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  1. Apr 24, 2013
    2
    I had a lot of fun with the game for the first few days, so it pains me to have to write such a scathing review and score it so low. Let's start on a high note with the pros:

    +Fun gameplay with a lot of different methods of customization. Modding your weapons, warframe(character), and sentinel(Pet) provides a lot of different avenues for progression. +There are (I believe)12 warframes
    I had a lot of fun with the game for the first few days, so it pains me to have to write such a scathing review and score it so low. Let's start on a high note with the pros:

    +Fun gameplay with a lot of different methods of customization. Modding your weapons, warframe(character), and sentinel(Pet) provides a lot of different avenues for progression.
    +There are (I believe)12 warframes to pick from, though you only get access to 3 out of the box.
    +You can potentially get access to all the content in the game w/o spending any money, excluding cosmetics such as colors.
    +A welcoming community and a section of the forum dedicated to helping new players and gets a respectable amount of traffic

    And now the low note. This is going to hurt, Warframe, but try to grit your teeth.
    ---If you do decide to spend money on the game, you'll find Warframe has one of the most expensive premium shops around. Buying a warframe can cost up to 25 dollars! Getting access to more than 18 colors(Not as many as it sounds) is 5$ a piece, and weapons range 5-15$!

    -----After you've spent hours farming the cash and crafting mats to build a weapon or warframe, you have to wait 12-72 hours for it to finish "building". But wait! If you spend a paultry 25-50 plat(The least plat you can buy is 5$ for 70 plat, the cheapest weapons, colors, and warframes being 75 plat, btw) you can rush it to get your hard-earned buy immediately. A laughably obvious inconvenience forced on the players in order to promote buying premium currency

    -The combat gets dull, after a while. The AI is pretty primitive, even for an indie game. Melee is gimmicky and with knockbacks and stuns abound, you're better off just keeping distance and picking enemies off. The game mistakes punishment for difficulty, if you're not careful it's very easy to be "stunlocked" to death, with very little you can do about it.

    -Expect a Diablo-level grind. The whole game is a grind and the only goal is to grind more, all the bosses are bullet sponges with little to no difficulty, the Infected(An enemy faction) are generally the hardest enemies you will fight, and that's only because of the stunlocking mentioned above.

    -Even though there are lots of options and customization, the game is plagued with balance issues. The Hek, Lex, and Dual Heat Blades will be the only weapon loadout you'll ever need. Half the cast can't even compete with other much stronger, more versatile Warframes. Health, Armor, and critical hit/damage mods are almost completely useless.

    -The levels are reused constantly. It's not uncommon to play on the same level multiple times within one short gaming session.

    -The handling leaves a lot to be desired. The game tries to be Assassin's Creed/Darksiders but it just doesn't have the polish things like wallrunning, sliding, and complex maneuvers need to function. Very rarely will you pull off super awesome stunts your friends will be wowed by. Once you get into the higher level content it all boils down to cover shooting because you just will not survive being in the middle of the grinder.

    To sum it all up, you pay out the ass for the conveniences premium currency offers, the game gets stale and very grindy, very quickly. I've read people praising the massive updates but they apply sweeping changes that completely alter the game, keeping it in a perpetual state of imbalance.
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  2. Mar 27, 2013
    4
    It seemed like a pretty good game, but after a few hours in its flaws became readily apparent. First off, I kept asking myself, didn't I just play that level? Because I pretty much did just play that level. It's the same thing, over and over and over and over and over again.
    Even then, the movement and combat mechanics seemed pretty awesome. If that was the only thing I was basing my
    It seemed like a pretty good game, but after a few hours in its flaws became readily apparent. First off, I kept asking myself, didn't I just play that level? Because I pretty much did just play that level. It's the same thing, over and over and over and over and over again.
    Even then, the movement and combat mechanics seemed pretty awesome. If that was the only thing I was basing my rating on, that would be an 8.5.
    But the real kicker to the groin is the real money system. $20 will get you a cheap warframe, a weapon, and some respawns. (So if you die a lot, you end up having to pay just to continue playing the game)
    If you really want everything, you can pay $260, and you after some time you may end up spending even more money.
    Their greed has completely ruined what could have been great. If, instead of charging us large sums for absolutely nothing, they had provided a wealth of content and charged us reasonable prices, they could have had a gold mine, but right now the game tailors to spoiled rich kids.
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  3. Mar 24, 2023
    3
    The issue I run into is only partially with the game, but most with the developers, DE.
    The game has, I feel, grown too big for its own good. There is just a feeling of monotony now, and when the new flavor of the month comes out, everyone has to shift gears and hope that bugs done ruin it.
    My big issue with DE is their lack of accountability with hacked accounts/plat and instead say
    The issue I run into is only partially with the game, but most with the developers, DE.
    The game has, I feel, grown too big for its own good. There is just a feeling of monotony now, and when the new flavor of the month comes out, everyone has to shift gears and hope that bugs done ruin it.

