Twinfinite: This past week, Destiny gave us a reason to brush away the blanket of dust that had been collecting on our consoles all summer. We looked forward to putting our new boxes through their paces with a sparkly fresh IP with a brand new story, new characters, and new weapons; the possibilities seemed endless. When September 9th rolled around, however, and the initial launch day excitement started to unwind, it became pretty clear that Destiny, beneath its star studded, gorgeously textured facade, was just that – an ordinary shooter.
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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Playing Destiny 1 on PC has been something fans have been requesting for years. It looks like Destiny 1 is now playable on PC via the RPCS3 emulator.
*is enjoying the game greatly*
So Developers can take the criticism and improved upon it. Assassin's creed is a great example. It was a hyped new IP that did only avg on reviews for the first game but the developer took the criticism and made the sequels better and the result is it became a very successful franchise for UBISoft. I have no doubt Watchdogs will fillow suite and hope Bungie does as well with Destiny 2.
I'm glad it's not been well received critically because if it had been doing well then we'll get more games like it and I don't want that....
It's very cliche` to bash Destiny these days.. it's a profitable game so those that wanted it to fail can quietly fade into oblivion. They tried something semi-new, which was to make a shooter with MMO characteristics. Fact of the matter is my Xbox friends have stopped playing Ghosts (which makes me happy) so we can play something else until CoD:AW comes out, then that'll be what we play. I expect Destiny will fill that 1.5 months of time, and then it'll be relegated to my game binder to rarely see the light of day. Much like Titanfall, and Diablo..
Its GREAT for GAMES. It tells people not to buy shit in the 3-4 days before a company allows reviews to be released!