Digitally Downloaded writes: "It's looking like it could be entirely possible that in the promotion of the game, Activision allowed people to get their expectations up too much. With numbers such as $500 million being bandied about, people expected to be blown away from the very first moment, and this is simply not happening."
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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When I first heard about Destiny I was hyped because this is the game I always wanted to play. At least from what I heard and what had been said by the developers and PRs.
Then I played the beta. First it was quite a lot of fun. The gameplay mechanics were refined, graphic was lovely and no framerate issue at all. But after a few hours of playing I got bored. There was almost no story. OK, it's a beta. This is what I said to myself. But the whole game for me felt like a MP shooter with different maps and some sort of solo campaign that animates you to make fire teams, meet other gamers and fight the good fight.
Somehow I imagined a open world RPG Shooter with NPCs and other gamers to interact with (if you want), a really big map to explore filled with gamers, enemies and maybe some sort of other life. I mean Destiny plays on a more than one freaking whole planet. The map would've seen endless.
I wanted to pre-order this game but I didn't.
Bottom line: If I want to play a great Story RPG shooter, I play a game like Fallout 3. If I want to play a loot/RPG I play Borderlands. Destiny is a bit of everything but that is a problem. Because I am missing that thing that makes this game special.
Yup
Not our fault though, it's Bungies, the game was announced way to early, the same happened to WatchDogs.
It's certainly not a masterpiece.
From what I've played, it's good, decent fun with friends (with friends, however). This is not a game you want to play alone. The story is lacking and the missions do become repetitive as there really isn't any sort of variety with the missions.
So far, I'd give it around 8/10.
Only problem is that the content is going to run out and quick. Yesterday middle of day i saw people streaming that were close to max level already. Only one raid, so really after you do that what will there be to do other then the same stuff over and over. Im gonna go ahead and say that this game will die out much sooner than anyone expected. This game could be a huge disappointment.
It's a possibility seeing as how they praised it like the next coming . Worst case it does happen they deal with it, learn and move. As for me am going to give my friends crap for praising it like school girls. Lol
@ironmonkey that's if this one meets Activision numbers , cause the next one if their is one will be scrutinized by Activision .