Destiny 2 PLUMMETS 58%! Is It FAILING?

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Plus you also didn't mention that before Destiny came out people had no idea what it was, and it was a Hype-Train of "An MMO!? From the guys who made Halo!? Sign me in!" - now it's "Oh, it's a sequel to Destiny... I didn't hear good things..." or "Meh, first one wasn't my bag..." so perhaps a lot of people who didn't get into Destiny originally (but bought it to try it) are just not buying in release week to make sure they don't get burned because it was only an expansion or two in when Destiny hit it's full stride. And are also they could be likely waiting for PC. :D

It looks exactly the same as number one and resets all progress from the first (non transferable) ... of course its shit

Played D1 on console. I enjoyed it. Some of my best memories with friends in a game, which has been the trend with my relationship with Bungie through the Halo game and beyond. For D2, one of the attractions to the game has always been that MMO aspect, especially raid bosses PvE. A feature in games that has almost completely kept itself within PC gaming. While I can't say I speak for other PC gamers, I feel like the player base for PC after a pretty rock solid beta, if small, went over well and will be a large number of new players when it finally releases on Battle.net. (Quite glad it was small as I'm mostly glad to see how it preformed on PC before I dove into a poorly optimized game.) Overall, I'm excited. Sales won't get me down. I've already got 6 friends ready to tackle the raids on PC, and I couldn't care how sales go so long as my friends and I have the incredible times we've always had on Bungie games.

The problem is the price. Here in the EU it's a whopping 70 euro for the game and if you want to play the next few dlc's and want a season pass that's 99 EURO!!! A lot of people don't have that much money to spare. 

Destiny 1 launched on September 9th., the second Tuesday that month. Schools were already in session. Destiny 2 launched the first day of school for a lot of people, including me. I put it off for a week. Four days may not seem like much but just with how the days fall this year, I'm guessing that at least contributed to it. I played D1 and all its expansions the day they launched and I still waited a week. 

In addition, people could just be waiting a year to get all the expansions at a discount. Taken King and Rise of iron came with all the previous expansions. I'm sure they'll do it again. That or they're waiting for PC. 

I didn't even know that Destiny 2 came out. When I did, I wanted to get on PC but that won't be out until October 24th. After being strung along with the content of the first game I think I'll wait til December

I think the lack of digital sales data has a lot to do with it.  That's just how people buy games now.  But also the fact that developers continue to not allow crossplay and even cross-saves in their games so I think a lot of people are waiting for the PC release.  I know I am because that's how I want to play the game.  I'm not going to purchase a console version and invest over a month's worth of time into it when I know that I'm just going to have to completely start over when PC releases.  Now if they at least allowed cross-saves then yeah I would be more than happy to purchase multiple copies of the game.  Hell over time I'm sure I would end up with all 3 versions because all of my friends are spread across all 3 platforms.  I just don't have the time to invest in each one from start to finish so I'm patiently waiting for PC.  

The only reason this would worry me in the slightest is if it could potentially affect their support for the game with expansions etc. I really don't want to see another ME:A happen given that they have been the last two games i've bought. That said having it up Sunday and have been playing the fuck out of it and I'm enjoying it as much as I ever did the previous game.

You can't really blame people for hesitating to buy Destiny 2 after they royally screwed over the more dedicated players with their shit DLC plans from the first game.

The fact that it is also coming to PC this time, might make some people (like myself) wait for the PC version instead. cant wait to play it! or actually I can, otherwise I would already be playing it on the Xbox or ps4 :P

My entire raid team bought digital this time around, after buying physical for the original destiny. The expansion support was clunky at best if you bought physical and with the ability to preinstall and play at 12:01 for the same price, it was almost a no brainer. With over 1.2 million concurrent players according to bungie i think its pretty clear that the dip in physical sales is more than being made up for by digital sales.