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Destiny has taken a lot of well-deserved heat for its approach to storytelling, but after our recent cover story visit to Bungie and extensive hands-on time with The Taken King, it’s clear that the studio is moving towards a far more robust narrative experience in future releases. Knowing that existing story elements are about to become a bigger focus, and with only weeks before the new installment, we’re here to break down what we know about Destiny’s fiction – no grimoire cards required.
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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This was a great summary, really long but the funny commentary made the length bearable. I really just wanted to see how much I missed but it wasn't that much. Having read the quotes on all the exotics and raid armor and weapons helped a lot.
GameInformer could seriously sell printed copies of this if they attached so concept artworks to it.
This was a good read. If only the original Destiny released with the story inserted into the game, I wouldn't be so, bleh, towards it.
That said, I've played the game, and I'm not compelled to return.
I've got severe Destiny fatigue as well.
Really, all that story is in Destiny. It is too damn hidden then (from playing it for over 400 hours).
Honestly, I gave up on the story after the first week and just started the grind and then got majorly fatiuged as well. I have no plans to ever go back to destiny.
Hopefully the changes to the ghost Bungie mentioned will address the lack of 'explicit' lore in the game.
The story is actually pretty good, awesome really, it just needs to be better expressed in the game.
I for one enjoy it a lot and already pre-ordered Taken King, but its good to know that many things will get better for vanilla players as well.