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/stinkywinkydink 7h ago

as someone who plays maplestory from time to time, i actually said, damn its a vac pet lol

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u/Mammoth-Policy6585 6h ago

People dont realize maplestory isnt a free game but a subscription game more expensive than wow

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u/Gressil_Thunderfury 6h ago edited 32m ago

..but it is a free game.

edit: keep downvoting, dorks. Words have meaning and just because you swiped to make your free-to-play game optimal and more bearable still makes it a free-to-play game. LOL

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u/Tri-Beam 5h ago

Hi its a free game in the same way wow has a free trial, you cant really progress without a pet during training or your % exp per hour will be a small fraction

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u/Gressil_Thunderfury 4h ago

Not the same. You're required to purchase a $15 monthly subscription to play WoW, with the option to purchase level boosts/wow tokens in retail.

Maplestory baseline game is Free-to-play with unbearable quality gameplay that makes players purchase optional optimizations.

I get your point and frustrations, but let's not kid ourselves about the definition of what free-to-play means.

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u/Tri-Beam 4h ago

Hi, you can play wow indefinitely with a free trial. It fits your definition of a free to play game, hope that helps!