Ben Kuchera - Polygon:
"A month-old story about the budget of Activision and Bungie’s Destiny is making the rounds again, because there’s no expiration date on outrage or headlines with huge numbers. $500 million is a ton of money, and that’s a giant figure even by the standards of Hollywood accounting."
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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After playing just the Alpha so far I can say that it should do very well once the full game hits. I am excited to see just where the story goes not just in the first game but as the series progresses in the years to come. All told yes that is a big number that has been spent for the game but it is money well spent and I think Destiny could become the next big gaming franchise.
500 million.......
That is insane....Destiny for their sakes better be like the second coming of gaming.
So far to me it looks inexplicably average.
Destiny is just Borederlands, Halo, an DC universe smashed all into one.. its fun, but definitely dont see it lasting years like Activisions original plan... I give Destiny 3 months before everyones like uggh Destiny, lets play Assassins or Far Cry or Battlefield, or Call of Doody or ANYTHING ELSE!!!!!
People have blown this WAAAAY out of proportion. This is a brand new IP, with a new engine (supposedly...but this IS Bungie we're talking about...), and a 10 yr. exclusive publishing deal with the Devil himself, Bobby Kotick. The "$500 million" is an investment in the entire future of this franchise, including a ton of marketing $$; it is NOT the development cost of this first game. Hell, Activision hasn't spent that kind of money on the last 4-5 COD games COMBINED.
For that type of money I hope it comes to PC as well.