DeeJ:
This week at Bungie, we launched the second stage of the Destiny Beta. Anyone who wants to play is welcome. There’s no code required. Your invitation can be found on your platform of choice. Fire up your console, and get busy downloading.
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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I'm conflicted. On one hand, I enjoy the sarcastic emblem, but on the other hand, I was hoping for something really special or at least something that I could wear in addition to the CE stuff. =\
I'm just glad that the moon story is opening up. Something new to explore.
Been playing a few hours. My expectation were low so I wasn't hyped but my expectation weren't even met as low as they were. But now when I compare it to halo it is a lot better 1. they finally have modern graphics(the halo games were a tad behind) 2: it's an rpg. But in saying that the rpg elements are not great, the open world feels linear, but it is a step over halo even with those things.
Things that would have made it great: split screen, some type of space travel(control spaceship to other planets), more options, more unique weapons. All in all in feels like borderlands without it's charm and instead a slap of halo which in my opinion makes it worst then borderlands especially if I a next gen version comes out
Here to cheers to bungee on their first rpg but they still have plenty to learn. If they learn and make a destiny 2 I might give it a buy. But until then this one can definitely pass
Not surprisingly the combat is excellent but mandatory online only aspect rules me out. Shame as I would have very much bought into this even for just a single player experience
The beta gets old quickly. Very linear