The dust has settled from an astonishing E3 week. To finish off the biggest week of the gaming year, lucky gamers around the world were treated with 3 glorious days of the Destiny Alpha. Destiny has arguably been the most anticipated game since E3 2013. The momentum has never declined and the team at Bungie began the Sony conference with Destiny as the opening cinematic. The show ended with an Incendiary Grenade (Hunter Class) type bang as the Destiny Alpha was announced beginning on Thursday, 12 June.
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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You missed the top draw, the game ran smoothly and with no lag. This thing basically put Battlefield Hardpoint Beta to SHAME for running so bad, and lots of other games run worse than this "alpha" did. If Bungie puts this much attention into the playability, the release version will do well.
1. That it didn't last long enough =(
this game is most def a GOTY contender, I wouldnt be surprised if it actually won. OT: having a blast playing the alpha, too bad the lvl is capped at 8, wanted to try out a lot of the cool gear i got :(