Destiny borrows elements from the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft and Bungie’s previous first-person shooter series Halo, but it becomes something much more.
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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How Destiny compares to WoW...it doesnt.
This game is damn perfect.
Cant compare this to WoW at all. It is if anything a incredible stripped down MMO experience.
You cant compare this game with it's relative small instances to a massive open world game. And on top of that a game like WoW can have up to hundreds of players in one area.
Destiny can have 10?
from the beta is not ready for halo or wow. is fun and addictive like tf but is missing something that halo and mw4 had
This game looks ok and everything but their 10 year plan for it is a bit optimistic i think. Are people really going to be playing this in 2 years? let alone 10. Even if the content patches or expansions were free I very much doubt its going to be popular for the amount of time they are planning.