    My big issue with DE is their lack of accountability with hacked accounts/plat and instead say that people, who actively and honestly, use the market are guilty by association when they manage to get traded hacked in plat and are forced to pay for it out of pocket.
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  4. Aug 6, 2022
    0
    Terrible game. Developers are too lazy to make new content, so you'll be forced to do the same thing every day. The game has several locations and several modes for so many years of development. You can also be banned for no reason. At the same time, the ban is not for several days, but immediately forever. Don't waste your time and money on this garbage.
  5. Jun 21, 2022
    0
    Unfortunately, it is repetitive with a total grind to progress or just pay money for everything. Unfortunately, underwhelming.
  6. Jun 22, 2022
    0
    I have been playing periodically since 2013, recently they began to spoil relations with the players with a toxic agenda, the publisher becomes the same marginal and toxic as Blizzard
  7. Sep 15, 2022
    0
    New update and new creative director completely just destroyed every reason to play this game. Forcing a extremely dated and what can only be called an early 90's attempt at a new mode is complete abject failure. It throws everything a player loves about warframe away for a clunky restricted retro type mode that has zero nostalgia. It is the antithesis of warframe. The game is dead
  8. Sep 9, 2022
    0
    to nerf a weapon, they just delete it... lol (they reduce ammuniyion so after 5 hit you can't fire anymore)
  9. Nov 18, 2022
    3
    i played this game before i was old enough to get a job and afford better games
  10. Aug 29, 2020
    4
    1)It's the best GRINDING game, It uses dirty psychological tricks(gambling) to get you addicted and this makes a lot of people frustrated go to point 4).
    2a)If you don't have any good rivens or rare mods you will see the other people destroying everything and you will can sit down and watch the match.
    2b) Random is a big words considering you see really "weird" random events and
    1)It's the best GRINDING game, It uses dirty psychological tricks(gambling) to get you addicted and this makes a lot of people frustrated go to point 4).
    2a)If you don't have any good rivens or rare mods you will see the other people destroying everything and you will can sit down and watch the match.
    2b) Random is a big words considering you see really "weird" random events and generations, maybe a "conditioned random" term is more appropriate...After you roll a riven 100 times and you get only zoom ,recoil and ammo and then you realize a lot of other people get damage, multishot and critical with an unrolled riven..
    3)To get some essential mods you will need a lot of grinding and time(months or years) but if you farm and sell stuff 10 hours per day(for at least 6 months) or you pay cash for platinum(thousand of dollars to get everything)... hey i am playing an action game not a TCG!
    4)Very often in public games you will get really bad toxic players or totally idiots that will ruin your day.
    People will give you free idiot, or whatever in their languages screaming on their mics because you don't spam energy with trinity so they can destroy everything and you just have to press the keys 2 and 4. You will get an idiot because for a bug you find yourself after a mission in a solo mission of another person. You will get a **** because you haven't disconnected from the previous squad after 5 seconds. More other hundreds of these nice episodes...
    And this happened in few months...If you like these kind of persons then this is the right game for you.
    5) there is no or little information in game, you need to rely on the external wiki page made by fans. When you begin you have absolutely no idea what to do and you will waste precious resources you will need later...The fun is you will not have any idea even after months or years because often other people will complete a mission in few seconds and you will just press "w"
    to reach the extraction point.
    6) Full of bugs and after 30 minutes of mission you will get a change host and BANG! you loose the loot you were "working for".
    7a) There is not an internal market system to sell or buy objects in game, you rely on the trading chat and often it's a mess and you must rely on external sites...
    7b)Most of the time for the point 1) you will see absurd prices overall for rivens, 10.000 or even 20.000 plat(one of the in game currencies) , 20.000 platinum are $1000 and you can't convert plat to dollars so i don't understand(really i do but it's better if i don't write anything about...) why people ask and other buy at these prices...
    8) The gameplay becomes repetitive after few months, the only objective will be to get more powerful weapons and mods to humiliate newbies destroying everything on the map in few seconds, on the same mission you have repeated thousand(and thousand again) of times.
    The PVP was the only hope but is practically dead because people love to repeat the same mission thousand an thousand of times!
    The endless missions where you can test your skills are used by everyone to level their weapons and frames.. this means you can't go further.
    9)The graphic and design are nice.
    10a)You can play it for free if you want a new job as "tenno" 10 hours per day. If you don't have at least 8 free hours per day it's better you start to pay hundred of dollars to get the new powerful weapon, the last frame or the "god" riven mod that will make you COOL AND POWERFUL!
    10b)If you are not powerful and cool enough please don't try the Sorties missions(because i am fkin tired to repeat 10 times the same mission because people has no idea what to do for the point 5) or because they try to kill 10 level 100 bombards with an unmodded pangolin sword or their brand new MK1-braton..)
    11)Full of weapons! Yes there are thousand(again)of weapons!! And do you wanna know something? 99% of them are just pure crap, you will need to build them, grinding the resource to build and use them a dozen of times(no not thousand this time sorry) to upleveling your experience and to rank them! But hey it's the same crap so you need to polarize it to use your powerful mods so you will need to rank it again another dozen of times, and if a weapon need 6 forma you will do that totally hundred of times on the same mission... And All of this to discover you will make 1% of the total damage and killed 1 enemy while the other guys destroyed everything.
    13)Nice for few months after that you will understand that something is wrong repeating thousand and thousand(yes thousand!) the same mission to get an useful mod or a part for something you need!

