Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Clicker Heroes Studio Ditching Free-To-Play for 'Ethical Reasons'

Playsaurus, the studio behind Clicker Heroes, is abandoning free-to-play for its next game citing "ethical reasons" over addictive behavior as a core reason.

When forced to choose between a paid upfront model, similar to traditional games, or a free-to-play model, as in Clicker Heroes 1, the studio will adopt the former for upcoming game Clicker Heroes 2. It will cost $29.99 and be fully refundable for a year after launch, according to a post by Fragsworth, one of the game's developers.

The reason for the change is concern that the players who spend the most money supporting the game may be victims of addictive behavior. Despite designing the game largely without the real-money shop in mind, the studio found that "some number of players spent many thousands of dollars on

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