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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".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.
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. And like most free-to-play games, Clicker Heroes featured a shop, where you could purchase even greater automation with real money.
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