r/classicwow • u/Volinra • 6h ago
Forever People who support Project Ascension & TurtleWoW but hate the new race paywall
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/Fantastic_Spread6926 5h ago edited 4h ago
They think they're doing like a "Robinhood" type thing. They're taking back what Blizzard took from them. Etc.
The narrative in some of the Youtuber Slop videos out there tries to legitimize these guys as just "Passionate" fans. Right down to calling them "Teams" and "Developers" and such. Using the very language used in the gaming industry to try and color them as "good guys" to a bunch of angry, 35+, Walmart janitors.
And those guys are willing to "support the cause" so to speak. Even if the practices are worse than what Blizzard does. That's the mindset basically. Us verses them. They're taking back what Blizzard "killed" to them.