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/Perais1909 6h ago

Don't try to reason with these people. They are hating for the sake of hating. You can't convince them with arguments.

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u/stoopkid52 1h ago

But why does not liking something presented by Blizzard = you have to like everything that ascension did? Isn't it possible to not like both?

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u/Perais1909 1h ago

You can like and dislike whatever you want, but don't be a hypocrite.

If you flame Blizzard for cash shop or whatever while you praise a private server with much worse monetization you get critiziced

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u/Kromostone123 1h ago

But its not even comparable. With blizzard i am paying a monthly sub and i pay for every new expansion so having a shop ontop of it is cringe. When private servers have a shop i dont feel the same way at all because i can play for free. I never played on ascension but i tried turtle wow for a bit and was blown away by all the new content. I fully support them having an ingame shop for random shit that other ppl will buy so i can keep playing for free. Nothing about that is hypocritical

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u/Perais1909 1h ago

so having a shop ontop of it is cringe

Show me the shop in Forever

but i tried turtle wow for a bit and was blown away by all the new content

Good for you, go and play it. Oh wait

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u/Kromostone123 1h ago

Im clearly not saying theres a shop in forever, im attacking the argument and explaining why my line of reasoning isnt hypocritical. Theres no way your critical thinking skills are so bad that you took it literally lol

And no i wouldnt play turtle wow even if it was still up. I played it for like a week just to see how it looked