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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Activisions earnings show that 47% of their revenue comes from base sales and 53% comes from subscription services (microtransactions). Does anybody really think they are going to rid or tone down the higgest earning portion of their business? Listen, I hate how eververse has been woven throughout D2 as the main focal point. If they focused more attention, effort and resources on building a sound quality game then they have with there micro-store then eververse would hardly be an issue. Along with the poor execution and poor decisions they made have had a tremendous impact on player morale. If I could hop on D2 and truly feel like I got a gamers game or the Destiny we always thought we were gonna get while having fun, feeling challenged and having good desirable rewards that I could earn by playing then I would care less about eververse. But thats exactly where Bungie went wrong and have brought all this negative attention upon themselves. This is merely an issue because D2 as a whole feels very incomplete especially from where D1 ended off and all the functionalities we grew fond of. Their execution was all wrong and the decision making behind many changes and concepts in the game have only compounded the issue. Let's be real, Eververse is staying but if Bungie can figure out a way to incorporate it without crossing the line or alienating the quality of the game and actually build up the game to a healthy spot then it would be much less bothersome.