Bungie have history with Halo but may find it tough to entice pro players with its new shooter.
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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No.
Multiplayer is not really balanced or compelling enough for competitive play. From what I played the multiplayer was extremely boring and also very easy. I dropped 30 kills in my first game, it is like there is no learning curve, just hop in and play. Halo was so successful because it is extremely balanced, and had maps built for competitive play.
Destiny's biggest problem is that everyone has different grade weapons and armor even if they are the same level so it kind of ruins balance because someone will always have better equipment than you. Also, the game seems to be more about the single player/coop than competitive multiplayer
People compare it to Halo and I don't see it tbh, I feel it is closer to Cod with jetpacks and powers than Halo.
No.
They're pretty much reserved for PC games - Starcraft 1 and 2, Counter Strike, League of Legends etc.
These are the biggest games in the world, bar none. Have the highest sales and most people watching them. End of story.
"Oh but X game on console sold" just shut up.
"Well CoD does it."
Err, CoD was PC first.
why is this even being considered?
of course it isn't, very stupid article.
storymode Hell no !. Multiplayer mode hell yes. Cant wait too play with my father. He's choosing hunter and i Titan :). Can't wait until me and him having some fun. He's working all the time no time for the family, and next week he's vacation is starting, play time.