I'm puzzled, too, why this has to be such a complicated thing to implement. Believe me, I 100% understand how downloading all this stuff at once could nuke the servers of a company of any size. I'm not asking for that, nor could I even begin to need immediate access to 1000+ new games at once. However, the games themselves are quite difficult to navigate and keep track of in the one big unordered list on the Purchases page. Is there a reason they shouldn't all be part of a user's Library? Is simply adding them to the Library without downloading them such a huge server strain for itch.io? Is it a similar strain on Itch's infrastructure for all the users who bought the bundle to click each individual Claim It! button over the course of however many hours that would take? Because that's the course of action we have available to us right now, and I sure hope Itch isn't counting on us just giving up because it's too much work for their servers. How about some drastically rate-limited form of automation of this process on a "best effort" basis? The bundle ended back in mid-June. If I had been able to claim (Not download! Just claim!) one title every hour since then, the whole process would have been done long ago, and I probably would have gotten to play a lot more of them than I have. One title an hour still too much of a strain? Fine, how about one every six hours? The bundle would take a year to completely enter my library......but I can live with that! Just have some respect for our time and don't make us do a bunch of stuff by hand that could be easily automated, regardless of how slowly it needs to process to be practical.
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“Is there a reason they shouldn’t all be part of a user’s Library?”
For me there is: Clutter! I have no interest in most of the things in this bundle - which shouldn’t come as a big surprise for a bundle of this extremely generous magnitude. I currently have no use for the asset packs, the Unity games, the vast majority of the TTRPGs, things that have only a single screenshot… And I’m already at the point where I’m collecting links to ask itch.io’s support team to remove those entries from my library again. Right now some users are complaining that they don’t have everything they legally own marked as “theirs” - and I get that, I really do: Before I think “Should I buy this game?” my first thought is “Do I already own that game?” and than I cave to copy the name and paste it into the bundle’s search box. But: It would be far more inconvenient for me to navigate almost two thousand things - in a similar fashion I would have to navigate the bundle, I’d like to point out.
And that’s the reason that I don’t chime in and repeatedly ask for a feature that the admin(s?) already know the demand about. Don’t get me wrong: Always fight for the things you believe in! I’m just offering a different point of view. I’m not against there being an option to claim all those game - but I can foresee the flood of requests for an “undo”-button as well…