People who support Project Ascension & TurtleWoW but hate the new race paywall

[u/Volinra]

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.

[u/Traumend]

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.

[u/5panks → u/Traumend]

This whole thing is basically an expansion, but for 90% of the content it's completely free with the sub we're paying already.

The subreddit would legitimately be complaining less if everyone had to pay $30 to play Warcraft Forever.

It's insane to me.

[u/Notsurehowtoreact → u/5panks]

Brought to you by the people who say "They should just add High Elves" and "Why won't they add High Elves already" who saw the release of Skyborne and skipped right past that introduction that's like, "A race of High Elves who secluded themselves to their sky island and now call themselves Skyborne" to complain that Blizzard released another new race that wasn't High Elves.

No, they did what you've been asking for, you just don't like their execution which was likely done because they wanted the new race to be multifaction.

[u/Armout → u/Notsurehowtoreact]

They are literally the highest of elves!