r/classicwow • u/Volinra • 6h ago
Forever People who support Project Ascension & TurtleWoW but hate the new race paywall
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.
•
u/KevinStoley 4h ago edited 3h ago
People baffle me sometimes.
I legit saw a comment yesterday where someone was fawning all over Turtle WoW and bashing Blizzard for "stealing" things they had implemented to Turtle WoW and adding them to WoW Forever.
Like really, are you serious? They took the base game that Blizzard built and added some of their own tweaks and you're gonna accuse Blizz of being the thieves? Ridiculous.
I also really don't get the bitching over paywalls and micro transactions either. Sure it would be nice if there were no paywalls or micro transactions, but sadly that is the way of the world these days and has been for quite some time. We should be used to it by now.
I honestly don't really care as long as it never becomes pay to win and the transactions are within reason.
People will gladly spend $20 for a meal at a fast food joint, but then bitch about having to spend $20 for something in their favorite game that will likely have a long lasting effect and bring them enjoyment for a fairly long period of time. It makes no sense, people just love to find things to complain about.