A player has calculated how much Glimmer (in-game currency) is needed to obtain all items from the in-game shop Eververse in Season 8 of Destiny 2. If one wants to get by without spending any money, the grind would be just insane.
What is the Eververse all about? Eververse is the in-game shop of Destiny 2. Guardians can acquire various cosmetic items like alternative skins for weapons and armor or even new season passes for Destiny 2.
Some items can only be purchased with Silver – the real money currency. Others can be obtained for Glimmer, which players can earn in-game. Some items can be obtained both for Silver and Glimmer during a season.
In the currently ending Season 8, about 50% of the items offered in the Eververse were available for Glimmer, while the other 50% were exclusively for Silver. In the upcoming Season 9, around 80% of the Eververse items are expected to be purchasable with in-game currency.
What exactly has the Guardian calculated? The upcoming changes in the Eververse prompted the Guardian and Reddit user anonymoususer1910 to conduct a small experiment. He has calculated the cost of buying all the Eververse items available during Season 8 that have been obtainable for Glimmer since the season started in October.
And as his results show, it is hardly possible to acquire all these items – at least not without spending real money. Because the grind for the required amount of Glimmer would just be insane.
How much Glimmer can be earned in Season 8? Even in Season 8, the economy in the Eververse changed. While Glimmer could previously be obtained by dismantling Eververse items, this is no longer the case in Season 8.
The only way to earn Glimmer currently is by completing weekly Vanguard, Gambit, or Crucible bounties (200 Glimmer per bounty) as well as the repeatable bounties for these three factions (10 Glimmer per bounty).
If you complete all these weekly bounties with one character, you earn 1,200 Glimmer, with 3 characters you get 3,600 Glimmer – per week.
Additionally, you can complete as many repeatable bounties as you want. However, you need a whopping 20 of them to match the amount of Glimmer from a weekly bounty. Each of the repeatable bounties also costs 3,000 Glimmer.
What does the total Glimmer offering in Eververse for Season 8 cost? The calculation includes not only the regular Eververse offering from Season 8 but also the items from the Festival of the Lost, which also took place in Season 8.
This is the result:
- If you exclude the old items that were already available for purchase in previous seasons, all Eververse novelties in Season 8 cost you 80,650 Glimmer.
- If you include the old items (after all, some only started with Season 8), you will need 108,290 Glimmer if you want all possible Glimmer purchases from Season 8.
- If you also add the Glimmer items from the Festival of the Lost, anonymoususer1910 calculates a total of 185,300 Glimmer.
How many bounties are needed for that much Glimmer? During the season, players could complete weekly bounties for 9 weeks on 3 characters. This would yield 32,400 Glimmer, which is not even a fifth of what is needed in total.
So, it would not be possible without the repeatable bounties. But how many of them would be needed?
Assuming that no weekly bounty was missed, you would still need to complete 15,290 repeatable bounties to reach the required amount of Glimmer.
These bounties alone would cost the Guardians 45,870,000 Glimmer, not to mention the time required for that.
The conclusion: Even if not everyone necessarily wants everything from a season – the experiment clearly shows that even players with enormous Glimmer reserves from previous seasons quickly hit their limits when it comes to shopping with Glimmer in the Eververse.
Because the sources for additional Glimmer are relatively limited and the items are expensive. The grind for a corresponding amount of Glimmer would be enormous and practically unfeasible. Players who want to have most or even everything from the seasonal Glimmer offerings (even if they are likely very few) will probably not be able to get by completely without spending real money or will have to limit their wishes.
Anonymoususer1910 does show an understanding that Bungie has to make money from the Eververse, but like many other users, he finds the number of needed bounties absurd. He emphasizes that he is not trying to insist on having all items from a season. He only demonstrates how substantial the theoretical effort would be.
In this context, it is also often criticized that the prices of Silver items in the Eververse are set too high. For example, an entire season costs about 10€. A number of Silver items costs only slightly less, while some bundles or sets often cost significantly more.
Generally, some find it unfortunate that the (aesthetically) coolest items are now almost exclusively available in the Eververse.
Changes in the Eververse for Season 9: Bungie has already announced changes to the Eververse for the upcoming Season 9.
In Season 8, around 50% of the Eververse items were available for Glimmer, while in Season 9 it is expected to be around 80%. Thus, you will be able to purchase more items with in-game currency.
Additionally, Guardians will receive more opportunities to earn Glimmer. For instance, all weekly and repeatable Dawning bounties (event-specific bounties for the Winter event “The Dawning”) will provide additional Glimmer.
You can learn more about this here: Destiny 2: The most important known changes for the new Season 9
What do you think of this result and the current state of the Eververse? Has the real money shop improved compared to before or worsened? And what do you think of the planned changes?
