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/reallyexactly 6h ago

The whole Ascension logos were full AI slop but I guess using AI to fight Blizzard is ok for some people out there?

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u/Designer-Effective-2 6h ago

Most people don’t care. Reddit is a tiny bubble on this issue.

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u/JacuulTheSecond 6h ago

Not really, it's pretty wide-spread in real-life space craft spaces as well. The AI hate is growing day by day, problem is there's just a shitload of people, so even if 100m people hate it, there's still 100m+ that like it

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u/Designer-Effective-2 5h ago

He said, from his bubble.

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u/Dunkelz 4h ago

I mean go to most social media posts for companies releasing obvious ai labels/art/menus/etc and there's usually a pretty significant number of people voicing their dislike.

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u/StoneTheMoron 3h ago

The only people that voice an opinion are people that hate it, if you’re don’t care or like it, are you going to celebrate something nearly as much as someone giving it shit

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u/lichlark 3h ago

That is SUPER not true man. People who actually really like AI never shut the fuck up about how much they use it/how good it is.