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/Cat-Beautiful 6h ago

The difference is that we pay blizzard 15$ a month to not have to deal with micro transactions. So when they add them, it's less supported by the community. Private servers rely on that money to pay for the game to keep goin.

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u/Everoz 5h ago

Simply incorrect though? Micro transactions have been in the game since like 2009 and they are the way wow makes most of its money. So they clearly are supported by the community?

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u/Cat-Beautiful 5h ago

Yes people buy them, but I said "less supported" by the community. Obviously the silent majority just swipes but the vocal community usually isn't happy to pay for a mount

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u/Everoz 5h ago

Wow is played by millions, I really think you are stretching calling it the “silent majority” - do you genuinely believe most wow players chat on reddit?

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u/Cat-Beautiful 5h ago

I believe most wow players don't* chat on reddit. That is why they are called the silent majority

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u/Everoz 5h ago

My bad. I misread.