Muaz from Twinfinite writes: "The hype train for Bungie’s upcoming Destiny has been chugging steadily along and after the well-received beta, has been at full throttle. Unsurprisingly, people are foaming at the mouth to get back into the game, and are willing to pay pretty ridiculous prices to do so; especially when it was announced that retailers were having to cancel certain Destiny: Ghost Edition preorders."
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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when people say destiny is no good then who is buying it i just buy my today cant wait for the best fps game of all times
One of the rare collections I actually want, Game Stop and Amazon are sold out entirely. I'll have to wait.
People are bitter who say it's no good.
let the haters hate and just play the game if you enjoy it.
I would never ever pay that much for no edition,unless I had the $$$ to blow and unless it came with signed something.
That's way too overpriced damn
none of them are going for 1k they are going for around $300