There appears to be a 18-24 hour delay when auto-renewing my Realm subscription, which prevents access to the Realm while showing an 'Expired' status. This has occurred twice now on the renewal date each month: July 9th and August 9th. I opened tickets with Microsoft who had me go through the usual troubleshooting steps (on/off, uninstall/install, delete/login profile, etc.), all of which did nothing until the issue resolved itself later in the day. And Mojang support suggested I open a bug.

I expect this to occur again on September 9th at midnight. My Credit Card will show the purchase automatically as pending, and the Realm will show Expired across all devices until the charge is no longer in pending status. I plan on waiting it out this time instead of feeding frustration dealing with MS support.

Is this normal or expected behavior? I don't have this issue with any other auto-renew service (Xbox Live for example) anywhere, using this card or any other.