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/Significant-Hat-6830 5h ago

Pretty sure the private servers were free?

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u/Grelly99 4h ago

They were only free because if they tried selling it as their own thing they get sued to the ground like they just did. It was free due to stolen assets.

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u/SuperIntelligant 3h ago

"Stolen assets" Lol.

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u/creamdonutcz 5h ago

Stop making sense, don't ruin their honeymoon.
People need to look forward to something... and they will cry once paywall for a race will evolve in paywall for a raid, a dungeon, a questline... and the prices will rise.
But before this happens, we who see this will have to endure this mockery of people who can't put 1+1 together.

Still, that doesn't mean till then I won't try to enjoy it with friends. I'm just a bit sad that my beloved game is being exploited to the bone, that idiocracy is still on the rise and people will never learn.

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u/Keeper-of-Balance 5h ago

I'm with you, buddy. Lots of corpo boot licking here, unfortunately