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"Connect Your Steam Account

To purchase Steam game collections, you need to connect your Steam account for verification purposes."

Seriously?

Quoting: AsciiWolf"Connect Your Steam Account

To purchase Steam game collections, you need to connect your Steam account for verification purposes."

Seriously?

I won't be doing that. Didn't Humble try something like this years ago?

I'm curious what the issue is with that? It's so they can ensure people actually buy games they want and actually redeem them, instead of sucking up cheap keys to put up on a reseller.

about the connecting steam account. As an example I already got one of the games, Boltgun, from Humble Choice. It appears there with the following note (emphasis mine):

Already Owned - Trade it for 90 Credits!

You already own this game on Steam, so you can't redeem another key. However, you can trade it in for 90 credits to get other games from the Exchange!

On a previously bundle I had the same with Shadows of Doubt which I also owned, so I exchanged for credits and switched for Dishonoured instead.

It might be a bummer not to get extra keys, but frankly they were either collecting dust or being gifted away on Steam Gifts, so having the option to select other games instead (even though if not a big variety / trade ratio) is welcome.

From the lasts entry of their [Exchange FAQ](https://sites.google.com/digiphile.co/help/exchange)

Why This Matters

Unused or unredeemed keys affect our ability to negotiate high-quality collections with developers and publishers, while also impacting their ability to obtain keys from Steam. By linking your Steam account and keeping your play data current, you're helping us:

- Reduce key reselling on the grey market
- Obtain better titles for future collections
- Help our partners obtain more keys for future collections
- Launch upcoming community-driven features

We believe the Exchange is the first step in building a stronger, more rewarding experience for the Digiphile community, and we're excited for everyone to try it out!

As long as they don't sell the data, and keep the analytics / business optimisation to themselves as any other normal company I don't see an issue. It's not like they'll have Steam's credit card info, and even then, steam should best not be tied to personal info in the first place, specially has lots of features (first & third party) that rely on having a public profile.

If it were not a steam only key reseller, I would be more wary.

So basically, you want to set up a spare Steam account and link that account to this. Allowing you to get access to all the keys.

Quoting: nullzeroabout the connecting steam account. As an example I already got one of the games, Boltgun

Same. I have some questions; anybody know answers to any of them?

1) They say the keys expire 90 days after the bundle starts. So if you have not redeemed, gifted, or exchanged when the expiration is getting close, do they warn you in any way? Or do they just silently expire?

2) If you have not synced your Steam library, and redeem, you can get a Steam key for something you already own. Do unused keys expire after the 90 days, or just keys that have not been redeemed/gifted?

3) If you choose to gift a key, it prompts for an email address, which seems reasonable. Does the recipient get a key, or do they need to have/create a digiphile account first (like humblebundle requires for using gift links)? Has anyone sent a "gift" to themselves? I've seen random grumblings that gifting wasn't working, but I took it with a grain of salt.

Like others, I have Boltgun already. The exchange value is fairly low / there's nothing interesting for that value at the moment (and the Steam library syncing does not filter out what you already own from that list). I could hold onto the points for future accumulation, assuming they will have another bundle that looks attractive (previous ones didn't do it for me, although I was tempted a bit by Fallen Aces). But I may also want to gift it to someone within the next (slightly less than) 90 days. I just don't want to forget about it, and have it silently expire...

I've actually sent them an email since I was also interested in the official answer for it, hope its not an issue. (Their answer is the unquoted > part)

1) They say the keys expire 90 days after the bundle starts. So if you have not redeemed, gifted, or exchanged when the expiration is getting close, do they warn you in any way? Or do they just silently expire?

> 1. We will have reminder emails in place for soon-to-expire keys in your library, at least a week in advance. We're discussing partial credit for the Exchange if we've verified you own the game, but this is still a work in progress, and not something I can speak to definitively before the current collections will expire.

2) If you have not synced your Steam library, and redeem, you can get a Steam key for something you already own. Do unused keys expire after the 90 days, or just keys that have not been redeemed/gifted?

> 2. All unredeemed keys expire at 90 days after a collection has launched. It's important to redeem keys ASAP, and not just reveal them. However, while revealing the key will help avoid them from expiring immediately at the 90-day mark, we cannot guarantee they will be redeemable past that point, and cannot offer replacements if our partners disable unredeemed batches of keys.

3) If you choose to gift a key, it prompts for an email address, which seems reasonable. Does the recipient get a key, or do they need to have/create a digiphile account first (like humblebundle requires for using gift links)? Has anyone sent a "gift" to themselves? I've seen random grumblings that gifting wasn't working, but I took it with a grain of salt.

> 3. The recipient of a gift will need to create a Digiphile account in order to receive it. Gifting works without any issues, but we do sometimes see people not receive the gift email; however, this mostly appears to boil down to email domain issues, or emails being marked as spam. We can reverse gifts if you experience any issues, or they time out and are returned automatically after 7 days. Self-gifting isn't possible at this time. Alternatively, you can click the "Redeem on Steam" option to reveal a key and manually send it to the recipient.

4) [ADDED BY ME] Concerning this is the Steam account link mandatory or just for to activate the exchange/gifting ability

> 4. Having a linked Steam account is mandatory for purchasing Game Collections, as well as a one-time sync to verify your Steam level (bot and fraud protection). You do not have to sync you Steam library, as this is only used for the Exchange feature.

EDIT: Added missing emphasis in bold from the original email response

Last edited by nullzero on 2 Mar 2026 at 7:48 pm UTC