Of course people will.
They stuck around after the shitshow these forums were during D1.
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Edited by Jarac Rassen: 10/17/2017 5:07:32 PM[quote]Of course people will. They stuck around after the shitshow these forums were during D1.[/quote] Yup, I remember that. I left after finishing HoW, because it disgusted me how greedy Bungie was getting. The last straw was "you'll throw money at the screen" when talking about emotes in the run-up to the Taken King. People still defended him and bought the DLC and silver. I can't hate Luke Smith, because even when people complained about him, they still threw money at the screen. Only reason why I am coming back is because my friend convinced me to get it on PC, and I had birthday money to buy the base game with, so no actual money of mine spent.
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Edited by woeful: 10/16/2017 11:15:12 PMIf people stick around the way they did for Destiny 1 then there probablly won't be a Destiny 3 and the Destiny 2 DLC and updates will likely become anemic after the second 'obligated' DLC pack is released. You may love Destiny 1 or just liked it enough to stick around, but far less then 50% of the customer's who bought Destiny 1 every completed the first Raid. I think the actual number was less then 20%, but I don't remember for sure. That is an abysmal of players experiencing the 'end game' for any kind game that involves a long term player base stratagem to fund ongoing maintenance and development. The idea is 'Most' not just 'Some' players will 'come back' and 'pay' for DLC. If that is not happening, well no publisher is going to fund the cost of ongoing Triple A development for a game that does not retain block buster customer base numbers (based on DLC sales, not daily active player counts). It is about 'Money' in the end because these guys don't make these game for Free. To be clear, these guys have real live and bills to pay, and they deserve to get paid for their time. However, investors only do so much on 'Faith' and it is clear by the 'Casual Gamer' focus of this game that Bungie and Activision's view of Destiny 1 was that is was at least a 'Partial Failure'. 1 games financial failure for a 'well known entity' like Bungie can be forgiven and recover from... 2 is a lot less likely.
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Neither Destiny 1 nor Destiny 2 nor any of the expansions were a financial failure. If you think any of it was, then you're simply misinformed. The last expansion to Destiny 1, Rise of Iron, made more money in it's initial launch month than Destiny 1 itself made. https://gamerant.com/destiny-rise-iron-launch-month-sales/ Destiny 2 has had the highest one day sales ever on the PS store. https://www.thumbsticks.com/destiny-2-playstation-store-sales-09182017/ Where's this financial failure you're trying to grasp?
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Yes physical copies. Digital sales are up from D1. Not to mention D1 released for 4 systems, D2 has only released for 2.
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Why would they drop the price if the game was meeting their expectation?
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Edited by woeful: 10/17/2017 2:08:25 AMYou are thinking in terms of did the game sales cover development costs and you are focusing only on digital sales. More digital sales from less overall sales does not equal good revenue growth. That is definitely not how publishers/investors think. Destiny's revenue when compared to other ceaper to make and maintain games with 'proven' growth models like COD franchise with launch revenue typically over 1 billion ++ is not good. So, lets just talk digital sales. You might be tempted to think all that revenue was from DLC.... but no, it would include things like microtransactions.... the industry's new money tree. So 500 mill in digital sales sounds good right. I mean all the 100's of developers salaries, office costs, testing equipment, and marketing expenses can't cost that much... Right? But lets say all costs are covered with 400 mill in profits. You and I might say... wow thats alot of profit.... But investors look at total profit margins compared to other 'similar' competitors in the industry... of which games like COD are considered.... So if COD is cheaper to make, has greater initial sales, greater DLC sales, and greater microtransaction revenue.... where do you think they will invest?.... Destiny 3 or COD X?
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Not everyone. Wink* wink*