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1. #WILL CLICKER HEROES 2 BE ON MOBILE MOD#
2. #WILL CLICKER HEROES 2 BE ON MOBILE MODS#
3. #WILL CLICKER HEROES 2 BE ON MOBILE FREE#

To facilitate modding, we would be giving lots of easy access to the source code, and very easy save editing.įinal reason: Pre-orders don't make sense if a game is free-to-play.

#WILL CLICKER HEROES 2 BE ON MOBILE MOD#

Real-money shops make little sense with mods, when you can just download a mod to quadruple the number of rubies you get.

#WILL CLICKER HEROES 2 BE ON MOBILE MODS#

So when you start fresh on one of these updates, you can play a different character, which will be a much different experience.Īlso, we like games with mods and we want mods. To help make things more interesting, Clicker Heroes 2 is designed with multiple characters for you to choose from. Players then have the option to continue playing on the old version, or start fresh on the new version.

New updates can change the game to be incompatible with old saves (which will be rare, maybe once or twice a year), and there will be plenty of advance warning when it happens. With Clicker Heroes 2, we plan to work on at least a few major updates without too much regard to player progress, similar to the way Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, Factorio, and other games do. As a result, Clicker Heroes 1 is kind of a frankenstein of a game, our hands always having been tied by the fact that we couldn't easily change things that people paid for. We've experienced this many times in the past. If we make changes to the game that are better for the game but *feel* worse for any one particular player at any stage of the game, we get backlash from that player. People paid real money to get the current state of their game where it is at, and they've developed an expectation that it would be good for a long time. That alone feels terrible.Īlso, if we have a real-money shop, we are limited to only rebalancing the game in ways that people who just spent money would approve of. The mere existence of real-money purchases puts an ugly cloud over the player's experience, with the persistent nagging feeling of "My game could be so much better if I just spent a few dollars". It probably isn't worth nearly as much money, but at least we can do it with a cleaner conscience. But going forward we're going to at least try the paid-up-front model for our business. Our unlimited refund policy still stands. Most people are OK with how we've handled it. That said, we're not going to change how we monetize Clicker Heroes 1. Despite very few of our players having complained, it felt wrong when we started doing it and it still feels wrong now. 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. It costs us nothing but payment processing fees.

It's not like we have artists drawing each ruby by hand. Unfortunately, those who have a problem are usually in denial about it, and would be too ashamed to ask us for a refund. 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. They are known to the industry as "Whales". We made a lot of money from these players who spent thousands. 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. Despite this, we found that some number of players spent many thousands of dollars on rubies. In Clicker Heroes 1, we never tried to abuse players with our real-money shop, and for the most part we designed it without the shop in mind so that you never have to purchase rubies to progress. That alone is not a bad thing, until it gets abused. There are several reasons why we are making this decision.

#WILL CLICKER HEROES 2 BE ON MOBILE FREE#

We chose paid upfront, for $29.99 (fully refundable for a year after launch), and we are in a situation where we have to explain ourselves to a massive number of players who were expecting/hoping for a free sequel. We had to choose one of two models: Paid upfront like traditional games, or free-to-play with a real-money shop like Clicker Heroes 1. Why Clicker Heroes 2 is abandoning free-to-play