what is the difference between “pausing” and “cancelling” subscription it seems like it’s the exact same thing.
I always cancel my sub until I’m ready to play again and I plan on doing that now for a couple months but is there a benefit to pausing instead?
thx for the help
Idk what “pausing” means. I certainly haven’t seen that option before.
If I’m reading the page correctly, pausing basically just skips your next payment then automatically resumes after that. Cancelling stops any future payments until you re-sub.
I guess if you were only going to be gone ~1 month pausing would be easier.
yea I was under “gametime and subscriptions” and that is now apparently an option as well as cancelling…So I was just curious…and you can pause up to 6months
and upon further reading you can pause past when your game time expires and then just resuming it when you’re ready…I feel like it’s less hassle and a less permanent solution.
No tangible benefit. I know I’ll never really ‘quit’ WoW so I’ll use the pause feature if I get posted out to a place without good internet for a 3-6 month deployment. I imagine it was made with people like that in mind.
I still dont get it, say my game time expires end of this month. I pause it for 1 month and renew at end of march 31. Does this mean once I restart it, I will still be retroactively charged for one month? Or will i simply not have access to WoW for one month and billing itself restarts at end of march?
Time on the account counts down no matter what. It only affects the cycle of upcoming game time purchases. “Pausing” will stop for one month, then basically re-sub for you without you have to go in and do it. There is no way to “pause” time on the account.
Lets say your family decides to move to Fire Island, just before you pack up your PC, you pause your Warcraft account which has 14 days left until your sub runs out, after a week of traveling and setting up your PC again, you un-pause your Warcraft account, which still has 14 days until sub runs out.
I thought pausing time was the point… hmm…
No. What you’re describing is not possible. Blizzard does not offer that service. If you pause the subscription, then the 14 days counts down, then your account is inactive. It waits 1-6 months (whatever you select), then automatically resubscribes.
Pause pauses your next payment, NOT your game time.
Well, this is new. I had no idea they had created an option to Pause the next sub payment. It does not stop any current game time in the current paid block from continuing to tick down.
Looks like it only pauses ONE payment. Which one depends on your Sub plan (monthly, every 3 months, every 6 months).
Pausing your Next Subscription Payment
You can pause your subscription for a minimum of one month and a maximum of six months.
To pause your next subscription payment:
- Log in to your Games & Subscriptions page
- Click Manage next to the WoW account you want to pause your subscription on
- Click Pause Next Payment
- If this option is not present, it means you do not have an active subscription on this WoW account
The difference is that Pause lets you stop a single billing unit of game time - after which it will automatically resume billing. Cancel means that it will not bill again at all until you set up the Sub again.
Yeah, that is not an option. Once it is billed and granted, you use it or lose it so to speak. What can be paused or stopped is the next payment.
This thread is honestly great. I had no idea they added this.
…no. Nothing on your account is ever deleted. Except expired mail, and deleted characters under a certain level (I don’t know what that threshold is). What you’re saying for cancel is completely wrong.
Incorrect, and I probably should have been a bit more detailed. True, characters will remain on your account (not deleted by Blizzard), but deleting them from your list prior to cancelling your subscription will remove incentive. I believe after 30-90 days the name of a deleted toon is up for grabs. After 30 days all deleted items are no able to be restored. You will not have any gold either. So technically, you would have a collection of naked, and broke toons with a combination of letters & numbers for names.
If you’re talking about deleted characters, after a certain amount of time the name is freed up yes. But only deleted characters under a certain level (I can’t recall the exact level) are purged permanently after a period of time. Over a certain level they are never deleted. Items and gold are never deleted even on deleted characters. If you can restore a deleted character, you get back whatever they had (except possibly the name). If it’s purged due to being too low level, the entire character is just gone.
OK, simplest option then: give everything away (the gold was going that way before) so you can have happy thoughts and get your yourself banned lol.
No, that just creates work for you and for the support team who has to deal with reports. You can just delete your Battlenet account and everything on it. Very simple. Once confirmed, this can not be reversed. Do not click through the approvals unless you really mean you want everything on the Bnet gone for good.
Anybody who likes the idea of “pausing” their account should be aware of the fact that when you unsub, after your gametime runs out, your account and everything you collected will be waiting for you as long as the game is online. There is no need to delete anything unless you really want to, which you may later regret.
Back in vanilla and TBC, you could pause your subscription for a really long time. I once paused my sub for 6 months lol. Glad to see this option has returned, though it stinks you can only pause for one month.
Thanks for clearing that up, I should have known it can’t be possible to pause game time because if it were, people would want to pause it when they log off and un-pause it next time they play.
I once worked and lived at a rural doggie rescue kennel that didn’t have internet available (screw satellite net, it sucks for WoW) and it was a month and a half before I realized I forgot to cancel the WoW sub, but that’s one of the reasons companies love subs so much.
I bought a 24 pack of cat food on Amazon a few weeks ago, I had to click a box saying I only wanted one 24 pack because the default option was a sub, which would send me one every month. What’s next? Toothbrush sub? Big Mac Sub? Subway Sub sub?
so I’ve just paused my account for 3 months and my game time ends on April 5th so I can still play up until then but as of April 6th my subscription is paused and I don’t pay anything until July 5th and it will “un pause” and resume my subscription at that time I can cancel the pause at anytime at which point I will be charged for my plan so I guess it will be a new billing cycle.