Destiny is a game that will evolve over ten years - and players will be pleased to know that their Guardians will be with them until the end. There will be no need to switch characters between expansions or the inevitable sequel-style updates that will come over the coming decade.
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.
Really? Pretty sure mines on a shelf at EBGames
That's neat. I plan on buying the game when i get my PS4.
Cool I guess, will dust off my guardians when this game becomes interesting again.
I doubt my guardians will be leaving the 1st game, especially after buying the season pass and now being told I need to pay extra to get the next DLC (Which, btw, is more than I actually paid for the base game!). The lack of base content and effectively hiding content behind the DLC paywall has left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Annoyingly I did enjoy the game to start with, now it just collects dust on my virtual shelf lol
Yea 10 seasons worth of paying for probably what amounts to two regular games content.
Still waiting for matchmaking. I'm not using a 3rd party website, when the game clearly has matchmaking. What an idiotic 'design decision'. No reason you can't initiate it with friends OR use matchmaking. It's not like they don't have matchmaking code in the game.
The other question is, with all the nerfs to the weapons you grind to get, and grind to get materials for, and grind to upgrade, what is the point? Anything good will be nerfed.
So much wrong with this game... and it's sad, it had promise, but they screwed it up, and continue to.
But there will be people who will jump through all the arbitrary hoops, and pay $500-1200 for 10 years worth content...which again, will probably amount to two...maybe three regular games' content.
I would say to each their own, but that's just plain highway robbery, so that saying doesn't really apply.