8CN: As the Queen's Wrath event draws to a close tonight, it's time to turn our attention to the next Destiny event: The Iron Banner. The Iron Banner is a one-week Crucible event that's taking the kid gloves off for PvP, removing all of the level balancing and allowing Guardians to compete with all of their abilities and upgraded stats.
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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I like how I'm going to have to approach the matches with a different strategy compared to the Crucible.
With a level 26 Hunter using a Primary weapon of a Shingen-E and a Legendary Sniper Rifle, it looks like I'm going to have to sneak around the map and get as much headshots and blink strikes as possible...
Im Solid Snaking this mode from the higher levels and Exotic Weapon users...
Good article mate, love Destiny so much!
I'm ready to go :-)
Level 29 warlock
- With 2 FWC weapons, and 3 exotic weapons, I should fair pretty well. My stats in the standard crucible are 25+ kills a game, and between 5-10 deaths a game. Simply because some exotic weapons are overpowered, but that's what this Iron Banner event is for. Good luck everyone.
I have to believe completing matches would also raise the iron banner reputation, no?
I'm only lvl 25 warlock but I will certainly be giving it my all. I'm happy finally a pvp event has come up didn't enjoy the queens event cause I'm not into pve.
I'm gonna go hard on this one! All out warfare I'm kinda excited about being at a disadvantage.