The Destiny alpha was loved by many (including our own Wesley Yin-Poole who played an early pre-alpha build), but there was one aspect of it that left many cold: Peter "Tyrion Lannister" Dinklage's voice acting.
Playing your robotic guide, Dinklage's lacklustre performance quickly became the subject of many internet memes: most notably for his dry reading of the wonderful line, "That wizard came from the moon." This masterpiece of prose was ridiculed so much that Bungie decided to cash in on the mockery by creating ironic T-shirts emblazoned with the line. Bungie even noted on Twitter that these were briefly the most popular item on the studio's online merch store (where it appears to be sold out).
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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That was only of the few minor faults I had with the Destiny Alpha. If they're going to update/fix that, then I think Bungie has gold on their hands.
Fair enough. I really didn't have a problem with it... The voice over was just 'there', neither good or bad.
Seems we've entered an age of nitpicking faults on pre-release software. Most people only try and get in to alpha / betas to play the game then bitch about the faults - as if the release should be perfect, rather than actually help address bugs.
We've seen as many articles about the voice over as we have about the fun game play and potentially interesting missions structures. Ridiculous.
This was one of my biggest complaints. For a voice that you are going to be hearing all the time, it was rather drab. It would be nice to be able to choose a voice but I doubt that wish will come through.
His performance lacked personality and charm. Oddly enough, if they did something to make his voice sound more mechanical or robotic like adding a filter, his voice probably would have sounded less robotic and boring. It sounded like a child speaking through mans voice.
I thought it was fine, the crucible pvp announcer needs fixing for sure