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Hero SiegeNewsFree classes and monetization plans
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Free classes and monetization plans

Hero Siege · published 25 Nov 2025, 07:48 UTC

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Greetings,We have been looking more into the monetization of the game and have decided to slowly move away from the excessive pay to play content. We have been working on the game for over a decade and never had a plan for monetization so DLC cumulated over the years and now it looks like a DLC simulator, which is not a good look nor is it what we want for our players. So for Season 9, we will be making these classes a FREE part of the game


Amazon, Paladin, Samurai, Shaman, Demonspawn and Demon SlayerPeople who have previously bought these will get special skins which will replace the old class DLC's, since we cannot just remove them and people have paid for them. These skins will activate from owning the old class dlcs automatically.We are also planning to slowly open more classes, but since our monetization model is all over the place, doing too much at once is way too risky from a financial point of view and we want to make sure this does not impact the business in a negative way, peoples jobs are on the line after all. Our plans are to move more towards visual, optional and fair priced MTX and Pay for Convenience rather than locking playable parts out of the game. This only excludes new character classes and the upcoming Act 9 expansion which will be paid, but as we release a new class or expansion we will make one or two older classes free.- PAS

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