    It's a such waste because this game has great potentials throwed away by extreme grinding and boring missions.
    After i wasted many hours just to find hard contend, endgame or something offering a real challenge, they nerfed all the enemies to make this game just a click game using OP abilities or spamming melee most of the time.
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  11. Nov 30, 2020
    0
    It’s a kinda fun game, but there’s no real progression as everything can be 1 shot and nothing can really kill you ever, wouldn’t be a problem if the game didn’t hide all the good gear behind a 500+ hour plus grind. Eventually all you can do is log in build you thing log off and log back in tomorrow to claim the thing you built yesterday. The last lvl of improving your builds is basicallyIt’s a kinda fun game, but there’s no real progression as everything can be 1 shot and nothing can really kill you ever, wouldn’t be a problem if the game didn’t hide all the good gear behind a 500+ hour plus grind. Eventually all you can do is log in build you thing log off and log back in tomorrow to claim the thing you built yesterday. The last lvl of improving your builds is basically sitting in a chat room cuz you have to actively sell a buy stuff, this community is cult like and will die on the hill that this game isn’t pay to win meanwhile they spend all their time trying to trade for premium currency. The game is basically do the same thing over and over except different results Expand
  12. Oct 1, 2022
    0
    you have to be such idiots to impose your LGBT propaganda on Muslims, then you wonder why they consider you pigs
  13. Dec 13, 2020
    4
    Used to be one of the best games on Steam with absolutely terrible and ignorant virtue signaling developers.
    Got banned after 6+ years of playing the game (over 3k hours in-game) just for posting in their forums some scientific facts that oppose their ignorant view on gender, that there are 2 biological human genders..
    The game used to be pretty good several years ago, now it's just same
    Used to be one of the best games on Steam with absolutely terrible and ignorant virtue signaling developers.
    Got banned after 6+ years of playing the game (over 3k hours in-game) just for posting in their forums some scientific facts that oppose their ignorant view on gender, that there are 2 biological human genders..
    The game used to be pretty good several years ago, now it's just same blueprint copy paste content every year, more dumb weapons, more dumb and idiotic warframes every year that make no sense.
    Promises on content never delivered as supposed to be.. Content in this game got so out of touch with their own twisted views on what the hell this game even supposed to be. This game is basically dead and Digital Extremes killed it themselves. Not worth playing anymore, you'd just be wasting your time.
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  14. Sep 13, 2013
    4
    Two words: 1. Repetitive. 2. Grinding.
    Alot.
    The level design is incredibly boring and you only shoot and slice with your katana/sword/thingy.
    I really did not appreciate this game after 1-2 hours of gameplay. And it took forever to get ANYTHING. Not even a single weapon or upgrade after 2,5 hours gameplay. Not even an item to build.

    Not recommending. But since it's free, try it.
  15. Dec 6, 2014
    4
    600 hours into it. Currently all I do is logging in for events. If you can't get the message out of that, read the whole review.

    It looks fancy and shiny, but after you get your eyes adapted to it, it becomes an endless grind. Gfx: Solid. The optimization for physx sucks, but the game looks amazing without it. Audio: You could say it's ok. Gun sounds are, often, allright,
    600 hours into it. Currently all I do is logging in for events. If you can't get the message out of that, read the whole review.

    It looks fancy and shiny, but after you get your eyes adapted to it, it becomes an endless grind.

    Gfx:
    Solid. The optimization for physx sucks, but the game looks amazing without it.

    Audio:
    You could say it's ok. Gun sounds are, often, allright, although most of them just lack the oomph part. Ingame music is like any other. You'll turn it off after a few hours and play your favorite playlist.
    Ambient sounds, like bullet ricochets, doors, elevators, are too quiet.

    Content:
    Apparently, DE thinks quantity>quality. In 2 words, power creep. It just doesn't work.
    In a lot more words,
    The mod system looks intriguing and as if it offers a lot of diversity, but in reality you'll be using the same set of mods for every enemy type and every mission. Basically, there are unused useless mods and mandatory mods.
    When you look at the mission map, you get the feeling you'll have to play a very long time in order to
    experience everything. Wrong. each tileset can be fully experienced, and gotten sick of, within several missions.
    The game offers boss fights! Awesome, right? When majority of the boss mission is running around 1shotting everything with your ubermodded weapon, and then killing a boss vastly inferior to your weapons, it's quite a meh experience.
    The newly added syndicates are yet another example of quantity>quality. 10 "different" factions, that all require the player to do 1 thing : grind mindlessly and endlessly.

    Guns:
    In correlation with previously mentioned power creep, there are uber awesome weapons and there are useless and unfun weapons. It's all fun and games while you're ranking up fun weapons, but run out of fun weapons and it becomes a chore worse than washing the dishes.
    DE isn't doing much to remedy this issue, but rather adding more weapons hoping they'll hit the right note occasionally.

    Grind:Reward ratio
    Grind's not always bad, if you reward the player. This game doesn't do that.
    Currently, there are plans to reward players with a high master rank(a general progress indicator), but it's all just paper.
    The newly added syndicates require such an enormous amount of farming to reach useful rewards that it's a major turn off for casual players.
    RNG drops. When the gods are on your side, it's a fun night, otherwise it's pretty frustrating seeing a weapon part, that you already have 10 of, drop mission after mission.

    Multiplayer factor:
    The game can be played solo, which is good but also says a lot about how much developers are investing in player to player interaction.
    There's the mandatory general chat, trade chat, guild chat, group chat, friends chat. That's it sadly.
    There IS a player hub planned, but seeing the previews, it's not really promising.
    Clans can have their own "dojos", but they end up being large abandoned museums of someone's creativity.
    Oh right, PVP. There IS pvp, but it's a sideshow, and a really bad one.

    The feel:
    First couple mastery levels(namely 8) - "Cool, I'm getting these mastery levels I don't know **** about, while trying out all these fun weapons. I don't care I have no idea what they do, it's cool and awesome."
    Post 8 - "Ugh, yet another **** weapon to level to get mastery up." *checks inventory and sees 20 more rank 0* "yeah, **** it."
    The fact that the game is discouraging use of single equipment a player finds fun, is rather baffling.

    P2W factor:
    The only mandatory platinum market purchases are inventory slots and weapon power ups, called potatoes.(they increase the mod capacity of a weapon by 100%)
    Thankfully they're pretty cheap and the powerups can occasionally be gained on special mission.
    Other than that, everything is attainable through farming, albeit it'll take much longer.

