In a not so surprise move the gaming public finds out that all of the Rise of the Tomb Raider frenzy might all be lies... in less than a 24 hr span since the announcement. Why can't gamers just be told the truth from the start?
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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Zero Dawn sold really well so I’m not sure this belongs. The second game released next to a big game again and it hurt it some I forget what it was though, oh yeah Elden Ring .
But a good game is a good game to me I don’t care when they release personally but they do have to think about it when you want to get more people to buy it.
What they hope to achieve seems obvious. Sales of their console caused by the belief that some game or games can only be played on it.
Not sure why the title is Console Manufacturers, Sony was very upfront about what was and what was not only on PS. Nintendo makes it pretty clear as well.
That is how Microsoft works, they twist the words up so much that every fanboy thought that tomb raider was lifetime exclusive so they can get more sells, they try to play gamers like we are stupid and guess what reading most of the comments here at N4g, i think that most are. Right when they announced it i knew it was timed just look at my post history, i was spamming the every article with the same post that it was timed.
The give away was the wording on the trailers every lifetime exclusive for xbox said at the end of their trailers that it was "ONLY FOR XBOX" where as tomb raider said " EXCLUSIVE LY ON XBOX HOLIDAY 2015" biggest giveaway and no one noticed it.
Microsoft is dirty the way they PR their talk and not just straight up telling people the truth, like SONY. SONY was very clear to tell us what was lifetime exclusive and what was timed exclusive.
..... They said exclusive for Holiday 2015. Everything else they said on Xbox first, or first to console on XBone. Even after those announcements, Harrison said all games shown from here on out are exclusive to Xbox.
What was so hard to understand?
Sony did a good job, as others have stated, making sure people understood because they didn't want the same problems they had after E3. I'm sure after this Rise of The Tomb Raider incident, Microsoft will do the same.
Playing semantics with the word exclusive is what fanboys do to justify their console of choice and it's what unscrupulous executives and developers do to sell games and consoles. I will not participate in this nonsense indirectly by buying the Tomb Raider game. All the complaining in the world won't do anything to change the situation, just let your wallets do the talking for you.