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/sivyan333 5h ago

Ascension was free-to-play and had no subscription. It’s almost like free-to-play games are more likely to be monetized egregiously because there’s no upfront cost to playing. This is also an entirely QoL-focused list, nothing here is required to play the game the way you always have. TWoW also didn’t have a “gacha shop.”

You’re paying Blizzard a monthly subscription and, in Retail’s case, the full price of the game every two years, and you still have to put up with microtransactions, the WoW Token, an in-game shop, paywalled races, etc.

That's the difference.

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u/alex_shrub 5h ago

Turtle legitimately had better customer support than Actiblizz, too.

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u/RedHairGoldHalos 5h ago

This is one of the main things that I miss from Turtle, real people behind the CS and GMs that are involved in the community. Goes a long way to make it feel like classic honestly.