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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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Look at CEO's paychecks and bonuses compared to employees paychecks and bonuses. Then factor in the increase in share prices of both bungie and activision. Look at these numbers from the games initial announcement to now. Compare with the increase in both staff and management positions within that time frame and the increased cost in salary and bonuses over the same time period. Then, take those numbers and compare them tothe rough figures you've estimated and you should find the two pretty close. Doing that will give you a rough estimate of where all the money has gone.
