Excerpt from piece: "It doesn’t come as much of a surprise, and I’m sure most are aware already, but Bungie have nerfed the ‘loot cave’. No longer can players stand idly shooting at a black abyss only to be rewarded with exotic and legendary items. Naturally this has lead to some criticism, but I think with fair consideration it’s easy to see why Bungie wouldn’t want the game to devolve into this mindless grind-fest and that leads to the bottom line; If you’re playing only to level up to 30, then you’re not likely to have a good time."
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 really do like this game but they need to fix the loot system. im a level 27 titian and have over 80 hours in the game and i have friends that are level 16 with exotics and legendary weapons. i on the other hand have yet to get 1 exotic and all my legendary engrams turn to blues and greens.
The Black Market agent is the best way to get your first exotic, for legendary weapons and armor you should be working on your factions.
This topic is actually the first time I've said to myself "f u bungie!!"
I have 60 hours in. Level 27 hunter... Have never seen an exotic anything..
I finally grind my way with strange coins and notes of light.. so today was the day!
Only to find xurs prices raised to 2 coins more then I have (items last week were 13 and 17 I believe, now you need 23) but OK.. Fine... Next week
But bought the exotic engram.. Ya, awesome bungie.. Give me an item for a different class.. "You worthless pieces of s..."
Just raged in the moment... But when denying people from this item for 60 hours of gameplay.. Make me grind my ass off to get it, and you somehow think its fair to give me a completely worthless and unusable item?
Huge dick move by them..
that was a waste of time :/