8CN: Back in September of last year, eyebrows were raised when Grand Theft Auto V clocked in at an impressive $265 million in expenses. Now, all the talk has shifted to Destiny, which is set to almost double that with a reported $500 million budget.
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.
Its a 500 million dollar investment for the entire franchise not just the first game.
We can all hate Activision but when it comes to predicting the next big thing they are bar none.
-Tony Hawk
-Guitar Hero
-Cod MW
-Skylanders
I doubt they would do such a big investment in a new IP if they didn't see something that could be amazing. E3 will be Bungie's time to truly show off Destiny. I really hope we see some end game content thats where the meat of a MMO type game is, leveling is the appetizer.
Man i really wish i could go back in time when FF7 first came out, such great memories.
Why is it such a big deal? How much has been spent on WOW? Is that being wrote about in scrutiny? No. So why do that about this game? It's exactly the same, only they are predicting the amount they are going to spend over the lifetime of the game, which spans multiple console generations. With this kind of commitment this game is going to make them billions. Who's stupid then? Right... Totally stupid investing that much money only to make a lot more in return.
It's really idiotic the way people reacted to this.
I don't recall FF7 ever costing that much, last I checked the most expensive game at that time was Shenmue, and that costed 100 million.
...Activision spent that much... In a COD installment...