Games in Asia: "Oh and the loading screens are awkwardly long. Transitioning from the first mission to the Citadel, the game’s social hub, took a fair bit of time. Almost one minute of just staring at a loading screen, not something you’d expect from a next-gen game. Even more shockingly, this was with a digital copy of the game, not the retail disc release.."
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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Things I do not like about my experience with Destiny.
Story and limited voice acting is BORING..
Extreme lack of single player story driven cinematics.
Very linear.
The gameplay and visuals are great but so far as a single player immersive story driven game it is letting me down.
Retreading levels gets old.
I am sure if you only prefer multiplayer than you might be having a better go of it.
Saying that I am only about 5 hours in and I really hope things change up more than just the scenery.
As far as a great story and all around awesome game I can't wait to get my hands on Halo 2 remastered, even moreso now!
game was WAYYYYYY over hyped by IGN, but it would make sense seeing that Activision has deep business associations with IGN through them buying the IGN Pro League.. be warned people..
Destiny sucks. No reviews in 2 days. Yeah Activision and Bungie paid big bucks to keep the reviews quiet. That must be a lot of that $500 million budget they had for Destiny. The rest of the money was spent on over hyping it.
Meh. I'm bummed out because the lore sounds great but it's executed rather poorly in-game compared to most others.