    Summary:
    The game doesn't feel new, but it sure feels fun the first 100 hours. If you don't mind being played a fool with "new" content based on the same principle, grind, you can keep being a positive statistic on their charts.
    The quite positive thing is the nearly non existent P2W factor.
    Basically, if you REALLY have nothing better to play, or have a fetish for ninjas in space, this is the game you can sink your money into. If not, wait for a 50% platinum discount, buy some platinum in the worth of an average indie game, buy inventory slots and kill time. Contrary to what fanbois preach, this is NOT an AAA title.
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  16. Aug 22, 2021
    0
    Play Warframe. Play it for more than a few hours, preferably with friends, and keep an open mind into doing some third-party research to straighten out some of these systems. Warframe takes so much of what makes ARPG’s addictive, and rounds it out with more polish and depth than most its competitors on the current games market. If the hooks aren’t deeply embedded by then, maybe somethingPlay Warframe. Play it for more than a few hours, preferably with friends, and keep an open mind into doing some third-party research to straighten out some of these systems. Warframe takes so much of what makes ARPG’s addictive, and rounds it out with more polish and depth than most its competitors on the current games market. If the hooks aren’t deeply embedded by then, maybe something this in-depth isn’t for you. 0/10 Expand
  17. Sep 15, 2019
    3
    I just..

    The story is good.
    The rest of the game is a grind with cookie-clicker combat.

    ...What?
  18. Mar 9, 2023
    2
    Microtransactions, Tencent game, and lowers the capabilities of previous gear to sell more of new content. Promotes streams by bribing people to be there, still not even worth joining the twitch stream as devs ignore player input. Toxic players slowly gravitate here as they get banned from other games, yet to see a case actually handled. Find a core game group of 3 other friends, andMicrotransactions, Tencent game, and lowers the capabilities of previous gear to sell more of new content. Promotes streams by bribing people to be there, still not even worth joining the twitch stream as devs ignore player input. Toxic players slowly gravitate here as they get banned from other games, yet to see a case actually handled. Find a core game group of 3 other friends, and discord only. Anything else will be dealing with people who ignore objectives, yet blame you for losses.
    As an example of some of the grind, you will run across items with an official .1% drop rate in only very specific circumstances. The devs felt farming these circumstances for this astonishingly rare mods were too common, so they further limited the opportunities of this circumstances occurring.
    Useless content gets taped on, and players pushed to utilize it. In a game about being a mercenary/ninja-assassin that uses 2 spaceships and a jetpack, you get pushed to learn to use a glorified skateboard. A skateboard that glitches you repeatedly into the ground, locking guns up and preventing you from continuing the mission. Meet the K-Drive, the nightmare of combat-loving players.
    Now, they advertise options, but to access these options you need slots. Slots need platinum, platinum needs real $$$. Grinding for the pieces of each item in a broken rng system isn't enough, they want you to pay to use the content. Cosmetics, understandable. Core content? I'd say "May your test server crash", but the devs don't test...
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  19. Jun 18, 2013
    1
    Generic run and gun action game. Difficult to tell any characters apart, very bland design. Enemies uninteresting. The focus is more on shooting than on the powers you are supposed to have making it quite generic. Levels are maze like and frustrating. There is no way to know what the drops/ pickups do so you never know if something is worth it. UI and controls don't feel natural, you oftenGeneric run and gun action game. Difficult to tell any characters apart, very bland design. Enemies uninteresting. The focus is more on shooting than on the powers you are supposed to have making it quite generic. Levels are maze like and frustrating. There is no way to know what the drops/ pickups do so you never know if something is worth it. UI and controls don't feel natural, you often don't know what you are supposed to press to do something. Not really worth your time. Expand
  20. Sep 6, 2013
    3
    My my... where do I begin with Warframe...

    Let's start with the good things first, because this game does have a few. It's a nice idea; I've always wanted to be a ninja in deep space. The ability to craft stuff is good too, and the level design, aesthetically at least, is rather well done. Now to the bad things, and strap yourselves in, because there are lots and lots of critical
    My my... where do I begin with Warframe...

    Let's start with the good things first, because this game does have a few. It's a nice idea; I've always wanted to be a ninja in deep space. The ability to craft stuff is good too, and the level design, aesthetically at least, is rather well done.

    Now to the bad things, and strap yourselves in, because there are lots and lots of critical flaws.

    Let's start with the aesthetic, or lack thereof; this game, even on the highest settings, looks awful. Half the time I didn't know what I was looking at.

    The sound design is terrible. The guns do not feel like guns in anyway, and the voice acting is practically criminal.

    The level design is linear, cramped and doesn't explore the main mechanic of the game being a ninja. Please tell me how I am supposed to be a ninja in the corridor of a spaceship? You better get used to it too, because the levels are pretty much corridor, room, corridor, room, corridor, with no variation inbetween.

    On the topic of the guns, none of them have any recoil, or anything, really. There's not really much reason to use anything else other than reading the stats and deciding which of the only slightly different weapons you prefer.

    The UI is probably one of the worst I've seen since ArmA II. I spent about an hour figuring out how to craft, and still to this day, I have not worked it out.

    The game is far too easy. I am roughly five hours in and I still have not received anything close to a challenge. This is reinforced by the all the enemies having severe mental defects. There are two types of AI, the ones that run straight at you, and the ones that stand in the same place and shoot you.

    The game also has one of the worst transaction models I've seen. You get two starting characters. Want another? Sure. £20, please. A weapon? £5.

    The whole "ninja" thing is clunky and not well designed, many a time did I find myself stuck to a locker in a corridor full of enemies. Luckily for me, the enemies seem to just be using BB guns.

