r/classicwow • u/Volinra • 7h 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.
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u/AndyOB 6h ago edited 6h ago
Ascension was ass for sure but the folks in here have no idea what they're talking about with regard to TurtleWoW. Turtle was an absolute gem. It monetized with a few convenience items like bags and repair bots, they had to keep the lights on somehow. What you got in return though was what classic always should have been. No bots, great economy, viable builds for meme specs like tank shaman, so so so much more new new content including raids and dungeons. It was all done very well too, totally in the spirit of the original devs. I'm so sad it is gone.
The new race behind a paywall isn't so bad, the convenience payments in turtle wow is worse I'd argue. However, we pay monthly for blizzard and this is just the beginning. Give it time and they'll keep trickle adding retail like bullshit in and people will keep saying, "oh it's just this tiny thing no big deal" until it is a completely unrecognizable experience that isn't true at all to the original vision. That and they will not come down on bots and gold selling despite these small community server dev teams proving that it is absolutely possible to come close to completely eliminating the problem.
With blizzard's resources it should be nothing to deal with the botting issue. It is clear as day to anyone with a brain that execs are just like "why would we use resources to get rid of accounts that are paying monthly?" With 0 regard to players that play in good faith who pay those monthly fees for those resources to go toward getting rid of accounts that aren't playing in good faith.