Bungie nerfed the second “Loot Cave” in Destiny with yesterday’s hotfix, and maybe someone thought players would finally give up farming. Obviously, that wasn’t the case.
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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Somehow I get the feeling Destiny's story is about caves and loot.
At this point nobody would care anymore. Ever since the update I definitely get more engrams but they are always usually green even tho im level 27 so what the heck is the point when their loot system is terrible. I spent 7 hours grinding for loot on a Saturday and go no legendaries. Did various missions, various strikes and nothing so I just gave up on the game and left it at that.
I see no point in shooting in a cave to get loot.
I don't farm much anymore, since I get enough blue engrams and sometime legendary just doing missions more than I use too. If Bungie would fix their loot system, than people wouldn't do this. Destiny loot system is worst than Diablo 3 when it first came out on pc. Bungie needs to do what 2k did with bl higher level enemies drop better stuff and certain bosses drop a certain item.
Imo it was never worth it . Some People disliked grinding in missions doing actually something with friends , or even stranger , even if it's the same set of missions .... but would "love" staring at a dark hole and pits for mostly green orbs and stuff that fall the same in missions , before and after the patches . To each their kinks in guess