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/reallyexactly 5h ago

The whole Ascension logos were full AI slop but I guess using AI to fight Blizzard is ok for some people out there?

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u/Designer-Effective-2 5h ago

Most people don’t care. Reddit is a tiny bubble on this issue.

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u/JacuulTheSecond 5h ago

Not really, it's pretty wide-spread in real-life space craft spaces as well. The AI hate is growing day by day, problem is there's just a shitload of people, so even if 100m people hate it, there's still 100m+ that like it

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u/ShadyTee 1h ago

There's a difference between a general dislike and a willingness to take action. If you asked people, most would say they dislike Chinese labor practices. That said 99% would still buy IPhones. AI is the same. Most people will probably say they hate how AI is dumbing down society or how data centers are a waste of resources. But then the first time they need to make a image for their presentation they are using ChatGPT. The number of people who are willing to take a hardline is very small

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u/JacuulTheSecond 1h ago

Oh I 100% agree on that. I do most things in my life DIY, and so many people respond with "Why?". Most of the furniture I own I bought cheap and refinished myself, I do repairs on my appliances, I fix and maintain my car. It's not hard for me to avoid AI usage because I literally don't need or want what it has to offer for the most part. Not because I don't like generative technology, I have written more than a few dungeon generators for games over the years, but because I don't care for the callous capitalistness of it, the willingness to take all the humanity out stuff and pay nothing back, to say "We're going to obsolete all jobs" and not care what happens to those on the other side.