These are scenes straight from the campaign of Call of Duty: Ghosts; scenes that are depicted in the game rather seriously, as a desperate struggle for surviving American forces. The manner in which the ad depicts war as if it were a fun-filled trip to Disneyland, or indeed, a trip to Vegas, is a disturbing change in the way publishers are marketing their games.
Speaking of Vegas, there’s a moment in the ad for Destiny in which the three guardians, having casually wiped out an army of aliens on the moon, suggest heading to the planet Venus, upon which they all cry “Venus baby!!!” Cue more action-packed scenes of the guardians effortlessly defeating the opposition and going on a galactic tour of sorts around the solar system, telling lame jokes while in the midst of battle. For a bunch of humans fighting a desperate battle to prevent their extinction, they seem pretty nonchalant about the whole thing. It’s also worth noting that their dialogue is more befitting of your typical gamer, and not the highly trained supersoldiers they’re supposed to be.
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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