GameZone's Matt Liebl: "I like Destiny, I really do. Mechanically, the gameplay feels great. Admittedly, though, there are quite a few decisions made by Bungie that have left me baffled. Like, for instance, the inability to skip a cutscene that you've already seen. This is just one example of some of head scratching decisions made by Bungie, and just one of the ones I'd like to see changed in the (hopefully near) future."
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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1. SKIPPABLE CUTSCENES - Yes, but not a must it's not that bad.
2. ADD LIGHT TO UNCOMMON (GREEN) ITEMS - NO, just NO
3. F*CK RANDOM DECRYPTIONS - Yes indeed eff him and his decrypts, however we do love the fact his random decryptions can get us higher tier weapons/armor yet cry when it doesn't work. Double edge sword here and goes both ways. Besides the amount of items that get decrypted does balance out these random drops.
4. PERFORMANCE-BASED CRUCIBLE REWARDS - I do believe in MVP rewards or something of such, but higher items is not the answer. Just a reward will do.
5. MORE LOOT - Looting is fine, more of it makes will break the system. Besides there are other means of obtaining loot, farming specific spots, so it's just looking in the right place.
this is the greatest FPS ever. Period.
game is fine now im just waiting for expansions