"Humble Monthly is Becoming...Humble Choice"

Okay, so I resubscribed last month for Crash and Spyro, and since I'm not really interested by this month (even if it's a high-quality one), I paused-for-a-month. Paused but still subscribed, so all good for the Classic tier of the future Humble Choice, I thought.

But there is now a red banner on the Monthly page that wasn't there a few days ago :

Your subscription is paused. Activate your subscription to unlock the full benefits of Humble Choice.

So they claimed that once the Humble Choice will be released, we'll be able to pause-a-month anytime and still keep the Classic (if we unlocked it by being subscribed at the day of the release). So if you want; you can subscribe now, pause right away without paying anything (and getting no game then, obviously), get access to the Classic tier, and pause each month for years. That's pretty clear.

With this message, it seems that we have to be subscribed AND unpaused at the date of the release to unlock the Classic tier (and be free to pause for the future months). Either that, or it's just a bait to try to unpause the subscribed-but-paused with a fake/incomplete message (and as a stupid fish, I took the bait and bought this month to be extra sure to get the Classic).

I'm too lazy to ask more information to the support, I'm very sorry.
I also wrote the same information there.

So much complaining. I think they doing this cause ppl was so scarred of buying even monthly with 2-3 games shown and rest as 'unknown'. Always could be shi** or pearls.

On HBC this will be better-you wont gamble with 'shi* or pearl', u just taking them all at once or pausing

Prices? It's them right to change the price. No one forcing you to buy. If ur subscriber now u getting same costs for more games.

Youre saying 'its bad for new buyers'? Wtf just think about yourself and about what u get for your price.

The first ever list of Humble Choice games is out in the open here: https://www.humblebundle.com/subscription/meet-choice

• Shadow of the Tomb Raider*
• Blasphemous
• Void Bastards*
• Phantom Doctrine*
• Dead Vinland
• Horizon Chase Turbo
• Dark Future: Blood Red States*
• Desert Child
• Aegis Defenders*
• X-Morph: Defense*

Total Steam retail price:$272 USD, higher than any prior Humble Monthly

*=Games on my wishlist

So I'll be buying this upcoming Humble Choice on the Classic Plan.

It'll be interesting to see how future Humble Choice compare to this first month.

Can somone confirm, that pausing the subscribtion will be possible with the classic plan?

For instance, I subscribe now, and pause for as long as I wish until there's games I want.
With the only drawback being, that I have to remember to pause each month?

It's live now. Doesn't seem good at all. There's only 9 games to choose from total instead of a larger list to choose from. 10 if you have classic. So it seems like there's no point in not just claiming them all.

So this month I got pick all 10 .. and as of the New Year, it will be either 3 or 9?