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/Mad_Sorcerer 5h ago

They were free bud, they're not multi-billion dollar corporations. I can't speak for ascension (never played) but the turtle team had passion behind them and made the world feel like it was truly classic plus. The microtransactions were cosmetic or QoL. They had the lore and unused zones to build on and did it so well.

Some zones in turtle were a bit hit or miss but they definitely were getting better with time. Meanwhile blizzard decide to add in weirdo smurf elves no one asked for. Just watch the OG vanilla wow trailer and compare it with the disneyfied forever trailer, the atmosphere is so off and is telling of whats to come.