"Destiny was released almost two weeks ago, and most people managed to get to level 20 with no problems. However, the real struggle is beyond that point, since you can only level up by getting new and better gear."
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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Interesting article, since I disagree with most of it. XD
For one thing, I have never once gotten an item from a bounty outside of completing an exotic bounty or something related to story (those never give legendaries though). I also couldn't disagree more about PVE bounties being more of a time sink than the PVP ones. Sure, there are some easy PVP ones, but there are also some tedious PVP ones. Like, look at my bounties today.
PVE) 20 3x kill streaks with super (stupidly easy with my blade dancer), defeat 30 enemies with melee, do the sword mission with heroic (can be done at level 11), complete a strike without dying (soloed Devil's Lair), complete 6 missions on Mars and the 200 or so moon drops. This stuff was so easy, I did the moon, sword, melee and 25% of the super bounties in like 11 minutes...
Now lets look at my PVP bounties...
PVP) Participate in 10 salvage captures (super easy, shame the playlist is gone), defeat 10 guardians from behind, defeat 15 via rocket (requires you to get the heavy weapon ammo, which is easy, but also takes time), defeat 15 via super (another that is easy, but also requires luck and timing to get done), 10 fusion rifle sprees (kill 3 enemies without changing weapons or reloading), earn 5 enforcer medals (requires someone to not only get a 5 kill streak, but for you to kill them making it very luck based)...
Many of these will take you MUCH longer to do in PVP. Heck, just one of those "play 5 matches of ____" takes me longer to do than all of the PVE ones.
Finally, the easiest way to get legendary gear is via Vanguard marks. You get like 4 per community event, 5 from the daily and if you just do one of those every day for a week you get 63 and thats enough to buy armor (doing bounties for rep will get you to level 2 in no time). Or I guess you could argue it's even faster and easier to just do the weekly nightfall or raid to get them. The raid has at least 7 places where you can get loot and each loot drop will be either a legendary, ascendent energy or exotic and nightfalls typically give something big like an exotic at the end.
Theres a better way. Ive noticed a small group of players shooting into a little spawn cave of hive. I watched on to see what was happening but they where just farming. I done it for a while and got loads of gear and the odd legendary engram. Pretty boring but easy
They seriously need to get a life
the only good items i've ever received were gifts left at the post office from going up cryptarch levels. i've gotten a few legendary engrams, but never received any legendary items from them. i received a legendary machine gun and legendary gauntlets from gifts, and i bought a legendary helmet and chest armor with vanguard marks.
i've never received any items from doing bounties, and i try to do them all.
They need to make it so that legendary engrams only give legendary items. It's just disappointing to think you got one and then not. Make it so they drop less often but at least make it a sure thing so a man doesn't get excited for nothing.