Many of you have your heart in the right place and believe these multi million dollar companies need to add new revenue streams to survive modern game development, but the numbers just don't fit that narrative.
Let's look at some numbers shall we?
Destiny 2's publisher's (Activision) total assets are worth $17.452 billion.
https://www.forbes.com/companies/activision-blizzard/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2017/2/9/14568722/activision-blizzard-2016-earnings-record
Not sure what Destiny 2's developer (Bungie) is worth, but just their website is estimated to be worth 91,000,000.
https://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/bungie.net/
The lowest paid Bungie software designer makes $80,000.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Bungie-Salaries-E284423.htm
Hell Bobby Kotick (Activision's CEO) is worth $2,000,000,000 by himself. How many engrams you think he's bought?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2013/4/26/4272696/activision-bobby-kotick-highest-paid-ceos-65-million-salary
This company doesn't need Eververse to feed themselves. It's purely greed.
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You have to understand that Eververse is a bad concept for the consumer. Seriously, regardless that many of you defend it by saying "it is only cosmetic" and "you don't have to buy stuff" and "it makes no difference to the game" or better yet "And this concerns you why?" is a weak defense and the brain dead mentality Bungie wants. The nicer and better items they are creating for eververse could have been content in the RNG for the players in game. This would have eliminated they constant repetitive items you get by having more items in it to begin with. Instead they decided to squeeze people for just a little more money. Bungie stayed in a nice grey area and avoided what SWBF had to go through with loot crates. Many of you will sing a different tune when eververse adds weapons and other actual useful items in it's stock. Then it will truly be a full fledged pay to win game. Imagine you are in PVP and getting your butt handed to you by some newbie with weapons and gear that they bought in eververse. You "defenders" of eververse will be the first to cry about it then. Just watch. It's coming.