I mean doesn't steam know they are ALL humble keys?

Read the thread as the asnwer is given.

Valve does know they are keys only. Whether they're Humble Bundle is absolutely irrelevant.

This is a security measure. All you can do is do as it says - leave it for some time and enter some then. It's not as if it makes any diference.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Bavanity:

Experienced this for the first time right now. Am going through all my humble bundle monthly games and some bundles I never activated, I have activated 44 games so that must be the limit, I have 2 to go and it won't let me. It's a bit stupid, I mean doesn't steam know they are ALL humble keys?

The cooldown is exactly 1 hour after you get the message.
DONT try to activate a key before the hour is up, that just resets the hour.

[Kop!con[HUN]]

I just purchased a game on G2A, I haven't activated any games for more than a year at least and this was the message I received at the first attempt that I tried it too many times. Is there any bug with this process currently?

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Originally posted by Kop!conHUN:

I just purchased a game on G2A, I haven't activated any games for more than a year at least and this was the message I received at the first attempt that I tried it too many times. Is there any bug with this process currently?

Are you using a VPN? Bruteforce protection is often done using IP so if someone else was activating games using the same IP it could be triggered.

[Kop!con[HUN]]

I have VPN on my computer but I am not using it at the moment, I originally wanted to buy the game on Steam but it also showed me that there are some temporary errors, and try again...
Is it possible that the problem is with the country of my store that is not the same as the country I am currently staying in?