With Destiny leading the way, are betas really better than demos?
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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Betas are better than demos for devs on many fronts imo. you don't have to present as highly polished an experience as you do (should) in a demo. Demos are supposed to be representative of final product... betas don't carry that weight on their shoulders. Betas also can be done early enough to help devs get good feedback on a game in progress vs a demo that pretty much is final product. We need look no further than BF Hardline as an example of a Beta being a good tool for the Developer. Feedback was bad, they pulled the game back to re-tool. Had they waited and put out a demo in say early October that game would have died a fiery death. As it stands it has a fighting chance now to be good.
I'd prefer beta because I can make an informered purchase decision well before a game releases. Many times a demo comes out at release or after. Sometimes you just don't want to wait and get burned with a crap game.