Nerdacy: "Let's be honest here, we were all downright excited for Destiny. I am thoroughly enjoying my time with the game, but it does have its issues. Some are menial and can be overlooked, but others just make me question why wasn't this particular thing added or done. So, here are the five things that annoy us about Destiny and then another 5 things that we actually love about the game."
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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What I hate is the enormous amount of health they gave to some bosses. And ugh dont get me started about enemy shields..
Deploy the dink.. I like it. Another fine set of bullet-points on the pros/cons. Personally, I've got an external HDD on my XB1 (usb 3.0, 7200rpm) and the load times really aren't bad at all. I did notice on my ps4 that they were longer, but I haven't done a SSD upgrade yet so that's my own fault. (Yes I own both consoles, and yes I own Destiny on both)
I find it entertaining that Bungie doesn't 'understand' why people complain about the game size and only having 4 'open areas'. The problem is that those open areas are just that.. open.. empty.. lifeless. I did a mission on Mars yesterday and had to ride my speeder for long intervals to get to the objective and remember thinking .. 'wow this looks amazingly like the moon'. Would like to see something new and unique like a frozen pluto, or a fiery lava field on Io (Jupiter's volcanic moon).
But then I'm no game developer with 500 million at my disposal.. so it's easy for me to say.