Originally Posted by
Kumagawa
Well, not quite. The way he said it made it sound like individual people made purchases, totaling 500 million. What actually happened was that game stores all around the world, who likely have some sort of trade agreement with the developers, ordered 500 million dollars worth of game copies, totaling in about 8 million separate copies to be sold. This is not an achievement. This is normal. Literally every single game that gets created is sold and shipped to game retailers. Destiny's budget was 500 million, they made 500 million selling it off. They now broke even and have to wait for real people to actually buy Destiny for them to make profits and sales figures.
As a comparison, the new iPhone6 made "only" 4 million on the first day.
I understand the other guy's confusion though. There were indeed articles on sites like Kotaku saying DESTINY MADE 500 MILLION ON THE FIRST DAY. This is not because those shipment figures where anything noteworthy, its because game sites are literally payed by game developers to hype up their product, and they seemed to be grasping at straws to find a positive thing to write about Destiny (cos its bad) so they pulled a misleading monetary figure out of their donkey.
To be honest, Destiny isn't quite a game changer at all. I've played it a while at my friend's house, and it just seems average. The bosses, I noticed, were just re-sized and re-skinned normal enemies, the PvP was literally Halo, and it also reminded me of Borderlands a lot (which isn't necessarily a bad thing of course, but still). There's more stuff but I won't delve into it.
I can assure you though, that real gamechangers generally aren't hyped up, bloated shovelware games like CoD or Halo or whatever. It's modest gems like Half Life, Demons Souls, Deus Ex or MGS, that shake up the gaming world. The world of real gamers that is, the people who actually enjoy complex gameplay mechanics and experimental game design, and not hyped up copypasted bullsh*t with 20 hours worth of lame and repetitive content.
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Please, read my other post. If you were offended then I apologize and I hope I didnt ruin your day.
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