If you’re on Facebook or Twitter then you know that nearly everyone has been playing and loving the Destiny Alpha. Though the portion of the game that’s in the alpha is sizable, there is a lot more to it and some secret areas have been found.
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 had to stop playing b/c I was getting hooked and despite knowing it was an alpha, part of me hoped I could just find ways to keep playing. The wait will be terrible. I dont know if I will put myself through this again in July.
Not only is it sizable its freakin huge. I think a cool touch is not giving the player a world map. Makes the exploration fun and mysterious.
I didn't find all those areas but I did find the area from the first demo. It felt so awesome finding out it was there. Later I led a couple of my friends there and the whole time we were talking about how amazing the Alpha had been. The fact that it is just a small part of the full game and yet it had so many areas in it and so much to do was mind-blowing. I really cannot wait for the beta just to see what else is added and I know once the full game hits I will be spending most of my gaming time with this game. I am even looking forward to playing more of the PvP and I have been focusing more on SP games lately because I got so tired of the same MP stuff in other shooters.
All I can say is that I miss the game already and cant wait till final release. Destiny was barely on my radar but after playing nonstop all weekend on a damn Alpha im beyond hyped for this game.