Too many recent activation attempts

[Legoless]

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

I can't believe this is still an issue when attempting to mass activate retail keys. This is a bug—fix it.

[Mad Scientist]

Wait an hour and try again, if you keep trying you'll keep getting a cooldown.

It's also not a bug, at all.

[my new friend]

Exactly 1 hour for the cooldown and it resets if you even attempt another in that cooldown.

[Washell]

Originally posted by Legoless:

I can't believe this is still an issue when attempting to mass activate retail keys. This is a bug—fix it.

It's to stop abuse by people. As long as people don't change, neither will this. It's not an issue nor a bug, it's a deliberate feature.

[my new friend]

We all got the Humble Bundle 123 titles for $40.

[rawWwRrr]

I hit it from time to time. I just make a note of which title it stopped on and continue later on. It's not that big of a deal.

[valeforheya]

well its silly to have a limit like that but flip side understand why, you would think thye adjust the number even if temporly when somewhere like humble dose this to avoid the issue.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by valeforheya:

well its silly to have a limit like that but flip side understand why, you would think thye adjust the number even if temporly when somewhere like humble dose this to avoid the issue.

The activation process has to be protected to prevent mass activating keys and the possible abuse that comes with this like scripts to guess keys.

[Cugar07]

Years before it was 30minutes for 30keys / 50 keys now its 60 minutes for 50 keys. It's still not a good idea to block it cause who else would redeem games or dlc's for an account except then you. Maybe it's there for you to overthink how much money you actually gave out. ._.

[[sBf] Sirphr]

That Stand with Ukraine Bundle mane...

[Legoless]

I got better things to do with my day than wait for an hour cooldown

[Reyos]

Originally posted by ⚡C̲u̲g̲a̲r̲0̲7̲⚡:

Years before it was 30minutes for 30keys / 50 keys now its 60 minutes for 50 keys. It's still not a good idea to block it cause who else would redeem games or dlc's for an account except then you. Maybe it's there for you to overthink how much money you actually gave out. ._.

The reason they do it is so people can't bot to brute force key attempts. The most common key format for keys on Steam has only 221,073,919,720,733,357,899,776 combinations. A bot could be programmed to try them all, and most won't work but it will probably find several working ones within a day or so. The issue is if you keep putting in valid keys, it shouldn't trigger this, as long as the keys work every time it should be obvious you have a lot of legitimate keys and aren't just trying possible keys.

[davidb11]

I mean, that many combinations and even the fastest computer right now, would take a few hundred million years to get any real amount of codes. :P
Brute Force I mean.
it's the slowest.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by valeforheya:

well its silly to have a limit like that but flip side understand why, you would think thye adjust the number even if temporly when somewhere like humble dose this to avoid the issue.

No because that would also allow scammers and abusers in too.

You think scammers wouldn't use this?

[Gish]

There is a really easy fix for this. Only count failed attempts.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Gish:

There is a really easy fix for this. Only count failed attempts.

If it was an easy fix, they would do it or they just don't want to.