Polygon: Destiny has been keeping me up at night.
The game is deeply flawed, and the Polygon review lists all the places it stumbles much better than I ever could, but I still find myself locked into the world's almost impersonal embrace way after the game's charms should have worn off.
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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Oh its Polygon. Yeeaaaahhh, I'm not clicking that link.
Polygon - i used to be indecisive... but now I'm not so sure!
Destiny the game that came out at the right time. That's how I see Destiny. Bungie and Activision have capitalized on the fact that there really is little else competing with with Destiny. So even though it has flaws a plenty, it does enough right to get many to play and keep playing since really the alternatives for new and shinny is non-existent.
people bought into the reviews. the biggest sites were the ones giving it the worst scores. its very telling. Bungie did not allow them to review it until the game was released. people don't know that there is a lot of politics behind the scenes of the critics and the revuew scores. Money changes hands and reviews are made. Bungie/Activision believed that with the hype Destiny had before launch they could bypass the critics and save costs of paying these sites off to "review" their game. The sites on the other hand wanted to make an example of Destiny so no one would dare go against their cartel. Its a dangerous idea for them, and they need to squash it quickly before others follow suit. Thats why the biggest sites scored it lowest. What Bungie/Activision were hoping was to allow review scores only after the game was released, that way, the critics would fear that if they score too low, they would attract the wrath of the gamers/fans who would demand why the site has scored the game such a low score. but since the sites came that hard and in unison, Bungie/Activision's plan backfired and the critics won this round. Now, we have two groups of gamers: first, the sheep, these are the people who either out of bias (one console over another) or just because they can't make a decision for themselves and need the critics to tell them if the game is any good, are jumping on the bandwagon that the game sucks. second, you have the people who are playing the game on their own, and can clearly see that the game is a solid, and fun game (that being subjective of course).
Personally, I'm enjoying the heck out of Destiny playing on hard. its one of the funnest games I've played in a long time. (its a bit reminiscent of Halo of course). I'm just sitting here in awe of the audacity of the gaming sites giving it 6s. and really doubting the whole review score mechanisms. Gaming sites have lost a lot of credibility with me...
This article sums up almost perfectly (although without saying it) why review scores are worthless. Just say, "play it" or" don't play it" ... 6/10 makes it sound like a piece of shit when it's not. In fact it's the only game this gen that has me and all my friends playing together every night for hours on end.