    Warframe is bad game. Some people will say "Oh, it's still in beta, it's allowed to be bad". It's not, it's allowed to be bad if bugs are breaking it, but the core gameplay mechanics are. It's worth nothing more than to get the trading cards on Steam, and then just leaving it to rust away.
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  21. Jan 1, 2015
    2
    It fronts as a game about space ninjas, but there is no stealth or interesting ninja mechanics, it is a series of copy and pasted corridors with every mission playing out exactly the same as the last as you grind away at the same enemies. There is no story, there is no visceral combat, there is nothing much outside of spamming an ability, a fire arm, and a melee button at the same baddiesIt fronts as a game about space ninjas, but there is no stealth or interesting ninja mechanics, it is a series of copy and pasted corridors with every mission playing out exactly the same as the last as you grind away at the same enemies. There is no story, there is no visceral combat, there is nothing much outside of spamming an ability, a fire arm, and a melee button at the same baddies in the same corridors for hours and hours. Expand
  22. Feb 18, 2014
    0
    It looks nice at first, all the ninja, enemies and all that stuff (from a design perspective) it's actually pretty awesome. But the game itself is boring, lackluster and a huge grind fest. Also, it promotes into oblivion all the Nvidia Crap PhysX so it is a no go for AMD users (making the game like it's holding out on features on purpose and leaves an empty space).
  23. Sep 30, 2013
    3
    This game has a great hook and constantly comes out with new content on a (somewhat) regular basis. It's unique and holds a nice standard of promise.

    However, this game has no longevity and is a large grind to get certain things you want. Not to mention that if you want to get to late game, there are certain items that are gatekeepers to the late game that you have to -buy- with money
    This game has a great hook and constantly comes out with new content on a (somewhat) regular basis. It's unique and holds a nice standard of promise.

    However, this game has no longevity and is a large grind to get certain things you want. Not to mention that if you want to get to late game, there are certain items that are gatekeepers to the late game that you have to -buy- with money just to proceed into the game. Or you have to wait for them to do a livestream and MAKE a special alert for said items.

    This game is good for a small time frame, but it sadly just does not hold my attention. If want to grind for items, I'll play an MMORPG that actually rewards you for something that's impactful rather than farming for a new skin of something that already exists.

    Hope this helps.
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  24. Oct 15, 2014
    1
    I couldn't get into the art, the story is sub par compared to what's out there. The missions are a repeat, rehash...and get pretty boring fairly quickly. The parkuor stuff was neat, but they don't expand on it's gameplay at all.

    And the ai feels dated by roughly ten years.

    I feel not much thought was put into this game other than the store items...
  25. Nov 9, 2013
    3
    Well it is a great game... at first, the issue is it gets very boring very quickly. Repetitive levels and missions that usually consist of going to a location doing something and getting out whilst hacking everything in your path to bits as you do so. It has no real story no sense of achievement just mindless hack and slash and if that's what you look for in a game go for it, after all it is free.
  26. Sep 14, 2013
    1
    Yet another disappointing free to play game. What is it nowadays with these games overcomplicating everything? Nobody cares about story or context. No-one wants to spend time in unintuitive user interfaces. A free-to-play should be instant jump in and play without the need for a tutorial. Warframe is yet another brick in the wall of free to play games that make no effort to attract yourYet another disappointing free to play game. What is it nowadays with these games overcomplicating everything? Nobody cares about story or context. No-one wants to spend time in unintuitive user interfaces. A free-to-play should be instant jump in and play without the need for a tutorial. Warframe is yet another brick in the wall of free to play games that make no effort to attract your attention unless you are willing to play it for hundreds of hours. The graphics are horrible, controls aren't smooth and general gameplay is dull. Expand
  27. Jun 24, 2013
    2
    This game is nothing but a soulless third person shooter. There is absolutely no storyline. They didn't even try to write something. You are that and that and shoot them. Why? Who cares? SHOOT THEM! Okay. I've seen games like that... like L4D2. But that was awesome because of the lot of guns and the lot of cool enemies to shoot the hell out of. And one big stab... This game is repetitiveThis game is nothing but a soulless third person shooter. There is absolutely no storyline. They didn't even try to write something. You are that and that and shoot them. Why? Who cares? SHOOT THEM! Okay. I've seen games like that... like L4D2. But that was awesome because of the lot of guns and the lot of cool enemies to shoot the hell out of. And one big stab... This game is repetitive as hell... You go on a mission. The place looks cool... but if you play on that one little place again for the 16th mission. It is just absolutely stupid, boring and as I said soulless. You shouldn't play this game. Not a second. If you want to have a Co-op third person fun time then play Gears of War. 10 times better. Expand
  28. Aug 27, 2013
    3
    Honestly, the only reason I gave it a 3 is because there aren't a lot of games like this, especially F2P's. However, that doesn't mean I had any fun whatsoever running around like a maniac completing mindless quests and mashing buttons. The controls are wonky, the enemies are stupid, and the weapons aren't very inspiring. But SPACE NINJAS! If that's enough for you, I recommend thisHonestly, the only reason I gave it a 3 is because there aren't a lot of games like this, especially F2P's. However, that doesn't mean I had any fun whatsoever running around like a maniac completing mindless quests and mashing buttons. The controls are wonky, the enemies are stupid, and the weapons aren't very inspiring. But SPACE NINJAS! If that's enough for you, I recommend this game, otherwise it's about as deep as a teaspoon and less fun. Expand
  29. Aug 4, 2013
    1
    Amazing gameplay and graphics. But Lord o Lord it gets boring quickly. First of all, there is nothing in the game that is challenging in terms of difficulty. You could pretty much walk through enemies and bosses and laugh at how easy they die. The levels, bar some variations are pretty much the same and enemies variation is lacking to say the least. The loot, which we all love and cherishAmazing gameplay and graphics. But Lord o Lord it gets boring quickly. First of all, there is nothing in the game that is challenging in terms of difficulty. You could pretty much walk through enemies and bosses and laugh at how easy they die. The levels, bar some variations are pretty much the same and enemies variation is lacking to say the least. The loot, which we all love and cherish is uninspired and boring. It basically consists of the same weapons plans and mods with no variations to power. The game could have inspired itself from random loot generation in the likes of Diablo and Borderlands, but decided otherwise. This pretty much means everyone has the same weapons, the same mods and the same warframes which in my opinion provides no attachment to the character or sense of character uniqueness to the player. Last but not least is the cash shop. While I got a bundle at -75% steam summer sale, the normal prices are just too steep for any player. In addition, the only access to platinum (the currency used to purchase weapons and warframes directly, i.e. without crafring) is through the cash shop, contrary to some other f2p games where it is possible to gain small amount of the coveted currency through challenges or as rewards for difficult content.
    All in all, it is a good game to try and the free to play model should be incentive enough to try it out. But I would not spend more time on it since its novelty wears down pretty quickly.
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  30. Jan 10, 2015
    0
    Time to write a proper review and tell You gamers out there how bad “Warframe” really is. Since my first post has been taken down. I’m an early closed Beta tester over 2 years now, and I doubt many have my experience and knowledge about the game, so listen.

