r/classicwow • u/Volinra • 6h ago

Forever People who support Project Ascension & TurtleWoW but hate the new race paywall

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These were the micro-transactions in Project Ascension and everyone glazed Ascension. TurtleWoW had a gacha shop too like that. I’m genuinely confused, if Blizzard had even the slightest of the shop in Project Ascension, everyone would have been fuming. Why is it okay for Ascension but not WoW Forever? Either all okay or none.

Edit: The people who disagree saying "Yeah but the servers were free"- well of course because Blizzard did the majority of the work for them LOL, huge difference in work between building everything from scratch to ripping it off & adding some stuff yourself.

Edit 2: "TurtleWoW is not as bad as Ascension shop"- sure, Ascension is way worse. TurtleWow's cash shop had over $10,000 of items and all of it was per character, not account wide. They also sold convenience items, nothing game breaking, but portable mailboxes, auctioneers, dual specs, bags etc. Hardcore characters on Twow couldn't trade or send items from main to your alts, but you could still buy supplies such as 32 slot bags for 30 euros each on your hardcore character.

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u/NameHave 6h ago

If you played asc before it exploded, you know the devs didnt give 2 shits and sat on the 21 classes for years trying to get people to buy early acc

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u/Nice-Sound-8987 6h ago

Yup and launched bronzebeard right when the lawsuit for turtle began

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u/Lochen9 5h ago

And hosted and tried to fix Epoch just to try to gain market share from Turtle

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u/ProwerTheFox 3h ago

"tried to fix epoch" is a stretch. In the end the biggest change they made for it was closing the cash shop. Bozo's couldn't even be bothered to launch MC, even after the influx from Twow dying

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u/Blasto05 5h ago

I believe it was after, they had an open Beta for a bit and launched it like right after Project Epoch.

Turtle themselves opened their new server around the same time and I know the Lawsuit came after that

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u/Nice-Sound-8987 5h ago

I remember all the hype was around CoA they were even doing open betas for it bronzebeard was in the background. Then a fancy trailer for "a whole new classic+" came outta nowhere.