The Taken King isn’t perfect, yet it infuses new life into Destiny in such a way that this Guardian is very hopeful for the future indeed.
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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Playing Destiny 1 on PC has been something fans have been requesting for years. It looks like Destiny 1 is now playable on PC via the RPCS3 emulator.
I absolutely agree at first when I was playing this expansion I was a bit disappointed with how short the story was but I started getting into some of the NPC's quest lines and the story is so much better now there's so much more going on a lot of dialogue and it just feels a lot better actually playing the game
Do you mind that this is only for the new content as the old stuff is pretty much the exact same thing aside from better RNG and Nolan North voice
From what I see, I have to agree. For me though, it's too late. I moved on a while back. I actually liked Destiny pvp, but the meta that should have been fixed months ago, turned me off.
Good update for Destiny players though.
But this way they can get $140 for it. I stopped at $80.
It's a real shame the quality of the original game didn't match TTK. After the initial launch, for Destiny to have survived and even thrived with TTK's launch shows just how great the core gameplay mechanics really are. I honestly think if the whole Destiny experience was closer to TTK, they really would have made a COD killer.