Masoud House of DualShockers.com writes:
"Ever since Destiny was announced, I’ve been curious about what Bungie had in store for us gamers. As a PS3 owner who has only ever played the Halo series for brief moments, I had no idea what to expect. Then I heard about how Destiny was being made to be a shared-world experience, where players can drop in and out of missions seamlessly in a large sandbox environment and tackle the narrative alone or with allies. Top it all off with gorgeous graphics, a new unique world and tons of freedom, and Destiny was already making as many waves as Halo has done before. Finally at E3 2013, I was given the chance to see a hands-off demo of what the game has to offer, but unfortunately, Bungie didn’t show us anything we haven’t seen before.
By that, I mean exactly what I said: that’s not a snide remark on the likeness of FPSs to one another or a bland world with a lack of character, but just the truth. We were shown an almost identical presentation with an almost identical script to the one seen by everyone during the E3 2013 PlayStation conference."
Destiny has made over $160 million in MTX revenue, and these numbers only account the data from late 2017 to early 2019.
That's extremely low for microtransactions, especially for a game that's essentially designed around it
This was back when the game wasn't free to play.
The figures are from November 2017 to February 2019 (1 year and 4 months).
Based on that projection, the MTX revenue for Destiny 2 likely would have been closer to ~$240m for 2 years.
Not sure if premium expansions are included in that figure either although ... I'd hope that they are though and that most of the revenue was for actual content like Forsaken.
People spend way too much money on cosmetics.
Seasons($10 and just got bumped to $12) and dungeon keys($10 each, two a year) are through the eververse(micro transaction) store.
So for those two years, in order to play a season, you would pay through micro transactions.
Bungie Marathon will be worse since it's designed around it as well
It makes me sad to agree... but at the same time I am looking forward to giving it a go. Destiny 2 is so far in, I find it difficult to figure out what I am meant to do first.
Let's compare something similar. Apex Legends and its ridiculous $18/$40 skins make EA a billion each year.
For as much as ppl complain how much they hate microtransactions, they sure don’t act like it. No wonder they aren’t going anywhere.
By "people" you're referring to millions and millions of people. Obviously the ones complaining aren't necessarily the same as the ones spending all that money.
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