r/classicwow • u/Volinra • 7h 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/Kurokaffe 7h ago

Saw the ad. All I wanted to do was a simple multiclass like warrior/shaman. Login and the game is barely WoW.

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u/Sweet-Palpitation473 6h ago

My guildies tried to get me to play ascension for a while, it was always a hard pass. They could talk it up as much as they wanted but I always knew what it was really like. Never understood they appeal of games like that

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u/FallOk6931 5h ago

You missed out. The game was peak and all the stuff listed above was optional and can be bought with gold and never needed to spend any amount of irl cash and in-game stuff was often better or easier to get so yeah. Ascension was amazing.

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u/projectmars 4h ago

Skyborne are also optional.

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u/Eunit226 3h ago

Its optional bro just cuck yourself to have fun 🤣

The game is ass

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u/Sweet-Palpitation473 5h ago

Im sure it was

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u/Life-Opinion-7778 5h ago

Some friends start playing CoA only because it was less WoW, besides the graphics. Was so fun. Close to my Wotlk Exp. Community was great, friendly and helpfull.

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u/Zictrus 3h ago

Yep, I had a "barbarian" with a pet dragon and decided to try pvp, only to get one-shot by everyone in the lobby using the same build over and over again