Long time Destiny player David Game has enjoyed a love-hate relationship with Destiny but The Taken King has really taken him buy surprise in how different it has made the game for the better.
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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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It was going to be that until they decided to take content out to make it DLC, which you can tell because the levels were locked out. When Destiny cane out I loved he mechanics but the lack of context and content killed it for me (as well as the dlc money grab). I sold my ps4 and bought the white one (which I've been trying to get since last year) and it brought the Taken King. I'm enjoying the game without having bought any of the expansions.
for the low-low price of $150!
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150 bucks for the game "it should have been" isn't full price. it's wallet rape.
I'm pretty mad that they are holding it hostage. You can either but Taken King and it comes with Destiny, Crota, HOW (which is a good deal for new comers) but if you have only Destiny and Crota (or HOW) and are missing the other expansion, YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO PLAY. That's totally unfair that they are basically forcing me to double dip if I want it because House of Wolves came with no content and is 20 bucks which I don't want to pay to not get much....
Terrible pricing system, locking people out...just unlock the worthless content and allow me to give you money for the expansion that I want to buy because it comes with enough stuff to justify the purchase.
The more I think of it the more I realize this is a F2P game with a price tag.
In Warframe almost all the stuff weapons, accesories, Tennos you can get with only playing the game(repeating and repeating missions) or you can get those a lot faster by paying for them, needs lots grinding.
In Destiny you need to play a hell a lot(repeating and repeating missions) of the game just to get your desire weapon or armor, but it doesn't give you the option to buy that weapon or armor separately, I think this is the only difference between the both but in Destiny is less rewarding and annoying.
I just lost interest when all of the good content was locked behind needing a pre-made group. With no in-game party board I was like meh.