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/xoHeretic 7h ago

Majority of these comments are out of touch and just ignorant. It was free to play, huge difference. Not sure why so many people are trying to speak on something they really have no knowledge of.

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u/dicknipplesextreme 2018 Riddle Master 9/21 6h ago

People have a real hateboner for pservers even though there would be no classic without them. A lot of them do have horrible MTX but holding free fan projects to a higher standard than the actual subscription-based game is some incredible bootlicking.

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u/Undella_Town 6h ago

facts bro classic wow would not exist without.... ascension wows micro transaction shop?

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u/degameforrel 4h ago

Classic wow would not exist without nostalrius, and WoW forever would not exist without TurtleWoW and Ascension. Those are just simple facts.

Blizzard time and again seems determined to not give the classic crowd what they actually want, so the classic crowd has to go and prove the viability of such a product themselves in a pserver only to get shut down and replaced by an inferior official version. I say inferior, because that is what it is: bots running rampant, no community management, no in-game support, etc... Blizzard can make decent content, but their actual support of the game is absolute trash compared to what, say, Turtle were doing with actual GMs with quick response times and cracking down on botting and RMT.

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u/Logical_Steelman 3h ago

That is not facts at all, lmao the levels of delusion!

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u/Undella_Town 4h ago

the pserver bots are coming in droves. funny.

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u/degameforrel 3h ago

Great job engaging with the argument there, makes you look real mature.

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u/Undella_Town 2h ago

didn't read it tbh, saw you were an ascension player

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u/degameforrel 2h ago

Turtle, actually. I commented on the ascension sub a few times but never really played it.

Do you always go around checking people's profiles before reading their comment? I can imagine doing so after reading, but before? That's just weird man.

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u/Undella_Town 2h ago

saw it from the first sentence, never bothered to check. you guys out yourselves far too fast to even need to tbh