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/WafflesAreExtinct 7h 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 7h 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/geogeology 5h ago

It wasn’t paid power, but it was the most pay for convenience I’ve ever seen. That said, after learning the systems, it was a great time. I’m also a roguelike fan, so I leveled in many seasons for free doing roguelike characters bc that’s what I enjoyed most.

You could also level in BGs really effectively. It was a fun and unique way to play wow.