Bill Lavoy (Prima Games): With roughly two weeks of grinding in the bag, it's safe to say that we're addicted to the Rare and Legendary Engrams in Bungie’s Destiny. Of course, they never drop as quickly as we'd like, so you can imagine how pleasantly surprised we were to hear about a new loot farming location even better than the last.
After hearing stories of Legendary Engrams being dropped like third period French, we jumped in with a few friends and gave it a shot. The hype is real, as we were able to score about 30 Rare Engrams, three Legendary Engrams and nearly 20,000 Glimmer. While we'd like to tell you that was a half hour of work, it was more like two or three.
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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Every time I try farming for good stuff, I end up with crap... I'm level 24 and not a single legendary item( weapon, or armor) to speak of. I must have crap luck.
Still like the game but I've been grinding for the longest like everyone and FINALLY received a legendary engram for a lvl. 20 hunter. That would be great but I'm a lvl. 22 warlock...smh.
Maybe it's just me, but why is everyone in such a hurry?
The game has been out two weeks.
If loot drops worked the way everyone seems to think they should, we would all have 3 maxed out characters already.
Enough with the god damn articles about the farming spot. I think the first 10 got the point across.
Believe me if they ever make it easier to farm and people max to 30 everyone will start crying about how easy it was, same shit happened with Diablo.