INQ: As the Destiny beta test takes a two day break for maintenance, the overall impressions from the Playstation 4 and Playstation 3 experience have been positive so far. While the game is technically sound for a beta and sports some solid and exciting gameplay, Bungie’s “shared world shooter” lacks two components that make it feel like it is an experience being shared with others – the ability to communicate and play the game locally on the same TV.
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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The only negative thing is not hearing people in PVP, it's meant to be played with friends though..But sadly I hate wearing headsets.
I dont care about talking really, my headphones are really good, twilight headset but its USB and has a separate jack for microphone which unfortunately my PS4 doesnt have...and I cant plug it into the controller because then it tries playing all the sound through my microphone lol I'd like to talk but I'm not going to replace my headset anytime soon just to chat... maybe one day...
They could add this into the final game. Who knows, but they should add a voice chat invitation of sorts. That way, I can ask or inquire about their awesome gear or if they'd like to do Co-op missions. Etc.
I miss gold spammers. /s
They could just make it mute everyone else other than party members by default or something, but still allow you to unmute them. When I'm playing by myself, it is kind of annoying not hearing anything out of other players I run into. I don't think they found the perfect solution.