There’s something special about Destiny. Bungie and Activision have put together a game that has outsold every new IP in history, but has done so without allowing reviewers to have early access to the title. As many of us at PowerLeveled have been working together to work our way from level one to raid-ready, Destiny simply isn’t ready to be reviewed in the conventional sense – and it may never be.
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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don't defend it-it's not your reason to do so for hits.
Every game can be reviewed. Destiny is no different.
Destiny is not above criticism, but it is hard to look at it and say it should be judged the same way as most other shooters.
LOL seriously making excuses because they sold you a incomplete game? The game is a $60 product, and when you buy it you have to review it at its current state. You can't say that there may be great DLC in the future because that is going to cost additional money and when people are considering buying the game they want to know the value it is going to bring them today because that is when they want to play it. It may get better in the future but the price will also go down in the future. To me the game seems pretty straight forward, it is basically a single-player/co-op game plus multiplayer. It is not a MMO or anything else people are trying to make the game up to be.
Destiny can't be reviewed as a typical game because of its hybrid build. Do you review it as an fps? An mmo? You can't really review it like borderlands because it isn't as pve focused as that and reviewing it like Halo PvP really isn't right either. I'd have to agree with the fact you can't really review it. It's too early and with content coming out like an mmo's does the numbers will always be changing.