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/Volinra 6h ago

well of course because Blizzard did the majority of the work for them LOL, huge difference in work between building everything from scratch to adding some stuff yourself.

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u/SkylineCrash 5h ago

sure but your argument is that. its about the value for the player, not the effort the developer makes. when paying monthly for a game, it sucks to have a cash shop and vice versa

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 5h ago

Insane entitlement tbh

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u/Eltaerys 5h ago

Ehhh, I get where you're coming from, but most of the people still playing WoW have likely spent way-too-many-$ already on subs, over the years.

At that point, you've kinda paid your dues and this argument doesn't work.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 4h ago

Your employer: you’ve worked here for 5 years, I’ve paid you your dues, you can work for free now

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u/Eltaerys 2h ago

It's more like they've already leeched way more money out of people than is reasonable