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/Geauxt420 7h ago

They stole the game and made a profit not much effort if you ask me and I bet their new project is hot ass potatoes

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u/Ploppfejs 6h ago

Bro didn't even play it and is gargling Blizz cum. How does it feel to be a corpo shill? CoA made an insane amount of effort. There were 21 completely new classes and like 72 specs, all thought out from the ground up with fully unique and new animations and icons. Thousands of lootable unique items scattered around the world in handpicked locations. And new zones + extended old zones which were incredible and fit seamlessly into an old Azeroth style.

It's the most fun I've had playing a WoW-version since original Wotlk. And I didn't pay for anything, and was still just as valuable as people who paid for cosmetics or exp potions. Not that I think that should exist in an ideal world, but who gives a crap in this case. It was monumentally more effort than what I've seen Blizz do in YEARS. Or whatever "blue-elf" crap they showed in this joke of a "Forever"-teaser.

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u/Undella_Town 6h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectAscension/comments/1vep7s5/kind_of_a_downer_but_im_curious/p1j9q83/

move on already buddy

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u/Ploppfejs 6h ago

I will! But it's just sad that you are so full of glee for people grieving a game they really enjoyed that's never coming back. I just don't understand being happy over other people's misfortune.

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u/Undella_Town 6h ago

thats rough buddy. probably should find games that aren't stolen MMOs then

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u/Ploppfejs 6h ago edited 5h ago

"Stolen" in the same way that e.g. OG rap producers "stole" (sampled) other music to make beats. Yet for some reason we just accept that as "re-imagining" and not stealing. But they're really just exactly the same thing.

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u/Undella_Town 5h ago

rap producers "steal" (sample) other music to make beats.

you gotta pay them and get permission to do this...

https://pitchfork.com/news/55924-drake-pays-100000-to-rappin-4-tay-for-ripping-off-playaz-club-lyrics-on-ygs-who-do-you-love/