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Big publishers ‘eject too soon’ from live service titles, says Warframe boss. “It comes out, doesn’t work and they throw it away” (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Love the guy, but he also misses over that warframe has monetizion that beats the pants off of all of the others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Hey, at least it's not P2W... right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It arguably isn't anymore, although it looks like it is. Yes, you can buy prime frames and weapons, but can't buy the mods or arcanes directly from the game to outfit them. Even then, prime weapons on their own are not the best in the game by a long shot, and a prime warframe does not guarantee it being "meta".

The weapons that are the best are locked behind story quests, and even once you unlock one of those vendors, only one of them that you can buy with platinum is any good.

They were considering adding a destiny style story skip, but when they asked for feedback it was so negative they immediately relented.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

you can buy prime frames and weapons, but can't buy the mods or arcanes directly from the game to outfit them.

How is this not the opposite of a pay to win mechanic? Either you play the game to find the mod or find someone to buy the mod from.

An even cooler thing is operator progress, whereby no amount of paying can take you through.

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