I mean, if it’s PVE then yeah, it can works. Games like Fallout 76, ESO, Warframe, all can be played alone, while PVP multiplayer only games will suffer significantly if the playerbase drop below certain threshold.
Fo76 expansions are still coming every quarter, all free
I keep trying to get into this game but there is sooo much base building at the beginning… I just wanna play the fun stuff!
Also co-op mission progress makes no sense when playing in a group (only one person gets the progress?)
Free content is always great news tho!
You don’t need to do much base building, just throw some crafting stations in a box and call it a day.
For co-op everyone progresses in that same quest unless it’s instanced
I haven’t played since 2021 and some BoS DLC came out. Wonder how hard it would be to get back into it.
Pretty easy, when I started playing again I used the special stand to respec. I’m now stealth explosive but I now realise stealth doesn’t apply to explosive damage
Love the guy, but he also misses over that warframe has monetizion that beats the pants off of all of the others.
Hey, at least it’s not P2W… right?
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.
It helps that it’s not really pvp focused or competetively co-op.
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Live service gaming is having a bad time? Damn that’s crazy.
goes back to ROM hacked Armored Core 3
The end state of all live service games is to be thrown away.
Thing is, that’s how a lot of people treat games. They play them for a few days when they come out to extract the novelty of the new experience. They get annoyed that it isn’t as novel or new as when they were kids and experiencing it for the first time. Then they buy a new game. Rinse and repeat.
Games as a service just take advantage of that by promising that experience but in one convenient package: We’ll change the game every now and then to keep you interested instead of satisfied.
If a game is done well, it’ll stick with you. I’ve replayed Psychonauts so many times over the years, and I just finished another playthrough tonight.
All that means is that in pursuit of being one of the astoundingly few games that, even with updates, will keep people playing for years, they designed a game that won’t be around in a few decades for you to revisit.
Anthem was dead well before two years. They just straight up stopped updating it after like, 1 content patch.
This is a bit frustrating to hear from him considering this is exactly what he did with Wayfinders when he became CEO.
Wow, just looked into it cuz I hadn’t heard about that. And yeah, it looks like that’s exactly what he did a month after becoming CEO. In fact it looks like they closed the entire publishing side of the company and possibly laid those employees off. Super disappointed to hear that from the studio behind such a beloved game
Space Daddy knows best
That’s a good thing if it brings the company down. Less garbage released.
Company proceeds to be purchased by microsoft
The whole concept should just die already.
I used to hold the Warframe world record for fastest “100% achievements” at just over 1,600 hours (mind you, I wasn’t rushing).
I stopped playing shortly after Deimos released (late 2020). Is it worth revisiting?
I came back to the game half a year ago and I’ve been enjoying every update since. Seems like you enjoyed the game before, so I’d say it’s definitely worth a try.
We have some really cool stuff coming up this year, too.
Well… coming up 25 years ago.
Fellow 100%er (up to 0.7% of players now). Can’t say I did it fast, as I didn’t care until I ran out of things to do, but likely 2.5k hrs before I did it, now 4k hrs in and it is still a go-back-to game for quick 30min runarounds.
The main quest is pretty good, at least! The New War came out and resolved, same with Duviri and the return of the Zariman. I’m currently pretty excited for the actual for real 1999 timewarp featuring John Excalibur himself.
As for gameplay, I think its been on an upward trend since deimos. New warframe grinds usually come with a pity currency if you just can’t get a part to drop, and focus farming is a lot less of a pain.
They’ve been having nothing but wins for a year or two. Games at the best point it’s ever been imo! It’s actually a game I recommend now, though the rough point is still frame/weapon slots.
I always forget about slots… It’s a real stain on the game’s appeal for any collectors out there. It always feels bad to realize that you’ve got to put premium currency in or trash one of the items you had to grind out.
There’s a decent amount of slots for free through nightwave, twitch drops/gifts of the lotus of weapons/frames etc, but not enough to go the whole game on certainly, and new players won’t know how to get them. I’m LR4 without spending any money because I traded for plat a lot to buy slots, but that’s not something I expect people to do as a normal thing
Completely serious here: not only is Warframe the best free game I’ve probably ever played, but it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. It’s honestly incredible how much love and hard work have gone into that game and I’ve never had to spend a penny to have hours and hours of enjoyment and if I hopped on today there would be TONS of content for me I’ve never even experienced yet. Warframe fucks, big time.
Good
Yep! He didn’t target Wayfinders specifically, just wanted to get out of publishing, but effectively left Wayfinders without any online infrastructure and took most/all the early access funding with them. I loved DE for how they manage WF, but that was not it. And it’s even more sour now that’s pretending like he didn’t do it.
