The Short Pause crew runs a two-man game this week as they tackle all the latest news and trends happening around the video game industry.
- A member praises Machine Games for putting Wolfenstein back on top of the shooter genre thanks to both The New Order and The Old Blood
- Another member talks about why he's looking forward to the Prison of Elders more so than any other mode available in Destiny.
- The fellas talk about another head scratcher that was a Nintendo Direct, this time for Splatoon.
- Reviews for Wolfenstein: The Old Blood and Breach & Clear
- And much MORE!
Nintendo has recently restored Wii U Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon online after five months of being offline.
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 think it's rather silly that so many gamers are saying Prison of Elders "looks" easy or that "it sucks compared to a raid"...especially considering most gamers haven't even played it yet. I'm hoping this mode turns out great simply because more options is always a good thing, especially if they are good options!