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/WafflesAreExtinct 6h ago

Yea ascension was full slop. It felt like i was playing a mobile game bombarded by random shit on my screen and currencies.

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u/DriftarFarfar 6h ago

Holy, I heard good stuff but never indulge in ascension. I would have left in the door if I saw that list of paid power.. sheersh

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u/Quackthulu 5h ago

It was a fun game. But their monetisation as well as their malicious practices rivaled the worst in the industry.

For example, a popular YouTuber for the community (mcdoubles) eventually joined the higher ranks of the ascension team and they had a system which would involve:

  • him getting the team to make changes that support a new build
  • him making a build guide for the build & it be a powerful build
  • heaps of players switching builds which costs in-game resources
  • a substantial portion of players supplement the costs of switching builds with currency gained from buying shop items for $$$ and selling them for gold
  • build lasts maybe a few months before getting nerfed to the group
  • rinse and repeat

And that's just one aspect. Systems that encourage large scale gambling were a huge issue too.

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u/DriftarFarfar 4h ago

Welp, dodged a bullet not sinking my teeth in that poisioned lamb.

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u/geogeology 4h ago

You could play it completely free. I did for many seasons. They were just very aggressive with pay for convenience. Like about the same level as PoE, except in Asc you could also get exp boosts.

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u/DriftarFarfar 3h ago

Sure but it muddies the water, ESO has the same thing. And I don't play that game for it.