After the disappointment that was Destiny‘s story, design, and overall gameplay, many had lost hope for this new Bungie. When Bungie broke off from Microsoft, they did so with the hope to become something different than just “that developer that makes Halo.” While not a bad thing, after developing games for the same franchise since 2001, things can get a little tiring. With that move, we saw Bungie tie the knot with Activision, and the Destiny franchise was born. We all saw what Destiny was trying to be, but unfortunately, by whatever strange confusion during development, it appeared as though someone had forgotten to hire any writers or game designers.
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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Destiny a year ago the game that we all play for days or months we were just playing a damn unfinished product, this Taken King DLC is actually the final product of what Destiny should be a year ago. Just look what Bungie did with the games title screen it went and put The taking king on the title, past DLCs didn't affect at all the design of the UI menus.
In the end people who went back to Destiny and bought the Taken King they actually pay Bungie/Activision 140 dlls for just one damn game just to let you know.
I will say that first mission in the new expansion reminded me a LOT of the first levels of Halo 2 and Halo 3.
What I am not understanding is how everyone is giving this game a pass on the 95 bucks you spent to finance the real game and Bungie is charging you 40 more so you can play it.
I personally just can't put more money into this game. The early adopters should be getting this DLC for free for putting up with the BETA and giving them all the feedback that allowed them to create this new DLC.
Are the people forgetting that we knew that destiny was basically an FPS MMO since it's inception?
since the release of TTK, destiny no longer is considered a Beta.
yeh!! for paid Beta