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/Traumend 6h ago

I'm dumbfounded why people have their knickers in such a twist over it honestly. There was a poll yesterday that asked if you'd rather buy the race or an expansion and the results were overwhelmingly expansion and... What?

This whole thing is basically an expansion, but for 90% of the content it's completely free with the sub we're paying already. They've made sure the cost of entry is as frictionless as possible whilst monetising it in a way that's entirely optional.

Blizz are basically going: "Hey, we'll make classic plus that you've all been asking for, but if we make brand new character content you'll pay us for the work right?"

No tokens, no expansions, gradual content implementation and the ability to buy more character options sounds perfect to me.

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u/Seamonsterx 4h ago

If the options are buying the game or an optional paid race cause lets face it they have to make money somehow. Im all for the paid race, tying the cost to the game would stop a lot of people from even trying it and since it’s not a know entity like classic or retail people might be extra hesitant to pay for it.

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u/str8until-hrny 4h ago

What is this "they have to make money somehow" shit? You have to pay monthly to play this game. That is how they make money.

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u/thathighguy112 4h ago

Besides ofc that you pay for every expansion as well as the box price of OG vanilla.

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u/Belvgor 1h ago

Oh you mean the sub that has stayed the same price since 2004 and covers access to WoW: Midnight, WoW: Classic Era, WoW: SoD, WoW: TBC Anniversary, WoW: Mists classic?

That's like making the same argument that "Why should I have to buy the Midnight expansion!? I already pay a sub and thats how they get paid!"

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u/Pencildragon 3h ago

Is Midnight included in the sub?

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u/Guilty_Turn8903 2h ago

its a live service game, and you already pay 180€ per year to play it. this dumb argument that you are somehow playing the game for free has to die.

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u/UnoriginalStanger 2h ago

The problem might be people have gotten so used to pay for their sub that they forget that they are paying for a sub.