“Beneath Venus, evil stirs.”
The Director is light on details for the Raid in Destiny. This is by design. The most elaborate mission ever created by Bungie is a mystery as much as it is a challenge – a puzzle and a gauntlet. The race to see who can be first to solve it - with their cunning and their skill - is about to begin.
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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New missions already. Cool
I'm sure many review sites are waiting to include the raid content. This should be a big selling point if it is epic. So far melee, and sci fi abilities border epicness, but the game as a whole is so so.
I'm not gonna be able to do this! No matchmaking! Argh
This is cool and all but the fact that there is no matchmaking for it and you can no longer get a piece of legendary equipment from this raid once you've aquired your first piece ruins it. I really don't understand the logic behind that.
I can not wait to give the Raid a shot. I am stuck at level 23 right now but a lot of my clan mates are getting close to level 26. Hopefully soon I will be there too. I am loving that they are staggering the release of stuff and that not all the things they want to release are limited to the Expansion packs. I get that some people are not happy. But I have to wonder if the reviews and people who hate it are too used to games that have a short campaign with a large focus on the MP or something that can be played through quickly only to move on to the next big game. Bungie has stated they want to support this game and franchise over a large span of time and that means it can grow well beyond what we have right now. Even as I hit higher levels I am still seeing new things to do and the way even story missions and strikes get modified across the higher levels are insane. I can't imagine what the raids and future missions will be like but hopefully Bungie will listen to the community about what we want to see. I for one plan on sticking around for the long haul though and seeing just what Bungie does do with the game.