SelectButton: "Destiny is an incredibly difficult game to review for a variety of reasons. Currently there is no true endgame, although Bungie has opened up the first 6-player raid, expanding upon the content at release."
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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Beginning of the end.
"Hitting 20 is just the beginning" Yeah the beginning of going through everything you've already done multiple times in a boring repetitive grind. In fact, after you reach 20 with the exception of improved difficulty, the only new thing to actually explore is VoG.
Argh I am finally level 27 and have gold/legendary gear. But damn it if it's not the hardest grind to find ascendant shards and energy's.
I love the game but now it's turning into an Animal Crossing game for me. There's no real quick/simple way to level up your character once you hit 25/26. It's becoming a daily chore/task to go and do the daily challenge for a shard, then go farm for helium or spirit blooms or relic shards... all that JUST to be a higher level.
Frustrating that doing strikes, bounties, and queens tasks doesn't really do anything for your level past a certain point. Tired of the same 2 pieces of gear from the queen, I am tired of defeating Sepiks Prime on Earth, tired of having to farm to level up as opposed to beating things in the game.
Give me a shard or energy every time I do anything so I don't have to hope for 2 maybe 3 a day.
it was the end for me. i get no urge to grind in destiny. thats just me though. i'll grind on world of warcraft for some reason, just don't get that sense of accomplishment from destiny.
Would you people who keep saying it is a repetitive grind, please tell me what shooter you guys are playing that after the first 10, 15, 20 hours of playing the game.... you aren't doing the same thing over and over and over?
Please, I'd really like to know what shooter has dozens and dozens of hours of new and fresh content.