By sheer measure of the millions of users in the fanbase, Destiny has been a breakout success since its launch in September. As of the first major content update, those who were most heavily invested in Destiny felt like Bungie’s opportunity to repair that which was then broken went missing. In their second major content update, Bungie is back with full community direction in mind, making sweeping changes to currency, items and the end-game of Destiny itself. The only question that remains now, does the attention to the community feedback actually fix Destiny’s fall-backs?
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.
So glad they started listening I'm going to have to play this again.
Its been great thus far. 2 days and i havent played everything. Lots to do.
it's too bad I paid for this when I bought the game...I have no desire to ever give this another chance after quitting the game for the 2nd time since it's release...
Destiny's definitely Bungie at its best for fan feedback. A smooth alpha, a smooth beta, and a smoother game launch all made for the smoothest FPS co-op experience ever. Destiny doesn't even need a sequel if this is how good the main game can still be.
No HoW doesn't fix Destiny. If anything it just moved the problems around. The got rid of Ascended and Raidant materials and replaced it with Armor cores, weapon cores and Etheic light. Armor and weapon cores can only be gotten from 1 place, Prison of Elders. You have to do the lvl 33 and 34 to get them. Etheic light comes from nightfall, Prison and Trails of Osiris. Problem is it drops less frequently then exotics used to in VoG. I did three nightfalls and the Prison several times over the last few days and got exotics I already have everytime. I've got hundreds of shards and energy of both types