Yesterday Bungie released patch 1.0.2 for Destiny, sensibly improving the loot system by removing or mitigating some of the most annoying random elements.
Most actually expected the developer to ruthlessly nerf the second “loot cave” (which is actually a “loot doorway”), like they did with the first, legendary one, especially considering that with the new engram rules farming becomes even more profitable.
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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was anyone actually expecting it? didn't the list the caves they were nerfing last time so why would it be different?
Im glad they patched in the new looting system to make it better. what they need to do now is make it so that the better you do in the crucible is correlated with what level of loot you get.
I agree bud. Crucible should have better rewards. Lots of times I'm top of my team and I don't get a reward
Haha losers still trying to exploit games... I can't wait until AI gets to at least near human level intelligence... I truly hate these no life nerds