GameDynamo - "Destiny has a lot to live up to. Walking around E3 I overheard a group of people saying that Destiny will be Bungie's magnum-opus. I think it's a little early to say that (considering they did create the Halo series), but it has been looking to be shaping up into something special. "
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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Playing Destiny 1 on PC has been something fans have been requesting for years. It looks like Destiny 1 is now playable on PC via the RPCS3 emulator.
its a day one.
The game will hopefully be a lot of fun, but we need to learn to stop hyping things up to such unreasonable levels. We're just setting ourselves up for disappointment. No matter how good a game winds up being these days, it seems it's never able to live up to the level of hype we've built up for it long before it was even released.
The alpha demo is pretty awesome. They don't give away too much but the gameplay is nice. Feels a lot like Halo. The music is just wonderful!
Playing the alpha atm, the competative mp seems much more polished than the open world co-op campaign. Graphics much crisper in mp and it is really fun.
After playing in the Alpha I can say that this game is gonna be epic... The Open world portion is incredible, The world is extremely dense and the gameplay is tight. Very impressed. The and its awesome to see other players just jump right and go on about their game, I myself met a cool player and we pretty much teamed up and shot our way through parts of the campaign.
Multiplayer is fun and the classes seem balanced... My character is the Warlock... Level 7 currently... Its pretty polished for an Alpha Build. I cant wait to get into the Beta and then into the full experience on Sept 9th... The experience is fantastic.
I didn't think they'd have met this ambition of having a shared world shooter experience with a world so huge. but they so far have Nailed it. Impressed by it.