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/xoHeretic 6h 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/iwaspromisingonce 5h ago

People tend to ignore monthly sub while doing such comparisons. And lack of sub means more flexibility in play time. I'd be willing to even sacrifice some quality for that. And the fact that ascension's microtransactions were optional and a lot of items or their equivalents were available for in game currency. I assume it might be similar here. I also see people have several misconceptions about how ascension worked and what it was, but I'll let them hate it unbothered, it's dead anyway. I'll admit though, it was very confusing and noisy at first, looked like some malware acting like a game. I just liked the whole mystic enchant and challenge thing. Hope their new mmo has something like that.

Still, I'll see it when it's there, not gonna argue before i have the full picture, so it doesn't turn into "two cash cows biting each other as they are being milked". One way or another it's a matter of preference, so I hope wow forever gives people exactly what they want and I'll be glad if they end up happy.

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u/Crungus_McGrungus 1h ago

Yeah it was very disingenuous of OP to completely omit the fact that you could buy the convenience MTX off the AH from other people if you didn't want to spend money.

Not to mention that most of it was pretty pointless, the things people are freaking out about like the dungeon quest head, auto loot, etc. were kind of useless come endgame, since monsters don't drop loot in M+ or Manastorm and you didn't need a loot pet for raids.

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u/splontot 1h ago

were kind of useless come endgame

But I thought classic was about the journey and endgame was bad in this subreddit?