    What you get: (after 2 years) -100+ Missions sharing . . . -only 5 Maps with extremely repetitive map layout -few gamemodes with
    Time to write a proper review and tell You gamers out there how bad “Warframe” really is. Since my first post has been taken down. I’m an early closed Beta tester over 2 years now, and I doubt many have my experience and knowledge about the game, so listen.

    What you get: (after 2 years)
    -100+ Missions sharing . . .
    -only 5 Maps with extremely repetitive map layout
    -few gamemodes with the objective to kill all or defend and kill all
    -a very very very bad AI, best at not killing you
    -quiet bad game sound, most of us players have Warframe muted
    -long loading & connecting times between missions (SSD & 8-core)
    -lag, due to player hosted at every time
    -30fps or lower due to the extremely bad optimised “Evolution Engine” (GTX 970)
    -and a game being in beta for 2 years, only getting worse -> most importantly more PAY2WIN.

    Digital Extreme: Ninjas Play Free!
    Players: Cool. Well it took me 5 hours but now I got this blueprint for my second weapon, what do I do with it?
    Digital Extreme: (Grins) First you farm a lot for the resources then you’re going to wait 12 more hours for it to finish. OR you buy the weapon in the market for 5€ only.
    Players: Oh okay, ill craft it overnight then. (night passes) Wait, now it says I don’t have enough inventory space for it, what can I do? And what about Warframes?
    Digital Extreme: Pay us.

    I know, to make something it takes money, or passion. They have enough money, easily – but have no idea how to make a game – good. Grindfest =/= Fun. They don’t listen to the community. They nerf and delete things we liked, worked ingame and implement things we never need or asked. The Devs ignore even the simplest requests. I have yet to see a more arrogant bunch of developers.

    No lore, you can fantasize about it, but there is none.
    No quests, you can call your missions quests if you want, that’s what the developers do.
    No endgame, you read right, no endgame. Just the same missions and enemies all over again.

    But the best (worst) part about the game is the progression (experience) mechanic. Using your cool stuff to level up sounds really good, but not in Warframe. I wont go into details but I can say to use your weapon/warframe you have to level it to 30. Which takes many hours!
    Digital Extreme: But wait, you can buy boosters to level quicker! And a catalyst to make it 60 (not just 30)!

    That’s basically what you (cant) hear but see everywhere in the whole game. Pay us & grind free.
    I discussed a lot with people why Warframe has such a high user scoring on “Metacritic” and we came to the point it’s because about the first few hours, it looks good, many weapons, warframes and a lot to do.

    Every update just includes more weapons MUCH more to grind, just to level them and throw away afterwards, nothing fun. There are no improvements, no engine fixes, no nothing. You spam 1 key ingame and win.

