Forbes - Bungie’s Destiny is coming. Maybe fairly soon. The legendary developer behind the Halo series gave us our first, fleeting look at its new online shooter yesterday, and we saw a more matte vision of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi future taking shape. It’s a world where you can travel from the ruins of Chicago to Mars, questing alone or with friends in a story that will evolve over the course of several years.
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 think the people are too damn excited about the ps4 to give a crap about this game atm
I really dont think bungie has anything left to show us. The key people all left, and microsoft let them go for a reason. Heck halo 4 is the first halo that wasn't a disappointment since halo 2. Their entire legacy is based around low fov, auto aim, regen health, and massive marketing.
Destiny so far is just a bunch of folks talking about how great they are, but nothing to show us why. They just talk about how they did something people liked a decade ago.
Hopefully this will take over COD