Bungie has requested people not judge their MMO action shooter from day one reviews, but that hasn't stopped a few sites judging the social interactive game as over-hyped, boring, with very little to do less than 24 hours into the game being out.
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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I think people are just having knee jerk reactions to the servers having just been switched on and not seeing anyone around.
I am honestly not even waiting for reviews. i think the author was spot on.
I was sold from the Beta, mine is on the way from amazon. I will make my own judgments then.
Peoples reactions are expected, especially with some thats new. There has been so much hype behind this game, and now people are saying the whole story takes about 10 hours.
The Destiny Hype train might be its undoing.
People talking of overhype this and over hype that probably never played the beta, i got mine yesterday and yeah it was a little empty, but a few of my friends are all getting their this weekend so we are going to put it through its paces then.