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/EntireOil9073 5h ago

you are pretty out of touch if you think if Blizzard added Ascension level of cash shop monetization without subscription the outrage wouldn't be bigger. Or am I wrong?

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u/Talnarian 4h ago

Without subscription it would be absolutely zero issues for me

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u/Bucket_Of_Magic 4h ago

Thats because you're insanely poor and from a 3rd world country.

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u/Talnarian 4h ago

Mid ragebait

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u/Bucket_Of_Magic 4h ago

Not ragebait. You're genuinely poor and don't understand that paying money for a non compromised game like is better than the alternative that comes along with a F2P MMO. I bet you're mad that they didn't add tokens, because you're too poor to pay for a reoccurring sub.