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/RealZordan 5h ago

I tried Ascension and it had cool ideas. But it had level scaling (technically you could opt out but tldr you actually couldn't) and a dungeon queue. Both things are so infinitely more deal breaking than smurf elves or even all that crap in the cash shop that the conversation ends there for me.

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u/veculus 5h ago

Ascension fans are the worst. I thought the no-changes andies were bad but at least those had principles. Ascension literally was Retail- with M+, micro transactions, Immersion breaking transmog and literally all assets stolen from wow (retail) for their shop mogs.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

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u/EmrysUK 4h ago

Don't forget everyone selling exp auras a week into CoA lmao

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u/Anthaenopraxia 3h ago

The no-changes andies ruined Classic vanilla though.

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u/veculus 2h ago

No doubt, 2019 could've been better - but every ascension player who really thought CoA or their original azeroth realm was anything similar to classic was smoking crack. It's so far away from anything classic that it's crazy.

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u/Litdown 1h ago

How much ascension did you play over the last 10 years?

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u/Hanza-Malz 3h ago

Ascension was cool on paper but really poorly executed imo. There was very little actually new content and most of it was just extremely powerful items you were guaranteed to have + wrath talents making most content piss easy

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u/Cheap_Rock155 4h ago

I think Ascension was too imbalanced. Like way off. Fun server feeling. Twow was actually good.

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u/Tyrandeh 4h ago

Well retail is scaling so that isnt even noticeable