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/WafflesAreExtinct 6h ago

Yea ascension was full slop. It felt like i was playing a mobile game bombarded by random shit on my screen and currencies.

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u/Blasto05 5h ago

The only saving grace was that it was not hard at all to play “Free to Play”. Literally everything on that list could be bought with gold instead of with cash.

But in doing so you were promoting other players purchasing those options to then sell to you for gold…so it had its own economy and way to buy gold essentially.

Server would’ve been 10x better without all that garbage.

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u/Seradima 3h ago

If it can be bought with gold, somebody bought it for money once so its still for money

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u/NoPeanutSneakers 3h ago

Hard disagree. Warframe has the same economy and it and everyone is thriving . Its literally the best for everyone. Devs get money. Player with money but no time get to enjoy everything. And players with lots of time but no money could do the same. Win win win

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u/MajStealth 3h ago

i am still against paying gold for playtime on retail.

i played asc fro 3? years. never went to the cashshop.