"Bungie released its newest IP this past week in Destiny. It not only was the largest new IP launch in gaming history, but it also managed to gross over $500 million in sales. Destiny skyrocketed up sales charts in the UK and it's likely to be the highest selling game on the NPD charts for September." - Stealthy Box
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 agree with the points made in the article and like the writer, despite all the flaws you can spend ages talking about, I find I still can't get enough of the game.
Ya, people need to get over their own expectations for Destiny. It seems like my entire friends list is playing Destiny and we are all super addicted to it.
I feel that there is far too much coverage of games at the moment. Websites continually speculate on what a game will be like and this is then talked about day in, day out in forums, comment sections and opinion pieces all over the internet. The excitement builds to extraordinary heights until expectations become totally unrealistic and everyone is left thinking the game isn't what they expected.
Sure the game has it's faults but I really like it. Then again, I didn't have high expectations for it in the first place.