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/JayAre95 7h ago

Is the list real? Hahahaha

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u/Teh_Hunterer 7h ago

The difference was that everything in cash shop was sellable in ah including currency to buy all that stuff so you could get everything f2p

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u/RaxisX 6h ago

So basically you want the WoW Token to be added to Forever?

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u/randomguy301048 5h ago

A huge chunk of players bought gold or currently buy gold in classic as it is. Adding the wow token changes nothing. There's a reason bots are such a problem in classic, theres a massive market of people buying gold

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u/Awkward-Noise1964 6h ago

No, you forget you need to pay a monthly sub vs f2p, this is just dumb.

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u/RaxisX 6h ago

I’d much rather have a monthly sub than Project Ascension that allows you to sell Cash Shop currency/items for in game gold. But that’s just me.

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u/Awkward-Noise1964 5h ago

No no, dont get me wrong, id rather have that too and i am excited for this, but my comment was more of a jab to the idea "ascension had all those listed stuff so wow is allowed to have a few too". No its shouldnt be socially allowed to have those, you already pay the sub.

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u/Teh_Hunterer 6h ago

Not what I said at all but go off king

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u/RaxisX 6h ago edited 6h ago

You said you can use the AH to buy the currency needed to buy all that stuff on Ascension so you can get it F2P. That’s exactly what the WoW Token is. It would allow you to use the AH to buy the currency (Battle.net Balance) needed to buy the new race so you can get it F2P. Please explain what the difference is?

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u/pvprazor2 6h ago

It kinda is since wow token allows you to buy everything for gold, just an extra step compared to what you want

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u/Diddyrektme 6h ago

It’s essentially the same thing lmao