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Destiny Review: A Microcosm Of What Could Be | Dual Pixels

DP:"The Universe, once in a Golden Age of Advancement, has fallen victim to a deadly enemy. It’s our duty as Guardians to protect the last remaining city in the Universe. When embarking on your destiny, you have the choice between three different classes: Titan, Warlock and Hunter, each with varying abilities. You also have the ability to create your legend out of three selectable races: Exo, Fallen and Awoken. The abilities between classes offer some nice variety, but the races have no stat-based differences, only physical appearances. The customization, especially for a game that gets thrown around with the term MMO quite often, is quite negligible."

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venom063531d ago

no way in HELL in this game an 8.5 Its time to be honest.

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Destiny Made Over $160 Million In Microtransaction Revenue In Less Than 2 Years

Destiny has made over $160 million in MTX revenue, and these numbers only account the data from late 2017 to early 2019.

Sgt_Slaughter356d ago

That's extremely low for microtransactions, especially for a game that's essentially designed around it

LucasRuinedChildhood356d ago (Edited 356d ago )

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.

Rude-ro356d ago (Edited 356d ago )

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.

Sonic1881356d ago (Edited 356d ago )

Bungie Marathon will be worse since it's designed around it as well

Kurt Russell356d ago

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.

buffig356d ago

I think FIFA alone makes over $1bn a year from mtx

anast356d ago

FIFA promotes a worldwide sport. It should make more money than destiny.

CantThinkOfAUsername356d ago (Edited 356d ago )

Let's compare something similar. Apex Legends and its ridiculous $18/$40 skins make EA a billion each year.

z2g356d ago

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.

spicelicka356d ago

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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Father__Merrin356d ago

There's millions that purchase MTX and there's nothing we can do about it

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Stop Trying To Make Destiny

In Episode 1 of Spot On, a new weekly news show, Gamespot talks about the dangers of chasing a trend.

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Destiny 1 Becomes Playable on PC via Emulation

Playing Destiny 1 on PC has been something fans have been requesting for years. It looks like Destiny 1 is now playable on PC via the RPCS3 emulator.

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spoonard508d ago

I've been thinking about playing through D1 again before it goes away...

CobraKai507d ago

That’s the sad reality of a game like this. I bought it, invested lots of money, and it can go away at anytime. I still think this was more fun than 2.

jeromeface506d ago

prob because 2 is a grindfest slog

spoonard504d ago

That's the bummer of 'games as a service'.