'We really don't like making money off players who are in denial of their addiction. But I strongly suspect that this is not the case. 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 Clicker Heroes 1, we never tried to abuse players with our real-money shop,' the studio said in a statement on the Clicker Heroes website, 'Despite this, we found that some number of players spent many thousands of dollars on rubies. The decision, says Playsaurus, is a matter of ethics. Yet its lavish sequel will ditch all micro-transactions in favour of a single $29.99 upfront cost, fully refundable for up to a year. And like most free-to-play games, Clicker Heroes featured a shop, where you could purchase even greater automation with real money.Ĭlicker Heroes' store made, by Playsaurus' own admission, a lot of money for the developer. Like all clickers, you could either take care of the primary goal yourself, by manually clicking away at enemies, or you could spend all your hard-earned gold to automate the process through new hero acquisition and upgrades so you barely had to interact with the game at all. The original Clicker Heroes - a 2015 mini-phenomenon, and a game which sent Eurogamer contributor Jon Blyth tumbling into a pit of existential despair - set players the task of defeating an endless procession of monsters in an infinitely deep dungeon in order to accrue increasingly preposterous quantities of gold.

Clicker Heroes developer Playsaurus has announced that it's abandoning the free-to-play model for its upcoming sequel Clicker Heroes 2, for 'ethical reasons'.

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