Matt at Codec Moments writes: "On the eve of Destiny launching worldwide to much fanfare and, arguably, the longest and most expensive advertising campaign in gaming to date, I’ve begun to wonder if it actually has an adverse affect. I’ve seen most of the TV commercials, the website banners, the email newsletters from game stores, have played the alpha and beta demos, and even have it on pre-order through the persistence of GAME (though I haven’t paid anything, they gave me the £5 deposit to do it); yet I’m not interested in playing it. Welcome to Planet Hype."
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
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.
In Episode 1 of Spot On, a new weekly news show, Gamespot talks about the dangers of chasing a trend.
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.