Halo was big, WoW was big, and Call of Duty was big but they ain’t got nothin’ on Destiny. Bungie pulls out all the stops and is preparing to drop one of the most important new IPs we’ve ever seen.
We here at COG have been closely keeping an eye on Bungie’s latest massive undertaking, Destiny. While at E3 in LA a couple of weeks ago, we were blown away with the hands-off gameplay demo and to say there was a little Destiny fever on the E3 show floor would be an understatement. We are certainly excited about Bungie’s next venture & for good reason, it looks great so far. Not to mention it is clearly an ambitious game having been in development for approx 7-years or so. The expectations are undoubtedly high as Activision has gone ‘all in’ with Bungie signing them for 10 yrs which suggests we may see several Destiny games. At this point, the prognosis is very good for Destiny so we thought we'd give you five reasons why we believe Destiny will be the biggest new IP launch of all time.
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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Playing Destiny 1 on PC has been something fans have been requesting for years. It looks like Destiny 1 is now playable on PC via the RPCS3 emulator.
Fair points.
As for it being the "Biggest New IP Launch of All-Time", who know? Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I'll definitely crack open my wallet and try to help it get there though :)
it very might well be i will never doubt Bungie because of all they did with the Halo series... this will be a day one purchase for me.
Cant wait to play it on my ps4 woot :)
A must buy for my PS4. Im so excited, also the Division looks fantastic!!
Next year with Destiny, Halo, and Titanfall on dedicated servers...should be great time.