Jon from The Game Bolt: "We are back at it again. Once again Destiny pulls you back into its universe with more gear, new story missions and a new raid. I found myself super excited to jump back into it and it was time well spent. Only this time you get to slice aliens in half with an axe!"
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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2hr story campaign, reskinned enemies and bosses. What did they pay you to write this garbage?
Failed to pull me back in,the short story was decent and had it's moments but ultimately it just feels like a cash grab to me, the majority of time spent was doing the same repetitive tasks that have been available since launch. I'm sure those who haven't grown bored of Destiny will love it but for the rest of us, there is nothing here that will drag you back in the same way that TTK managed to do. While value is subjective, there is absolutely nothing here to justify it costing over half the price of a brand new game.
Those thinking of picking it up, check out IGN's review, it's pretty much spot on with what RoI does well and the issues it has for a lot of returning players.