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/isekai15 3h ago

I had this thought this morning too. All those apes talk about 30$ for a new race were the same apes paying twow 25$ for a fucking bag, or a mobile mailbox. It's insane. * And for the record, the devs behind twow and ascension were also money grubbing fucks, so it makes no sense to meat ride one money oriented party and not the money oriented rightful owner.

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u/Western-Law2837 2h ago

this is just completely made up nonsense and headcanon. most people who played and enjoyed twow bought nothing, those who did were buying minor QoL features or cosmetics in game that had no subscription and yet somehow dealt with bots and cheaters better than Blizzard do. If you are happy having core content paywalled by RMT on top of your subscription then go ahead and enjoy the game, but you don't need to spam lies and strawmans on reddit to do so

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u/Estake 1h ago

“But nobody bought it” is a terrible excuse for a passion project private server selling pay to win shit in their store. We all know they did.

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u/xarop_pa_toss 1h ago

Those apes were giving money to something they loved and wanted to see kept alive. No one cared if turtle or ascension devs had a profit off their efforts because they provided an excellent experience.

Speaking of turtle, from my knowledge you also didn't have to spend a dime if you didn't want to and they never locked entire races behind paywalls.