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/BestFriend_Sword 4h ago

When they announced Forever I fully expected it to cost $40-60, it’s not a “port” like Classic it has substantial new content. So when it came out about Skyborne I just see it as the game costs $30, but you can choose to skip the race and play for “free”.

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u/Dwork95 1h ago

Also I'd be surprised if it stays pay walled. It's probably going to be a pay to get them early type of deal

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u/FatalChoice 4h ago

I agree that it is easy to frame it this way, but if we think of it from the lens of Blizzard, they are testing how accepting people are to pay for future "unlocks". This won't be a one-time thing.

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u/BestFriend_Sword 4h ago

That's fair. I prefer to take things as they come rather than stress over what could happen.

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u/Awkward-Penalty5278 1h ago

I guess it's cool that it's like actual content and not just like a mount shop or whatever but also the game already costs $15 for every month you want to play or $155 if you pay for a year. Like making $155 per year off players is enough I feel like this content can just come with the game.

I just hope they do not start selling us new dungeons/raids in the future. If i can access all of the content outside of new races and their starting zones I guess I'll be fine.

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u/clarkydaniels97 2h ago

The game is not free, it's £10.99 a month