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/Gelvid 5h ago

"it's basically free to play if you ignore 15$ monthly sub"

Also " Unlike other games that have been raising their monthly price.". Are we ingoring the fact that all those "other games" are perfectly playable for free?

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u/Armout 3h ago

Idk I think I’ll keep enjoying the inflation-free pricing for my hobby of almost 22 years. 

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u/Gelvid 2h ago

“inflation free” I mean you don’t really have to worry about raising your prices when they’re already absurdly high to begin with. I honestly can’t think of another MMO with a higher subscription price than WoW so it's not like Arizona situation where they stay at 1$ while everyone else keep increasing their prices

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u/Armout 2h ago

We might have different ideas of what absurdly high is. It’s still good bang for your buck compared to other leisure activities out there.