I know you can pause the next payment but my next payment is like a couple of days after season 3 starts. I wish I could just pause my time until then or until I’m ready to play again.
Satisfactory is my new addiction.
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Last I checked, you can still pause your subscription in the account settings
You can but your active play time will only last until the next payment date. You can’t carry that over.
I mean honestly pausing is pretty much the same thing as canceling.
Me too. I’d pause it every time I needed sleep or needed a break.
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i need to pause when i eat so i agree we need this now
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Would be cool if we could, but sadly, no, there is no way to pause any game time on the account.
This is why I always buy six month and one year subscriptions. My sub is not scheduled to run out until November 2026.
I do the same thing, but usually in 6 month spurts. I feel a lot less “obligated” to play and can go mess with other games (Planet Crafter is my current jam) when I know I still have several months of time left. Like right now I’m still good all the way until the end of October, so if I don’t play for a week I’m not sweating it. If I was doing month by month I’d be like “Gawddamn I wasted 25% of my sub”.
Any subscription services dont have the option to pause the time unused
Yeah, the perk of the 12 month subscription is saving three bucks a month so it’s basically a five months get one free. So even if I don’t play two weeks here one week there four days here as long as I don’t spend more than a month away from the game and actually get to play a little bit each month I’m getting my moneys worth. Not to mention that that price I also got free mounts and whatever else came with the package.
WoW has 7 million monthly subscribers by most estimates, which means it pulls in 100 million dollars a month. Your proposed change, while certainly good for players, very convenient, and pro-consumer, would cost Blizzard, let’s estimate here…
lets say you pause your play time for 3 days per month on average. That’s a fair guess right? I’m sure most of us have at least 3 days a month where we don’t log onto wow. So over the course of a year, that adds up to one less $15 monthly subscription you have purchased. So over all players, that adds up to about 100 million lost revenue per year, and this is with generous numbers.
Do you want to be the guy that loses Microsoft/Activision/Blizzard a hundred million dollars? Losing your job would be the least of your worries. They’d hire the mafia to fit you some cement shoes.
Playing Satisfactory is dangerous, it has a tendency to create a disruption in the fabric of time and space that seemingly pushes time forward within this universe by several hours without you ever noticing.
Be cautious.
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lil’ treat money 
2 free months when you pay for 10 and free stuff. Makes me feel better about not logging in for a week sometimes.
I’m already starting to fall into that. I’ve not been playing long at all (maybe 40-ish hours total) and last night around 7pm I was like I’ll just set up some steel production and before I knew it it was 11:15pm.
It’s so good though.
Just to clarify, the 6- and 12-month sub plans are both the same cost per month. Would be nice if the full year did bump the discount up just a bit more though.
it’s also only 2 bucks saved per month
I mean if we wanna get really technical it’s probably closer to 2.50 a month by the time you factor out the sales tax and a handful of other fees that probably go into it. And then if we wanna get super technical $155 for a 12 month subscription which also happens to include two amounts, two pets, and 30 days of game time. That all by itself is a $90 value which makes it $65 for 12 months, but I figured I wouldn’t borrow anybody with the details.
I personally haven’t looked into it too much myself, but aren’t basically all benefits of the 12-month sub also applied to the 6-month? The only ones that aren’t are the promos that specifically require the 12-month commitment, which aren’t too common. Stuff like the recent Herald of Sa’bak are just a 6-month promo for example, which are naturally included in the 12-month as well but not exclusive to it.
I usually tend to do the 12 month subscriptions particularly for the better pricing. By the time I do the entire breakdown of what’s included in the package the actual subscription works out to be somewhere between $55-$65 per year if you assign a price value from the cash shop to the extra items that were added to the bundle, including the 30 days of game time when applicable. So even at $65 a year that’s still only a little over five dollars a month for the subscription because I would’ve bought the other cosmetic stuff anyway.