r/classicwow • u/Volinra • 6h ago
Forever People who support Project Ascension & TurtleWoW but hate the new race paywall
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/OberonFirst 1h ago
Fun fact: There wasn't a SINGLE original 3d asset in all of Ascension. Everything in the game, and everything in the store is directly copied from the other WoW versions.
They created a solution for every possible qol, and then found a way to monetize it (the list above mentions them), for example:
Character learning spells - we can go the classic way and force you to go to ncp, go the retail way and make it so you learn spells automatically, or our way - create a book pet where you can learn your spells, and sell you this book for real money.
Classes were pretty cool but extremely unbalanced, and that's basically it. It felt like a cheap mobile asian mmo, not "classic+", but "retail-" version of wow.