GoodGameBro writes, "Whether you were lucky enough to try the Destiny Alpha last month on Sony PlayStation 4, or whether the Destiny Beta will be (or has been) your first taste of the upcoming title on your console of choice, one aspect of the game that you’ll have to learn quickly will be understanding your inventory as it relates to the Weapons and Armor of Destiny’s world. When you begin your Guardian’s new life in-game, your Weapons and Armor will be bare-bones, scrapped together by your Ghost to give you just enough to survive and fight your way back to the safety of The Tower. As you progress through the Story missions and onto Explore, Strike, and Crucible gameplay, you’ll get access to vendors and find items organically in the Frontier which you’ll want to evaluate to see what gives you the best chance to survive and fight The Darkness."
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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