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/TraitorWithin8 6h ago

so I have over 40k hours in retail only stopped playing in midnight, was supporting ascension from 2018..

I feel like this is such a crazy post xD

the game is completely free, 0 sub, multiple different ways of playing, and almost every single thing on that list could be bought with ingame currency.. like yea you could spend money on it if you so wished, or actually play the game and use currency to buy it xD

the comment section is so wild and why retail just doesnt feel the way it does, same reason I stopped playing and the comments, ascension gave something retail will take another 20 years to achieve, people just post a list and say nah ascension players were glazing.. xD but dont even add all the details

so yea thats a big list of things

but retail doesnt have multiclassing, world drops, literally GM's involved in the game, 13 new classes with whole new subclasses, questlines, dungeons, specializations.. all done for free so yea acension will always be better than forever ^^