Recently an article got a lot of hate for stating it hopes that Destiny fails for the good of the gamers. This ridiculous notion is dissected by Lazygamer.net
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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I'm still not sure about Destiny. I don't like the idea of any game failing, but it sure seems like a ton of money to invest in new IP.
I think it's important that Activision has another pillar on which to lean, as Call of Duty's prominence will surely falter. Activision can't keep relying on COD and Blizzard.
I want Destiny to succeed, it looks amazing. I mean just look at these day and night cycles! http://n4g.com/news/1538308...
THEY are amazing!!.....I sorta have a thing for skys in games, and these are some of the best by far.
Beyond that Bungie is putting so much love into this game, how could you want it to fail? Cause some DLC?Pleassee. It's just some mediocre guns, who cares.
$500 million investment over ten years? With that kind of cash, Destiny needs to succeed, and I so want it to. The Alpha was amazing!
That moment when people write articles to rebut another article.
I agree with the premise but still.