This is what likely happens when you create something purely out of commercial interests.

Let this be a warning to devs. dont fuck people over with the first one or you lose more money long term. 

Considering digital sales are starting to become 30-50 percent and the fact last gen versions aren't sold anymore.....makes sense. It probably sold around the same

my hopes and dreams are shattered

Good, this is what happens if you cant deliver 60fps to even the XBox One X or PS4 Pro which was demanded even before these new consoles came out.

Unlike uplay and origin, the majority of steam users have little to no issue with using battle.net launcher for some games.

Combine that with the fact the game is notably cheaper for pc and your argument doesn't hold up, a *LARGE* number of people already use battle.net for games like starcraft, overwatch, WoW, Hearthstone and Diablo, I doubt there a many people out there on PC that want to play destiny 2 but will pass on it to avoid using battle.net.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMD-6rxW4AAJBce?format=jpg
That's Ubisofts chart from 2014-2017 game revenue. So it's obvious that digital sales have gone us dramatically in the last 3 years I'd say even more so for destiny. The reason being it released on 360 and PS3 so that brought its digital down further. Going off this chart it's likely that after including digital d2 is down about 25% on D1 but after u account for increased profits for digital and micro transactions increase its highly likely that d2 has made just as much money if not more than d1. I think that's especially impressive considering destinys huge letdown and d2 still not out on pc(could be huge there, like overwatch).

Lol i must disclose thought that I am currently a stockholder in acti-blizzard so I may be biased.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-11-03-more-than-50-percent-of-destiny-2-console-sales-were-digital-downloads

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=232695&page=1

Seems like it's down that much because more people are buying digitally.