Let me help you out you crayon eating mother -blam!-er..... If you invest 1000 $ of you hard earned cash into a company that makes video games that makes you a shareholder... Get it phucko? And if you get 4000 $ back you EARNED money on your investment. Guess what... Your paid. Bungie got paid. Now there is no reoccurring monthly sub fee is there..... The only way they make more money is by making more content and selling it. They do not make the game "last longer" unless you want to grind ( rng / I worked hard for my exotic cause the dice roll favored me horseshit ) So tell me, time gating and rng is a what? A feature? Other shooters, like battlefield and call of duty dont need to reward weapons randomly or by rng or make you wait, you earn them by putting in hours. You assure yourself your weapons by investing your time into it and guess what? Those 2 games have a healthy, rabid player base that consume dlc as well. They keep playing.... So whos the ignorant -blam!- now? These are both shooters as is destiny. Go back to trolling low IQ high school kids or go to work for destiny, sounds like your off to a great start.

From the Bungie-Activision contract summary on Wikia: * Bungie will receive $2.5 million per year from 2010 through 2013 to develop Destiny. * Bungie will receive between 20 and 35% of cumulative operating income for Destiny, depending on the total amount of income. * Bungie is eligible for a number of performance and sales-based bonuses depending on Destiny meeting certain development milestones and sales goals. Sources: Wikia: http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Bungie-Activision_Contract Full Contract Here: http://documents.latimes.com/bungie-activision-contract/ Operating Income is defined as the amount of profit realized from a business's operations after taking out operating expenses. Bungie gets between 20% and 35% of cumulative operating income. Weird, so I guess the other 65%-80% gets thrown out into the streets. As it pertains to microtransactions (a type of operating income), player retention is strongly related to in-game sales revenue. There is every reason for Bungie to continue to motivate players to continue playing. Activision takes the majority of the operating income, so you know they're in the same boat. Now, back to your original comment: [quote]Shareholders dont care after box sales how many people log in everyday, they got there money.[/quote] Omitting the grammatical errors that earn you front row seat on the short bus, this is an incorrect statement. The investors/licensee's in this case (Activision) VERY much care about how many people log in every day because those numbers are related to the current operating income AND potential operating income. They care so much that in the contract, there are agreement termination clauses based on both unit sales and operating income. [quote]So whos the ignorant -blam!- now?[/quote] The statement you made is still ignorant and misleading, "phucko."