    It is addicting somewhat somehow (at first), you want more, better weapons, the best actually! 50 hours of grind is enough and you will have access to everything ingame. And that’s exactly the point you realize how much time you wasted and now that you finally have your weapon - there’s nothing more.
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  31. Dec 22, 2013
    3
    It baffles me how this game is flawed, even for an indie beta game. I wouldn't mind it too much having bugs in a beta, I did my shares of beta and I know what it entails, what bothers me is what is not there. First, how do you expect to get new people to enjoy the game when the tutorial is so horrible?! I've never seen a tutorial so badly done, where almost nothing is explained. Sure, youIt baffles me how this game is flawed, even for an indie beta game. I wouldn't mind it too much having bugs in a beta, I did my shares of beta and I know what it entails, what bothers me is what is not there. First, how do you expect to get new people to enjoy the game when the tutorial is so horrible?! I've never seen a tutorial so badly done, where almost nothing is explained. Sure, you get to know to to move and kill enemies but that's it, some commands are not explained (like changing weapons, even though the tutorial *asks* you to do it, not even a "this key by default" prompt) the missions are not explained, the forge is not explained and neither are the mods. If the missions were easy to understand, it wouldn't be a problem but how you're supposed to know that, in order to capture a target (which you're ordered not to kill at any cost) you have to *shoot* it
    The game is pretty, I'll give it that, it's smooth, runs well and I will admit that the slick look of the warframes and the cooperative side of it is what got me to try. The cooperative is more "free for all" than real cooperation, with people rushing in to get the goods before the others.
    A big disappointment for me, and I might give it another try when the glaring flaws have been fixed.
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  32. May 26, 2013
    4
    Right now, the game has so little content it's not even worth mentioning, the platinum amount you pay for a single weapon or gear is absurd, and the warframes don't feel any different from each other at all, you only have the look and 4 different abilities, of which some of them are copy and paste on some characters. The gameplay is repetitive, the bosses aren't challenging and for that itRight now, the game has so little content it's not even worth mentioning, the platinum amount you pay for a single weapon or gear is absurd, and the warframes don't feel any different from each other at all, you only have the look and 4 different abilities, of which some of them are copy and paste on some characters. The gameplay is repetitive, the bosses aren't challenging and for that it won't last you a very good time. However, the developers are doing a great job taking feedback, and for that i have great expectations for the future of warframe, but right now, it isn't a pretty good game at all. Expand
  33. Apr 6, 2013
    4
    This game has a good idea behind it, and its obvious that a huge amount of work went into the graphics and gameplay. Sadly, the product is a jakny mess, with melee combat feeling as smooth as driving a forklift, the guns lacking satisfying punch, and several of the warframe class based abilities being downright useless (loki, Im looking at you) this game is in dire need of some polish. AddThis game has a good idea behind it, and its obvious that a huge amount of work went into the graphics and gameplay. Sadly, the product is a jakny mess, with melee combat feeling as smooth as driving a forklift, the guns lacking satisfying punch, and several of the warframe class based abilities being downright useless (loki, Im looking at you) this game is in dire need of some polish. Add to that the problem of hideously occurring environments and enemies, and you have a great looking, great sounding game which leaves me just wanting something more. I feel like the problem was that the dev team made the game, complete with assets and game logic, without asking the opinion of anyone NOT involved with the project. Were I making a passion project, and just wanted to make a butt-baby of MGS and Ninja Gaiden, this would be a visually acceptable result. However, I, personally, dont have all that much attachment to this game's visuals (well made though they may be), so the game's numerous and glaring gameplay flaws force me to give this game a 4. Expand
  34. May 28, 2013
    4
    This game is a mmofps co-op i dont know what to say but the game sound is terribe like bf series,turud turdur tudur boom boom bam boom,yeah this is how the music plays in combat and the enemies like that,merr miarr merr,this game needs improvements the craft system is ok,the menu is bad i loved the old menu like you had info of the mission but now you dont you only see info on events ifThis game is a mmofps co-op i dont know what to say but the game sound is terribe like bf series,turud turdur tudur boom boom bam boom,yeah this is how the music plays in combat and the enemies like that,merr miarr merr,this game needs improvements the craft system is ok,the menu is bad i loved the old menu like you had info of the mission but now you dont you only see info on events if you press the event at the ALERT tab i dont recommend this game it's a bad game i will get back on the release Expand
  35. Apr 18, 2013
    4
    Summary: Warframe is a third-person action shooter free to play that is somewhat pay to win. Regardless of trying to avoid the cash shop you still have to to get extra slots for your Warframes and Guns which is much needed as you play further. The difficulty of the game also hangs in the balance on your credit card balance. So I enjoyed the game and paid 50 dollars to be a founder to get aSummary: Warframe is a third-person action shooter free to play that is somewhat pay to win. Regardless of trying to avoid the cash shop you still have to to get extra slots for your Warframes and Guns which is much needed as you play further. The difficulty of the game also hangs in the balance on your credit card balance. So I enjoyed the game and paid 50 dollars to be a founder to get a new Warframe and some value Platinum and restarted and soloed at the beginning with this new Frame with weapons bought from Cash Shop and was it a lot easier over my first Warframe that had massive amounts of difficulty on the first parts. As you get further though all Cash Shop weapons are purchasable even by in-game money but you have to build most of the awesome ones via blueprints.

    Graphics and Visuals: There is nothing truly outstanding in this game that you haven't seen before. Nothing really game breaking or amazing. The bloom though is overtoned to the point where I had to turn it off because White Warframes are blindly bright.

    Sound, Music, and Voice Acting: Nothing you haven't heard before. Guns go boom. Enemies scream. There is one hilarious thing where you capture people and they are just screaming their heads off though it'll get tiring after awhile. The music may be repetitive but I never get tired of it! It gets me pumped and is truly amazing. The drums and the beat just gets you pumped and wanting to shoot everything! Voice acting... well... there's not much to go by here. The game has some stupid alerts though. I mean really irrelevant like telling me what type bad guys are up ahead but later in the game that becomes useful as you'll run into a variety of them. One thing that was really stupid was saying "Something is wrong, there is a heavy unit approaching." I'M SHOOTING UP THEIR ENTIRE BASE/SHIP! Of course something is wrong!

    Story: This is non existent. Seriously. Bad guys are taking over the universe. You are a killer robot. Stop them. After that... yep nothing.

    Difficulty and Replay Value: You won't see any real challenge if you use the cash shop at the start. This game will be extremely hard at the start and end if you don't use it. The end game gets a lot harder with or without cash shop. This game is extremely repetitive but it keeps my interest so it is hit or miss for people. You shoot you run you rinse and repeat until you complete the 1 of 5 different objectives.

    Multiplayer: Well it's an MMO... there is no PvP and I'd certainly hope so because only certain guns are worth using and are overpowered. Not to mention those who buy via cash shop would have an unfair advantage early levels.

