NowGamer: "There have been a lot of complaints about Destiny’s newest event – the PvP Iron Banner mode. Bungie promised that the game mode (which is due to come off playlists on 14 October) would justify the amount of time players sunk into upgrading legendary and exotic weapons – typically an arduous and thankless task."
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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What!? That's great! Who would even want it to be unbalanced? What kind of loser wants to win an encounter because they grinded more?
I haven't been playing it, because despite being level 27 I'm not interest in an unbalanced playlist, but this makes me want to give it a go.
If anything Iron Banner feels more balanced than regular crucible matches...
In a nutshell , some have been complaining about imbalances , instead of questionning their skills as well . Even if there are indeed issues in pvp .
Then when they finally get their exotics gears and weapons , they imagined they'd get to slaughter some lambs the same way they were slaughtered (still not questions their playstyle and skills) .
Now at their horror and shock , they still can get killed by the "plebs" . Of course something is wrong here , this shouldnt be possible /s
Yeah, I'm level 29, armor is maxed out, I got a fully upgraded suros regime auto rifle and a fully upraded shotgun and legendary machine gun and I'd say I'm an average pvp player...
In the iron banner, I'm still averaging the same amount of kills that I was in the regular crucible and getting killed just as much.. so yeah, there's not much, if any difference in the iron banner.. people still spamming shotguns and busting out specials at the worst moment (for me, anyways..LOL).
Yes..,I am very disappointed with iron banner..been waiting on it for months for it to turn out to be the same mp I've been playing with minute differences....and a lvl 17 kills me one more time I'm going to throw my controller...
Also it's so leggy...,I've caught more lag during this event the. In the entire time I've played the game...