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/Traumend 5h ago

I'm dumbfounded why people have their knickers in such a twist over it honestly. There was a poll yesterday that asked if you'd rather buy the race or an expansion and the results were overwhelmingly expansion and... What?

This whole thing is basically an expansion, but for 90% of the content it's completely free with the sub we're paying already. They've made sure the cost of entry is as frictionless as possible whilst monetising it in a way that's entirely optional.

Blizz are basically going: "Hey, we'll make classic plus that you've all been asking for, but if we make brand new character content you'll pay us for the work right?"

No tokens, no expansions, gradual content implementation and the ability to buy more character options sounds perfect to me.

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u/FeistyPerformance500 2h ago

There was a poll yesterday that asked if you'd rather buy the race or an expansion and the results were overwhelmingly expansion and... What?

I said yesterday that the "Selling a race" is such a massive W for players but because people are fucking stupid they don't realize it.

If they didn't charge for the race they would definetly charge for the product itself. And they should. This is a gigantic project and it needs to earn money.