Destiny: The Dark Below, despite being a solid collection of new content, lacks the heart and soul that other expansions from similar games have.
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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true that
I cant go to n4g without having an article about how "bad" Destiny is. Haters cant get passed the fact that Destiny is a good game, not a great one, but people still like and they still playing it in a daily basis. I guess everything that is popular must have a good amount of haters, including videogames.
On topic. I've enjoyed the dlc content, but it does have its flaws. At the end I ended up wanting more, but thats usually a good sign. In the passed 3 days I've put in around 12 hours trying to complete the bounties, playing crucible in the new maps, and passing the weekly and nightfall with all three of my guardians. That is more time than most other 60 dollar games will se from me.
Overpriced. Should've been $15 at the MOST.
If this is an expansion...a Snickers bar is a protein bar.
I've only played iron banner in the last month and a half. After 1 hour with the new content, I turned it off. I can't subject myself to the same missions over and over, just to level up new weapon/armor. Once my new gear is leveled then what? Doing the same raid over for better gear, but then what? Yeah, now I'm fully leveled with the best gear so I can run the raid a whole hour faster.