Dee J:
This week at Bungie, we created Guardians that will never die.
We’ve lost count of how many brave heroes we’ve nurtured down the path from inception to legend, only to lose them to a new build of Destiny. The Hunters, Titans, and Warlocks that we’re playing as now will endure. They just need some more company in the Tower – and out in the wild.
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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In Episode 1 of Spot On, a new weekly news show, Gamespot talks about the dangers of chasing a trend.
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.
This is exactly what I reasoned three days ago but got 8 disagrees. Lol.
http://n4g.com/news/1577602...
"Like I mentioned to someone else recently. I'd just chalk it up to the fact that they're afraid of letting a few people online to review it when it really needs everyone online to get the full feel of it. I don't blame them. I wouldn't want someone reviewing my game if it was almost completely empty. The social aspect is too strong with this one to be reviewed any other way."
@aconnellan- Exactly! You know a few reviewers would have said that too. If not something worse. Haha
Or maybe they just don't want corrupt journalists to review their game. Hahaha!
only 4 more days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, well more like 3 now ,since this day is almost over!!!!
Makes sense.. If you can afford it support it regardless of reviews, it is a very good developer so chances are you will like it.. If not... Well it's not the end of the world so just trade it back in that is what most of you like to do anyway right?
We’re okay with that. We’ve created something we’re proud of.”
Sounds like they're totally hiding something.... I get it's all just speak and no real facts but they're reasoning seems solid to me.
"“We explored several options to populate the world for reviewers. Our team estimates it would take thousands of gamers to ensure each potential public space in Destiny would be populated – that every activity would be accessible at all hours of the day and night. Where on Earth would we be able to find thousands of gamers? The answer, again, is you.”
That's not hard to argue in my opinion especially for an online only game that relies on some interaction with other people. If the game is reviewed when the servers aren't populated and the reviewer says it felt empty, they could lose a sale for someone who wanted a more populated environment.