"Destiny has reached many gaming milestones. It holds the record of highest number of pre-orders for a new IP, the most expensive video game in history, over 500 million in revenue within just the first 24 hours and holds over 180 awards and nominations. The campaign is full of solar system vistas to explore and challenging battles to experience. One of the best things about Destiny will be the continued support it will receive from Bungie." -BootHammer
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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Nice review!
Finally someone that get what's Destiny is all about!
Well deserved score, I'm totally hooked on this game.
I'm glad to hear some nice words about this game. I'm enjoying the hell out of it. It almost seems like the people that are enjoying it have been playing the game so much that they haven't even logged onto these sites to post good reviews (including me). So, we're left with a bunch of pissed off journalists who are afraid they're jobs are in jeopardy.
9/10? nine out of ten? a 9 out of 10? No. No. and No. No way in hell. Dont not encourage bungie. they need to do better. this is not some new indie developer giving it its first go at a game. this is bungie where talking about. they are the creators of probably the most important fps ever, and to give them a free pass like this unacceptable. Think about it...the HALO games are in the9 out of 10s range. Is Destiny really up to Halos standards? NO