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> A hilarious-looking clicker game... but a clicker game. Would anybody spend $30 on a clicker game? Well that's the thing, isn't it: A lot of people spent a
by Lazare 9y ago
> A hilarious-looking clicker game... but a clicker game. Would anybody spend $30 on a clicker game?
Well that's the thing, isn't it: A lot of people spent a lot more than $30 on Clicker Heroes 1. So yes, obviously people will spend $30 on a clicker game. The question is whether they'll do so via an ethical business model.
- bduerst 9y agoAren't clicker games notorious for hidden difficulty curves, which are sometimes exponential? The whole p2w model is based off of getting players invested with their time before making it too difficult to progress without investing cash. I'd bet the people who spend $30+ on the p2w version won't be willing to pay $30 up front to start investing time into a brand new game.
- dragontamer 9y agoIt should be noted that ClickerHeroes didn't have p2w for months, maybe years. I did quit after the addition of Rubies. But the game was legitimately good at balancing the heroes. A good amount of my effort in Clicker Heroes was spent on optimizing builds through linear algebra and other optimization problems.
- joesb 9y agoThe problem is, without the free-to-play model, they now lose the essential parts of any products, marketing. Anyone who download the free game and talk about it or recommended it to a friend is free marketing. With enough friends talking about the game or play it without paying, one person in that group will spend $30. But without the groups existing in the first place, that same person may not interested in the game enough to buy it.