Destiny's worst flaw is that it's a game with strong social requirement with nearly no social support features, but luckily when a developer blunders, gamers are quick to take matters in their hands.
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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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.
bungie needs voice chat or im gunna stop playing this forever when gta comes out im missing out on story cos i feel its being ruined by no interaction during co op. (destiny loner)
Same problem I'm having . Finding clans and that is no easy task anyone want to raid add me,psn stavrami
I stopped reading at "Bungie maintains that Destiny isn’t a MMO, but yeah, it is a MMO."
However, I felt I was too harsh and continued reading.
I then came across the part that said "The first thing you need to do, if you still didn’t, is to make a Reddit account" and instantly deleted everything related to that site off of my computer.
TL;DR Version: Go to http://www.destinylfg.com/ for better matchmaking as it's up to date, organized, and the requests last for 1 hour before being deleted.
I simply added people from my clan and my freinds friends. Now i have 20+ active players and all of them have their own friends, getting a group is simple for me. I think matchmaking for the raid would be horrible, especially without voice. With my group we finish in less than 2 hours, but the first time it took 8-10..
I really want to like Destiny, but the end-game is horrible. The whole game is a mess, really.
- The loot system is really lacking.
- The "story" is really lacking.
- Communication is non-existent.
- Missions have zero variation.
- Only one raid dungeon post launch.
- Imbalanced weapons in PvP.
I can go on, but that's the gist. The game reminds me of PSO in a lot of ways, but it's missing all the things that gave PSO its longevity. That being said, I do hope the game gets better over time. I'm sure it will come at a price though. :\