CraveOnline: "Destiny has received a middling critical reception since it released, with its scores falling well below the high level of expectation developer Bungie had for the entry point of its first new video game series since Halo. There has also been no small degree of debate regarding the validity of the reviews posted within the two weeks following Destiny‘s launch, due to Bungie previously stating that it foresees the game having a 10-year lifespan, therefore apparently making the mostly negative reviews posted by the likes of GameSpot, Polygon and this very website redundant."
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 think any company faced with negative review scores is going to defend themselves. I mean, who bought Destiny without knowing what they were getting into?
It's just like this: All Destiny did was emulate the generic rpg experience but with a twist of borderlands. Not that it's bad, but the grinding is absolutely tiresome. Doing the same thing OVER and OVER again that you'd rather play a different game. Sure it will have additional features in the future but Bungie should have not made the first product as stale as it is since that would be the very basis of the reviews of the game which will be regarded by the general public despite the additional improvements in the future.
Amen
Well to dissect the 11 hour raid comment, it was a first run in a new raid released earlier that day. They had to figure out the puzzle, and develop tactics in an area nobody had cleared. Also, 11 hours is a long time, but by no means does anyone need to sit and do this in one session. 11 hours over 7 days is not a ton of time.. many people have played that much in a few days let alone an entire week. This was the same in WoW, someone had to figure out the tactics before everyone was able to do raids regularly. As time passes I expect that runtime will shorten up a bit.
But yes the loot system is frustrating, and the story is very bland... I'm frustrated by having to grind trash mobs for loot and never seeing boss mobs drop anything.
This is the face of Destiny. Don't bother doing strikes, raids, PVP or anything else. Go to Skywatch and you'll see 2-3 level 20+ standing still, shooting lvl 5 mobs inside a cave for hours on end. The loot here is good that doing anything else is a waste of time. The funny thing is that this is just one farming spot, there are many many ways to get gear solo.
Awesome end game Bungie! Good thing they committed half a billion dollars to this game or else repetitive cave farming experiences such as this wouldn't be possible.