Bungie's own Luke Smith revealed that Xur's new "three coins" consumable in The Taken King, which buffs exotic drop rates for in-game bosses, will only be acquired by gambling Strange Coins.
"What Xur has on him is an item that lets you basically gamble the chance to find an exotic on the next boss you kill." Smith also said that the gamble would pay off in dividends, though: I got more exotics in the first weekend while testing the buff than I've ever gotten in Destiny before."
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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lol, more lotto crap.
Bungie: "Are you not lucky enough to find the exotic you need? Well now, step right up and try our new and improved Three Coins buff. Just take a spin with your strange coin at a chance to increase your chance! Who doesn't love RNG methods to improve RNG methods?!?"
Erm the pea is under the 2nd cup... crap ok yet another go....
all those people sitting on several hundred strange coins will have no problem.