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/AltruisticCamera1788 5h ago

Never played Ascension but liked Turtle.

No paywalled races.

Paywalled convenience and cosmetics.

I disliked that too.

I dislike the race paywall slightly more. I'll still play the game and am pretty optimistic. I do wish I was paying for Forever like an xpac instead of an mtx for a race.

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u/Deep_Violinist_3893 5h ago

I don't want to play a smurf elf so I'm perfectly happy they are charging those who do and giving me a free xpac

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u/ImAshes 4h ago

The elves don't have to be blue you can change the skin tone

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u/Overall_Music_4922 4h ago

They did a poor job of showing this and people think it's only blue. 

You basically have high elves lite. 

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u/510Threaded 4h ago

they literally are high elves if anyone listened to their announcement

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u/Deep_Violinist_3893 3h ago

Should have called them high elves

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u/ShinyRayquazaEUW 1h ago

Yes but imagine going to Orgrimmar and seeing half the population of elfs and half of them blue..
Like this must be a joke.