Destiny’s beta was supposed to end a few hours ago, yet the servers are still up at the moment of this writing. Bungie isn’t exactly known for dropping the axe on the cabling as soon as the clock’s arm reaches the twelve. Yet, it's soon going to end, and to help saying goodbye, here are some enormous and rather spectacular panoramic screenshots.
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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Let it go my son :(
It will be a long wait till september...
But wednesday will make things a but better ofcourse (TLOU)
They've said the beta will end when they say it ends, and the 27th was just a target, not set in stone.
Unfortunately, I think most of us will walk away with a sour taste now, what with the recent "one zone per map" news.
Lots of debating and trolling and flaming to come before September.
If Activision has any sense, they'll be putting Bungie on the defence and damage control first thing Monday morning, clarifying the worries we have.
the beta was simply amazing. i can't wait for the final product, TLOU will keep me busy until september
I just logged in. Gotta get my fix before its gone lol