Confirmed via GameStop and Activision.
http://www.craveonline.com/gaming/a...014-destiny-pre-ordered-new-ip-gaming-history
http://www.craveonline.com/gaming/a...014-destiny-pre-ordered-new-ip-gaming-history
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Destiny is officially the "most pre-ordered new IP in gaming history", 1+ million
- Thread starter JLeack
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Congrats to Bungie. Beta was amazing, and I can't wait for the final game to release.
It's going to sell so much. I can't wait to see the numbers.
SwiftDeath
Member
That's going to look hilarious on the boxart
Care to elaborate on that a little?
ElRenoRaven
Member
People doubted but I knew this damn game was gonna be huge. Alpha and Beta proved it too. Congrats Bungie.
Denton
Member
indeed.
edit, on the other hand, it had pretty extensive beta, so that makes it somewhat better at least
Interficium
Banned
That didn't take long!
Pseudo judo
Member
Bungie's clearly got a massive hit on it's hands and cuddling up to playstation nation was without a doubt the right move for them. By all accounts the game seems very good and also maybe lacking in exploratory content with the intention of selling great piles of dlc. I'll wait for reviews and maybe even longer before I open my wallet.
It's the whole preorder culture thing.
Keysersoze
Banned
What was this one? i don't remember it.
Ol No Bones
Banned
I'm a bit surprised by this. The beta really was a disappointment to me.
As far as I'm concerned, Destiny deserves the popularity since most Gaffers were apathetic before the Alpha and Beta.
One man's disappointment is another man's treasure.
A response to the topic at hand? I never said it was a bad game, just that it wasn't anything special.
If anything, I think they are more like DLC's that are supposed to release before the big ''Comet'' expansion comes in a year after release.
Some people thought that the two DLC's were the ''Comet'' expansion, but I have a hunch that a ''Comet'' expansion will come on Fall 2015.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Use the money add matching for raids.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
"but it's totally gonna flop, you guys"
Lol, really excited to see this game light up the charts.
Lol, really excited to see this game light up the charts.
That's something a patch can do. No need for money to put Raid matchmaking.
Space Runaway
Member
Well I had to get in the beta somehow. =P
Speak for itself? The marketing for Destiny is insane. Everywhere and constant.
I'm with you.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Bungie isn't one to get comfortable with issues and stuff they can fix so if the game is massively successful that's awesome for them as they'll be able to move out of the shadow of halo and people will trust them more with new ips. Not to mention destiny 2 fixing most issues with the first one. Congrats bungie.
There was a thread (or a post maybe) on the over use of the words "gross" and "disgusting" on this forum and I gotta wonder...why is this so frequently used out of context now?
Watch_Dogs was this year. Although that had way better sales on the new consoles I think. Wonder if this situation will be similar?
I want this game delivered to my house on release day, and it costs me nothing to do this through amazon. What's the problem?
People like things you don't like. News at 11.
He means gross, as in it grossed a lot of money.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
These types of games, you can just feel how big they are. Everyone I know that is even moderately a gamer is buying Destiny.
The mentality of the games industry to try more and more to have consumers pay for stuff far before delivering on the content. A few years ago, people were fine with it when it was literally just preordering a game. But with DLC season passes and now subscription services, it's becoming a bit ridiculous.
Jim Sterling covered it in his latest video.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
But Amazon pre-orders are free?
Just because some retailers have shitty pre-order practices, doesn't mean the concept is bad.
Are you really gonna quote every person that doesn't like it and say "well I like it so idk"
Admiral Woofington
Member
Isnt that the same as people here coming to say "well I didn't like it so I dislike these news"
They're both equally as useless to conversation.
Someone needs to explain to me the story behind this.
This is exactly what I'm doing, I haven't even paid for anything yet. I agree with you 100% on DLC content and season passes, but that's not what this thread is about at all.
I intended it to be sarcastic, but I guess it didn't work out well.