GP: Holiday Season 2014 is just around the corner, and we have some great games lined up to arrive on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and last-gen consoles, but in this feature article I won't be talking about what's coming in next three to four months, rather I would take a look back and see what has really happened in the past eight months. There are few games which were expected to be "Next Big Thing" in that particular genre but failed to deliver on all the promises. This feature is about three Overhyped new AAA IPs of 2014 which failed to delivered.
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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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In Episode 1 of Spot On, a new weekly news show, Gamespot talks about the dangers of chasing a trend.
I think once these so called "Next Gen" games start appearing in the older consoles the promises will be met. Next year should be a better year.
Titanfall - Okay
WATCH_DOGS - Good, but not great.
Destiny - Above average
These games may have been over-hyped, but this is what happens when games are heavily marketed. People need to keep leveled expectations.
Stop listening to hype. Problem solved.
the only thing the publishers care about is money and revenue and all 3 of these games have made their publishers hundreds of millions of dollars and that is success for them.
im guessing those that disagree are bad at math.
titanfall - 2million sales
watchdogs - 4million
destiny - 2.4 million
$60 x 2,000,000 = $120million minimum, sorry you hate math, but im right.
Why does everyone keep forcing Titanfall in all the time? No one can talk about Destiny without trying to bring down Titanfall. Can't Destiny stink on its own? Titanfall got an 86 on metacritic and amazing reviews across the board. It did exactly what it promised perfectly. Watch Dogs and Destiny did not.