Are we seeing lots of positive responses to the Destiny beta test? Have expectations for Bungie's shared-world shooter actually risen?
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.
It honestly felt more like a demo to me. The game feels and looks really polished. A few developers should learn from them when they do the opposite and release unfinished products to retail even after having a "beta".
Everybody I talk to is enjoying the beta a lot, even one of my friends who was skeptical on Destiny went and pre-order it due to the beta. I say yes the beta is having a good impact on the gaming community.
Is a beautiful 25 degree sunny day here, and I'm sitting in work thinking about going home and playing the Destiny Beta.
So yeah, its had a positive impact on me.
I was massively skeptical about Destiny but gave it a preorder to try out the beta and I am so glad I did!
It has been a long time since a game has kept my attention for more than a couple of hours a day, I stuck the beta on and the next thing I knew it was 7 hours later....nothing short of a masterpiece so far....
The alpha turned me over to preorder the full game. It's bad the beta is offline now till tomorrow. After the beta ends, it will be a long wait till september.