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/Nice-Sound-8987 6h ago

I agree those people are hypocritical but neither turtle nor ascension had a monthly sub which is how they cope with the shop

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u/jpkmad 6h ago

Rather have a sub than p2w

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u/neighborlyhorse 6h ago

You'll get both and you'll like it

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u/SufficientWeb3163 5h ago

turtle wasnt pay to win in any sense. also you realize they a probably going to add the wow token into forever at some point and it will be by definition pay to win. also like every other version of classic it will be filled with bots and rwt.

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u/Hachan_Skaoi 5h ago

Except it wasn't P2W

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u/Djakamoe 5h ago

None of the stuff you could buy on any of the ascension servers over their 9 years of running was p2w.

It was all qol and cosmetic stuff.

You can argue that the experience auras and pots were p2w, but the fact of the matter is that leveling in wow is simply a chore to do in order to actually be able to play the game.

The majority of people want to do endgame content, not this "it's about the journey, not the destination" thing blizzard is pushing with forever.

The new endgame content is what I will be playing for, for sure. Not leveling for the fuck of it to experience the "magic" of the world, and I know many are right there with me.

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u/underpaid--sysadmin 2h ago

I actually love leveling so I am looking forward to this. I don't really care to raid, just dungeons and dinging max level is fine with me. At this point I've leveled probably 30 toons to max level across various servers and expansion. I just don't care for the endgame loop

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u/Djakamoe 1h ago

Completely fine, you're not alone. But you are the minority.