The Bungie-developed sci-fi title Destiny was the top-selling game in the U.S. in September based upon physical retail sales of the game. Adding in digitally-downloaded copies of the game, which released Sept. 9, estimated sales of Destiny sit at $325 million. That ranks the game in the top 10 all-time for new video game launches in U. S. history.
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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Not bad Destiny, not bad at all. Though I feel it is undeserved. Don't get me wrong, I have and enjoy the game. I just feel it should have been so much more.
Though speaking on that. I have hope for the future of this game, and plan on keeping a close eye on it. Especially with the first expansion coming out in December.
Yeah the wool they used is bigger than most cities, pulled right over so many people's eyes!
And sold most physical copies on X1.
All I'm gonna say is thank you 343 for staying with Halo when Bungie felt like they had to move on and make other games. And thank you Bungie for letting 343 continue a great franchise.
Impressive, I wonder if it includes the disc versions includes with The PS4 and X1 console bundles