Ryan McCaffreyNaturally, Destiny's big new world elicits a lot of questions. As does Bungie's new approach to first-person shooters in general. We thought we'd help get some answers, so we solicited your questions and sent them Bungie's way. Bungie's Eric "urk" Osborne was kind enough to answer them.
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 would really like to be able to talk to my enemies, I like to hear their sounds of despair as I crush them.
Really cool of them to do this for the community. I know there was a lot of questions people had and a majority of them didn't expect this at all.
I'm starting to wonder about how much they are hiding..
One disappointment I had was being able to actually travel between worlds yourself.. Or lack thereof
But didn't you select a ship in the beta? Why even bother if your ship is mearly a loading screen?
Part of me was put off by the beta.. But I'm trying to give bungie the benefit of the doubt here
It would be awesome if you were able to unlock the MJOLNIR Mark VI armour from Halo.