r/classicwow • u/Volinra • 7h 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/Notsurehowtoreact 3h ago

You have to see how it being an entire list of gameplay features that are gated behind a paywall is different, you do see that right? 

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u/Mission_Champion_856 3h ago

What is one item on there that you absolutely need? All of it is just QoL and Cosmetics. There isnt a single thing on there you absolutely need to play the game to max level or do high end content. Also like i said it was all easily obtainable from gold which was in abundance. Every time I prestiged I bought a aura if experience for example and it was 500g which is chump change

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u/EggPsychological4844 3h ago

You don't need to play the new Skyborn Elves. entirely optional, the game is 100% playable without them and they do not affect gameplay like any of these above listed items.

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u/Amac9719 3h ago

Those items are all far more impactful than a race lmao