AusGamers recently spoke with Bungie engineering lead, Chris Butcher, about various Destiny-related topics, including just how networking and matchmaking work without an active UI, weapons, upgrades and customisation, loot and trading, vehicles and getting around the game-world, how they plan to foster the Destiny community and much, much more.
From the interview:
"...That helps you get around the larger areas, and if you’ve seen the Law of the Jungle trailer, there’s a different kind of vehicle. That was one of The Fallen vehicles called the Pike, that we were showing off there. So there are other vehicles, both enemy vehicles and player vehicles.
AusGamers: Can you get in the enemy vehicles?
Chris: In that particular one, you can, yes."
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 want to know more about character customization !
Like how many helmets,or if I can change shoulder pads etc
I want to know about possibly getting in on the Beta
Pike racing anyone? Heheh...I can't wait for Destiny to come out.
Definitely one of my most anticipated titles.