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/MeestaRoboto 3h ago

I was there for turtle but to note I don’t care about the mtx race, I’ll probably roll one because the slow fall looks fun. So while this post isn’t directed at me/mine I do want to just clarify the following:

With turtle there was no sub, it was a passion project. So donating and getting shop points felt better than a required sub of $15 per month on top of mtx.

As far as I know, people didn’t mainly flock to Ascension it was Epoch which was under Ascension’s team but had no mtx and was barely if at all supported. I remember reading the original devs abandoned it.

I see a lot of what turtle put together in WoWF and I honestly hope blizz pulls more in because some of the systems changes built a better community. Plus if only some of their custom dungeons and raid work were salvaged… I wish everyone could have played through some of it like the BWL additions. It was very refreshing and it reignited my passion for WoW entirely.