Destiny "probably one of biggest investments in new IP ever in industry"
Activision has high hopes for the potential of Bungie’s Destiny. In an interview with IGN, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg explained that Activision has put a significant amount of money into making sure the franchise will thrive once it launches in 2014.
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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Playing Destiny 1 on PC has been something fans have been requesting for years. It looks like Destiny 1 is now playable on PC via the RPCS3 emulator.
I'm sure it is. The game looks gorgeous. Putting it on other platforms should bring in a lot of money, hopefully... Anyways, I'm sure it will do well. It's like Halo and Borderlands had a child, and it looks awesome.
activation, you have PLENTY of money -_- good to know you're putting it to good use
Ps4 destiny count me in!!!!!
I really hope they can spit some more money out for a PC release.
this game has def peaked my interest since E3
looking forward to seeing competitive multiplayer running on PS4.
Destiny is definitely looking like a must buy