Kotaku:
"It was an interesting weekend for Destiny. Thanks to a new exploit, players got a closer-than-usual look at how the game’s loot system works. What we’ve found is that there’s something weird going on with exotic drops."
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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I only had enough strange coins for 10 three of coins. Only got 1 exotic. Stocking up on coins this week.
I was just pissed I bought a chest engram and it gave me a stupid class item when I really, really, really needed a chest piece. I hate PVP so saving up the legendary marks was a hassle for me.
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Exploit or not, Bungie CHOSE to put the three of coin in the game, so as far as I am concerned, they CHOSE to have this happen. EVERYTHING they have done, players have looked for ways to be most efficient in they way they approach the game. They had to know something like this would happen. You can't introduce something like the three of coin and not expect your fanbase to not find a way to make it work the best for them.
This is one of the things that pushed me away from Destiny the first time. Loot cave happened because the engrams dropped way too infrequently and their players found a way to be efficient in their time. Now the drops are far more frequent, at least for blues, but we're getting the same stuff over and over. So what's the point? I mean sure, as a casual that doesn't like raids and doesn't like PVP and mostly just likes to fart around by themselves, I have gotten my light up to around 270 fairly quickly, but other than the fact that I never had a Suros Regime year 1, pretty much nothing I have feels new to me. And the Suros Regime was a joke drop too. A friend asked me to join their Nightfall at the end when I was 20 light too low just to help them have an extra revive, I got 14 kills to their over 200 each and I got the Suros and they got blues and all I could do is laugh
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That is a joke. I didn't deserve to be rewarded like that. Trust me, I appreciate it, but that is exactly what pisses people off. I got the opposite the next day. I basically play PVP just long enough to get my legendary marks and I would say I participate more than anything else but I pretty much had one of my best rounds ever, finished second on my team and we won and I was the only person that got NOTHING on the drop at the end while some people got two items.
I really want to fall in love with this game but I really feel like Bungie has the wrong priorities some times. Now that the newness of the new content is wearing off, I don't know how much longer it is going to hold my attention.