EGMR writes: "Destiny being playable so soon was a nice surprise by Sony surprised at E3 when they announced the alpha for PS4 this past weekend. Many of us were giddy like school girls to get our keys and jump right into the action. After an initial download of around six to seven gigabytes, it was time to jump into the online world of Bungie’s new shooter, and see what it’s made of. Just keep in mind that this is the very game that Activision is reportedly spending $500 million on all inclusive, and it needs to sell around 15-16 million units to just break even, which prompted a big discussion among us back in early May. With that in mind, it’s safe to say that there is a hell of a lot riding on Destiny, and all of it will depend on its ability to attract players for a long term investment."
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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Of course it's not a true Alpha! But this article is stating the obvious. The fact that this website has gone to all the effort to make an article about it indicates they have no understanding of a game's development process.
A real alpha is when the initial concept of a game has been decided and the developers put together a basic but functioning software model. Normally with basic graphics. The idea is to test the functionality of it, how it works and plays and then build from there.
This Destiny 'Alpha' is just a marketing term. It really is just an early beta. 3 months from launch and the game is practically finished. But the Bungie team have to test things like the network load, game balance player behaviours etc.
I don't think ive ever even played a beta that's as polished and 'release-worthy' as this alpha. Hell, most games on release are more buggy and less stable than this alpha, lol.
Bungie is really doing a good job on the game.
This Alpha is just a special demo that Sony cut a deal for. It's a tactic that has been done before and will be done again. No doubt Bungie are getting valuable network data from all this but as far as the game goes ...this is pretty much what you will get day one.
I dunno if I'm playing the same alpha that other people are. I keep reading how amazing this game is and how beautiful it looks but to me it doesn't look like anything special and honestly I think it's kinda boring