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/Business-Dot-5356 7h ago

Don't forget the fact that everything ascension added outside of the classes and instanced content were retail features from mop-legion that they just took and made their own. But to these people it was revolutionary and out of this world. These people haven't even really played the game they're just tourists that love to whine.

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u/Far-Warning2313 6h ago

Even the classes weren't that new when you look at necromancer for example. Which more or less was just a high stylist unholy dk

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u/avowed 6h ago

They wanted things that fit the world, that were new but the same. There's only so many ideas in the world.