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Edited by CitrusTheNile:
4/27/2016 5:01:08 PM
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Objective Estimates of Bungie Profits and How they are Heavily Favoring Year 2 Players
I was inspired by MerkMusic to estimate how much money Bungie has made off of Destiny. Here is what I came up with based on [url=http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=Destiny]vgchartz.com:[/url]
[b]Vanilla Destiny Total Units Sold: 12.44 million
Dollars Earned at 60 dollars/game: 746.4 million
If All players bought CE and PoE: 497.6 million
If Half of Year 1 players mouth CE and PoE: 248.8 million
Total Earnings off Vanilla Destiny: 995.2 million to 1.24 billion
TTK Total Units Sold: 3.35 million units
Dollars earned at 40 dollars/game: 134 million
Dollars earned at 5 dollars/silver addition (based on number of TTK units): 16.75 million
Dollars earned at 50 dollars/silver addition (based on number of TTK units): 167.5 million
TOTAL OVERALL: 1.129 billion to 1.378 billion (not including silver purchases)[/b]
These are rough estimates and low balling considering the conversion fiasco when selling Destiny and TTK in other countries (Australia I am, sorry).
Bungie gives the community the illusion that they are working diligently on Destiny 2 and that they have a skeleton crew still working on Destiny 1. Where has all of this money gone? Why can't you expand and hire more people to work on Destiny? Why has the game turned to shit when you have plenty of basic resources at your disposal? Why hasn't Bungie fixed their terrible game engine so they don't have to spend 8 hours moving a rock three feet?
The last point is that they are catering to Year 2 players and have completely forgot their Year 1 veterans who netted them almost 10 times the amount of revenue. There is absolutely no reason why Bungie should be catering this game to new players considering the overwhelming majority were Year 1 players considering 4 times as many units were sold in Year 1.
What Bungie is doing is unacceptable, and I hope I have shed some light on the Desticles.
EDIT: The ignorant responses to this post have missed the point entirely. I do not have access to anything that is mentioned in the comments and I am calculating a MINIMUM amount of money Bungie made off of Destiny.
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2 RepliesRetailers take 20%ish. Microsoft/Sony get a cut. Activision takes a large slice. Bungie maintains servers. Bungie has over 500 employees. Bungie has been working on Destiny for several years. Don't expect companies to break even on such huge investments. They are supposed to make money. I am well aware Bungie is probably holding back a little to make some extra profit. That's their business. I am extremely satisfied with the products they've delivered thus far. This isn't some subpar shit-tier game like Evolve or barebones game like Titanfall. As far as investing in Destiny 2 as opposed to the current game goes, what's wrong with that? They just delivered a free uodate for TTK owners. Any work they did on this game would be a paid expansion anyways. Using Silver sales, they threw together SRL, Crimson Doubles, and Halloween. Is there really a difference between creating a paid expansion or putting that content in Destiny 2?
