EGMR writes: "Destiny is the mother of all mixed bags. You've got a fun shooter built on rock solid mechanics with a gorgeous art direction and a great PvP offering, but you've also got an abysmal story, excessively repetitive and unrewarding quests, a barren and lifeless world and a poor endgame. In that way it's a contradiction. It feels like the foundations of a much more substantial game, yet at the same time I can't see what that substance is or will be. As of right now the only reason to stick around is the Crucible, and however long that lasts is up to you once real competition releases. Destiny is ultimately the product of far too much hype without the required pay off, falling dramatically short. It certainly won't be in my mind come the year end."
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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Just keeps getting better and better...
i love the game personaly, i stoped playing diablo 3 and battle field for this game,fun as hell so far.
it isn't even beautiful. Killzone 2 looks better than this game.
It was fun until i hit level 20 then its just LUCK based levelling which gets really old really fast.