Friend of the show Frank(@Emaster1980) from the Cross Border Gaming podcast and RetroFungeon joins the GE crew this week. Despite recently hijacking another podcast Frank has few demands, if any. Mike(@AssaultSuit) is still happy about Mad Men. @BigRob029 is drinking and enjoying the surprisingly unflavored Destiny Kool-aid. Lastly Aaron(@Ind1fference) learns that a certain film is anything but great and powerful. We also discuss: HarmoKnight, ColdSlither Podcast, Gears of War Judgement demo, DarkStalkers Resurreciton, Super Hexagon, DJMax Technika Tune, Dead Space 3, Alien Spidy, Tumbleweed Express, Halo 4, Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams, Destiny, The Great and Powerful Oz, RetroFungeon, Harlem Nights, Richard Pryor, Drop the beat like an ugly Baby, Silver Hawks, DLC Quest Live Freemium or Die, The Office, Seal Team 12 and more.
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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