The Destiny beta is finally over but what new have we really learnt about Bungie’s blockbuster-to-be, and what questions remain?
The Destiny beta is now finished. As with the alpha it ran almost a day longer than it was supposed to and, in the end, was open to everyone. Although there’ll probably be some kind of new preview at Gamescom next month that’s the last most people will see of the game until it launches for real on September 9. It was a substantial beta, but even though a lot of the content had already been in the alpha it still worked as a very comprehensive preview of the final game.
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 can't really disagree with the this article.
How is joining friends in any way awkward?
I agree with some of the article.
The people saying the game won't be big enough, and then saying it should like Halo,need to realise that this will be the largest game Bungie have ever made.