[EXPIRED]Get a Humble Choice annual membership for only $89!

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In that case it all depends on if you bought December 2021 BEFORE buying the yearly subscription or WITH the yearly subscription.

And in general it might make it easier to remember when thinking of a calendar year. That also starts with January and ends with December, not with January. A full set of 12 months will never feature the same month twice.

The gift link doesn't expire. Just use it when your current subscription runs out.

? i still don't understand - this pays for 12 months of humble choices - not the regular bundles

Thanks for the info. Good to know.

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You lose it (or rather you'd get 10% instead and would have to work your way up to 20% again) only if you don't buy November which you would do afterwards with the gifted subscription. I have cancelled every single month this year to wait for a coupon. And while I didn't have any store discount during the days the account was in cancelled state, I always got my 20% back after resubscribing later each month.

I just checked: I only ever get one mail per purchase from Humble, no matter if it's Choice, bundles or store purchases. Are you sure you bought it as a gift? What is the subject of the email you received? I bought it as a gift yesterday and I only received one mail as per usual (in german, but judging by your name, that shouldn't be a problem):

Betreff: Vielen Dank für Ihre Humble Choice Gift Bestellung!

VIELEN DANK FÜR DEINEN KAUF
Gute Wahl! Wir denken, dein Empfänger wird sein neues Geschenk von Humble Choice wirklich zu schätzen wissen.
Denn was gibt es Schöneres, als jeden Monat neue Spiele zu entdecken?

GESCHENKINFORMATIONEN
Denk daran, dass du diesen Geschenklink direkt an den Empfänger schicken musst.

https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=xxx

Wenn du den oben genannten Link aufrufst, achte darauf, dass du das Geschenk nicht selbst einlöst – das wird der Empfänger tun!
Die Geschenkmitgliedschaft kann nur von einer Person eingelöst werden.

ZAHLUNGSÜBERBLICK
Humble Choice-Geschenk
One Year, Premium Plan

73,11 €

Steuer
13,89 €

BEZAHLTE GESAMTSUMME
87,00 €

Bei Problemen oder Fragen besuchen Sie bitte unsere Support-Seite: https://support.humblebundle.com.

Danke,
Humble Bundle

If lucky, pausing could give you a better deal than $7.42 per month but like I said: that requires continous effort in pausing / unpausing every month, so it's totally understandable to take that annual offer. I just wanted to clear up the misunderstanding of how keeping / losing that 20% discount works.

But to put some general math to the "I don't want to lose the 20% discount so I buy Choice every month no matter what" thought:

Losing the 20% store discount by actually skipping a month would mean "only" getting 10% instead while being subscribed. So it's just 10% difference. To make it worth buying a month just to keep the 20% discount, even though you're not interested in the games, it would require you to buy enough in the store so that the 10% extra discount at least equals the monthly fee.

With the offer of $89 for 12 months, that would be $7.42 per month. Meaning: for EVERY month that you ONLY buy to keep the 20% store discount, even though you're not interested in the games at all, you would have to buy games for at least $74.42 in the store in that year to make it worth.

Of course, most of the times it's not THAT easy and you might be interested in maybe 1-3 of the games or so and sometimes those games alone might be worth the $7.42. But it gives you a general perspective on if it really makes sense to buy a month just to keep that +10% discount.

While I haven't tried out this exact thing, I am pretty sure, if you buy the month manually AFTER the auto charge date (so between the last tuesday of said month and the first tuesday of the next month), you would still regain the 20% discount.

True. That pause technically only starts with the release of next months lineup. I have however read a couple of times that people got unpaused automatically when doing that. Not sure if true, but in that case pausing after buying that month would basically do absolutely nothing.

It still might, I just don't remember.

Mine wasn't new nor cancelled, worked just fine.

I just got it a few hours ago.

Upon checking here, you can't use it just yet cause you already unlocked November on your last annual 12-Month plan, and you still have 1 month left to unlock before you use this new annual plan.