The Koalition's Richard Bailey writes:
"On September 9th, Bungie and Activision will be teaming up to release arguably one of the most anticipated titles of the year. Destiny is not only poised to break sales figures, but it is also expected to set a standard for new IPs on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
As the release clock slowly winds down, we decided to express our personal thoughts on why Destiny is the biggest game of the year. Please feel free to read over our opinions and let us know what you all think of Destiny below:"
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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It's a bold statement to make, but I truly believe this is the biggest game of the year, and I think it's got game of the year written all over it.
Without a doubt this will be THE biggest game of the year? What else is even capable of touching it. Destiny is going to murder every other game out there.
It'll be the biggest something...
This, Advanced Warfare & Evil Within will all be huge, for me anyway.
It will be the biggest, but thats because theres not much coming out this year