However, Clicker Heroes 2 will be paid-up-front right from the start.įrom a game designing perspective, eliminating the shop and rubies currency always for more freedom in any future update. It’s not easy changing and rebalancing a game only some people paid for. Despite very few of our players having complained, it felt wrong when we started doing it and it still feels wrong now.”įor now, Clicker Heroes will remain unchanged, but Playsaurus still employ an unlimited refund policy. People can make their own decisions, right? But it just doesn’t sit well with me. Everyone in the industry seems to rationalize it by shifting the blame, assuming way too much cognizance on the part of their victims. And that’s what a large part of free-to-play gaming is all about. “We really don’t like making money off players who are in denial of their addiction. But we don’t want this kind of money if it came from anyone who regrets their decision, if it made their lives significantly worse as a result.” But I strongly suspect that this is not the case,” the dev wrote.Īlthough the developer made a lot of money from those “whales”, they also felt uncomfortable taking advantage of people who might exhibit signs of gambling addiction. “I can only hope that these people could afford it, and that they were doing it to support us, and not to feed an addiction. In a recent blog post, the developer counts 2 main reasons for this shift – ethical reasons and game design reasons.Īccording to Playsaurus, some players ended up spending “many thousands of dollars” in the in-game store, despite the game not being designed to encourage microtransactions. For Clicker Heroes 2, developer Playsaurus decided to ditch the free-to-play model in favor of a $30 price tag. Clicker Heroes, one of the most well-known idle RPGs, is a free-to-play game with optional microtransactions.
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