"These improvements, if implemented, would eliminate some of the drearier routines to get you back into the game sooner."
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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I like some of these suggestions. I would add that they need to show your faction and crucible rank and progress on the character screen. Huge oversight IMO.
My suggestions....
-have it so you can go to orbit or go to tower instead of just orbit.
- add some type of map for when on the planet itself.
- add what above said.
- change Peter's ghost voice to Nathan Fillion's voice ( he actually is a sci fy icon and IMO is the white version of Morgan freeman he gets you to listen to everything he says on the edge of you're seat. He can sell any story and believablely funny when needed ) he's already in the game so can't see why it can't be done because Peter is horribly unbelievable and makes me want to go on a baby punching spree.
-add a general store in the tower that allows you to buy/sell items specifically crafting materials included ascended energy/shards Aswell as allowing bloom or strange coins/mote of light as payment. Maybe add a trading feature within the store.
- add a area where guardians can go to meet people that can help them with missions. Designated virtual co op lobby.
-allow guardians to trade gear that isn't for their class.
-give npc's the ability to be questioned about commonly wanted info.
-include story missions that somehow explain to us who and where are enemies are from example cobal, fallen, hive, vex, and how come we can't steal they're ship technology to travel to their Galaxy.
-make bounties patrol missions more diverse.
- add space warfare ( star citizen like ) for missions in the reef. Add tanks/space ships in matchmaking.
-add more planets possibly the andromeda Galaxy with the inclusion of the super earth planet that is 3 times bigger than earth and could could contain life. I'm sick of the Milky Way Galaxy I want to see some crazy creative feats with other galaxy's. An ice planet would be cool maybe jupiters moon Titan with its methane oily water and earth like landscape.
-access to the actual city and people us guardians are putting lives on the line for. I want motivation for protecting them for helping the traveller.
-basically give me a damn story for f sakes Bungie. So much damn potential being wasted.
-add raid matchmaking with mandatory mic support. Even though we will prob fail let us try atleast.
-fix how anti social the game feels.
-fix how predictable the events are.
-did I mention give our enemy an identity for F's sakes. We've been fighting them long enough we should know more about them by know unless the humans in destiny are clearly as stupid and useless as the seem.
- change the entire game
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I agree with a few of these points. Here's some very minor improvements I think would make it slightly better.
-No 3 second countdown when selecting destination.
-Hold triggers when in orbit to go straight to tower.
-Other people have mentioned a choice to go back tower instead of orbit from a mission which is cool.
- load sparrow by holding select button, in multiplayer (this would help flow as it feels odd wasting a few seconds for a device to get you somewhere saving time)