Play: "Every month in Play Magazine, we take a hot topic and look at the arguments for and against. Desinty is the hot topic this time around with X-ONE’s Josh West arguing that Destiny was designed to be a time sink, rather than a great game. Come back next week for the counter argument from Play Editor Luke Albigés."
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 was deeply dissapointed, big talks, great advertising etc. But a big lack of content what made me realise I was sitting on my couch like a zombie on auto-pilot playing this game. Gameplay is great but everything else is way below what they promised. I don't understand why people can play this everyday when there is nothing new! Same shit everyday
But als long you don't care Bungie and Activision are laughing...
Why it's not : Lots of people still play and enjoy it.
Move on and play something else if you're not one of them, mmmkay?
Still millions playing.
Keep trying, though.
The nail in the coffin will only come if they don't change the face of Destiny. I will admit that Destiny lacked content at the beginning and a game that was stripped into DLC just to sell. But after months of not playing and hearing negative comments I thought it was the end for this game.
I said to myself "It's done and nothing will change because the developer won't listen to their community" Then my buddy tells me that Bungie is changing the way we play Destiny and there're finally listening to the fans. Implementing ideas we had, etc.
After that I decided to play through the first expansion for the first time and get ready for the House Of Wolves release. I am excited to play Destiny again but mark my words if Bungie doesn't deliver on what they say, it will be the final nail in the coffin for me and other gamers alike.
Just my opinion
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