Sony is now offering the option to upgrade your Destiny digital pre-order to the Destiny: Digital Guardian Edition.
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.
That's great news for people going digital with Destiny.
That's the way it *should* work in these cases. Nice job, Sony.
I want to cancell my physical Gamestop preorder and get this instead.
I am highly entrenched in the physical game disc camp but with this game I am thinking I might would buy it digital if a deal shows up like the one for Wolfenstein TNO. I think it went up on PSN preorder for $53.99 for plus members.
The thing with Destiny is I think it's going to have staying power with tons of people playing. After playing the Alpha I expect it to be playing the game for along time. The level cap may be a problem here but I suspect maybe they will increase level cap in add ons in between Destiny releases or with new Destiny games themselves expanding the level cap & the universe. IDK, we'll see.
So, with the expected staying & playing power of Destiny, I could buy it digital & have it on my HDD while having another disc game sitting in my drive switching back & forth between Destiny & another game of my choice without getting my lazy butt up as much lol.
If no deal shows up on PSN then I don't know if I can justify getting it over the disc/boxed game. If I do see a PS+ deal, even just a few bucks off, then I'll probably cancel my Gamestop preorder & download it.
What are you guys going to do? Are you going Digital or Physical with Destiny?
Is that $90 digital edition coming to Xbone?