VideoGamer.com writes: In short, Bungie is creating a universe in Destiny. A living, breathing universe filled to the brim with lore, characters, nature cycles, environments, activities, AIs and quests for players to get stuck into. It's mind-blowingly ambitious and, from the outside, looks to be every bit as medium-affecting as Halo was back at the dawn of the 21st Century. There are still questions to be answered – and on a personal note, it would have been nice to see more than three minutes of in-game footage – but at the time of this writing, Destiny has gone from being a mysterious project Bungie are working on, to a certifiable monster of a game homing into view on the horizon.
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.
You can tell that they are using the reach engine however the game does looks interesting but like I said if it's a mmo count me out. any ways they never showed which console it will be on not even current gen.
one more thing seeing how this story been up for 17 min and no one commented on it must mean they are unaware this is the reveal video.
It looks interesting, but I am still no sold on the game. It looks to be a lot more fun than Halo was for sure. Once i see more I can better decide.
Read the article, away from my pc, so was not able to watch the reveal.
It does sound interesting.. but I have reservations. If its able to matchmake and allow random people to drop in/drop out.. it would use a similar system to Dark Souls,no?
Very interesting though....
When I read the article, reminded me of Dust... but better...