Nathan talks to Bungie's Luke Timmins about Destiny: The Taken King and why it's the biggest expansion yet.
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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This "big" expansion sounds like what the other 2 should have been
LOL @ the vault space question. I literally handle my vault like a puzzle. "Ok, if I put this weapon here, and take this weapon out, then put this one on my Titan and this one on my Hunter, maybe I can fit this one in and move it to my Warlock." The vault should have endless space in my opinion. What's the point of getting all these cool weapons only to have to dismantle some because of vault space??? And sure, you won't ever use all of them, but maybe you will with the new etheric light system. I've been upgrading weapons that I know I'll never use, but then again, if there's a buff to certain weapons, maybe I'll start using those again *cough cough, auto rifles, cough cough*
Well after the other two expansions, calling this the "biggest expansion yet" doesn't really say much. HoW was certainly a huge step in the right direction but by "expansion" standards, it's still very small when you compare it to what other companies refer to as expansions.