    Overall: This game is nothing special and nothing great. It's a game that will either stick to you or not. I enjoy the game so I like it but... even then my score isn't going to be biased. It's a 4 out of 10... because... well it's nothing game breaking or new... I just really enjoy being a killer robot lol.
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  36. Dec 9, 2013
    0
    I would have given it a "1" for effort but after all the deception and abuse of the customers I just can not.
    Currently there are 27 pages including 540 postings by extremely angry players of this game on the Warframe forums regarding the ill treatment we have received at the hands of this company.
    - Free to play? Before you invest your time and money in this potentially wonderful but
    I would have given it a "1" for effort but after all the deception and abuse of the customers I just can not.
    Currently there are 27 pages including 540 postings by extremely angry players of this game on the Warframe forums regarding the ill treatment we have received at the hands of this company.
    - Free to play?
    Before you invest your time and money in this potentially wonderful but actually disappointing game please read on.
    Welcome to Warframe where you will be asked to invest real money to buy in game platinum currency which is used in a nonrefundable manner to purchase items that improve your otherwise useless "free" weaponry.
    Then watch your weaponry (for which you have paid real money) get arbitrarily destroyed by nerfing. While new items are then offered to you in the market for real cash to replace your now useless weapons.
    Alternatively you will be asked to grind out 100 missions in a "special Event" for a promised reward weapon.
    You do the grind you get a nice weapon that looks worth investing real cash in in order to make it a respectable end game weapon. Then weeks later after spending your real money and wihtout any warning the nice weapon you got gets basically destroyed by a major nerf from the developers and the weapon is simply no longer useful.
    This has been a recurring theme for this game for months now and the veteran gamers are extremely unhappy with this business model.
    The developers have repeatedly encouraged players to spend real money on an allegedly F2P game to get decent weaponry and then they have repeatedly trashed those weapons to the point of uselessness only to introduce a new weapon for real currency rinse and repeat.

    Case in point a weapon called the Soma offered for sale for real cash and a weapon slot purchased for real money weapon purchased then subsequently the stats significantly change from the purchased weapon stats rendering it far worse and in fact useless in many parts of the game.
    Case in point -
    A weapon called the strunwraith shotgun offered as a reward for time invested in special event which the developers used to test a new game format.
    Event done weapon awarded then subsequently "nerfed" to the point of being put back on the shelf. Oh yes this weapon also consumed real cash for a weapon slot and for upgrades to make it truly useful.
    Current Case in point -
    A weapon called the Brakk again an event reward for running over 100 missions! 100 mission! That is a HUGE investment.
    And again the warframe developers arbitrarily ruined the weapon after many people had invested real cash upgrading it too.

    The behavior of the game developer here, DE, is at best abusive and indifferent to the gaming community. But it also constitutes engaging in deceptive and unethical business practice.
    I would strongly encourage the gaming community to avoid spending any more real cash on this game until a little well deserved respect is shown and this reprehensible bait and switch business practice is terminated .
    If you don't believe me then go to the warframe forums page and read the now 27 pages of 540 postings of extremely angry gamers. It says way more than I ever could.
    Avoid this game like the plague.
    thank you
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  37. Jan 4, 2014
    4
    Trust reviewers, this game is a mediocre experience. I do belive if we haven't got this trend in gaming to give games higher ratings than they deserve, Warframe would have been given max 5/10 I'm 100% sure.
    1. The game isnt enjoyable except first 2,3 days.
    2. Kinesthetics sucks. 3. Gameplay is not balanced. 4. Playing seems pointless 5. This game looks and seems stupid 6. Is poorly
    Trust reviewers, this game is a mediocre experience. I do belive if we haven't got this trend in gaming to give games higher ratings than they deserve, Warframe would have been given max 5/10 I'm 100% sure.
    1. The game isnt enjoyable except first 2,3 days.
    2. Kinesthetics sucks.
    3. Gameplay is not balanced.
    4. Playing seems pointless
    5. This game looks and seems stupid
    6. Is poorly designed (in every possible way!).
    This game is good for newbies. Experienced players will find it boring. Very quickly.
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  38. Apr 24, 2013
    4
    It was fun for the first few days then when I realized I hit the end of their content at the last unexplored planet I got bored very fast. The other warframes just aren't really anything to obsess over and work farming several weeks for. Sorry but they just not unique enough especially when the game is so easy and hey arn't even needed anyway. Same thing goes for the weapons. Boring andIt was fun for the first few days then when I realized I hit the end of their content at the last unexplored planet I got bored very fast. The other warframes just aren't really anything to obsess over and work farming several weeks for. Sorry but they just not unique enough especially when the game is so easy and hey arn't even needed anyway. Same thing goes for the weapons. Boring and not worth farming for after you hit the end of the content. If you want me to grind the repetitive levels endlessly for weeks to get something to drop you have to make it worth doing. That said it's free to play. I didn't expect much, didn't get much, and lost nothing but time. Oh well... Expand
  39. Apr 18, 2013
    4
    Really disappointed in this game. The characters design are uninspired, the weapons lack any kind of punch, the melee system is really buggy. Worse, the action seems sluggish, the gameplay can be summed up by "Walking on a straight line shooting thingees" with some "Crouch behind a wall to reload", and you've seen most of the enemies after 2 hours of gameplay.

    In the end, it appears to
    Really disappointed in this game. The characters design are uninspired, the weapons lack any kind of punch, the melee system is really buggy. Worse, the action seems sluggish, the gameplay can be summed up by "Walking on a straight line shooting thingees" with some "Crouch behind a wall to reload", and you've seen most of the enemies after 2 hours of gameplay.

    In the end, it appears to me like a shinier version of the ME3 multiplayer, without the fun. Shame.
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  40. Feb 13, 2014
    1
    This game will be dead in a couple of years fighting against consoles that will wipe your *** for you. So take your year 2035 and suck it Warframe lmao!
  41. May 25, 2015
    2
    This game is an absolute time sink. It requires a significant investment of time, and if you want to make any real progress, money as well. This is just part of my review from my steam profile:

    One word review: Disappointing More details: This is a game that starts off really promising. Interesting controls, large variety of weapons, numerous ways to level up and progress, seems like
    This game is an absolute time sink. It requires a significant investment of time, and if you want to make any real progress, money as well. This is just part of my review from my steam profile:

    One word review: Disappointing

    More details: This is a game that starts off really promising. Interesting controls, large variety of weapons, numerous ways to level up and progress, seems like it has it all.
    Unfortunately it crumbles under it's own weight. Numerous ways to level up turn into an extended grind game that is overwhelming. The large variety of weapons turns into a double edged sword, which requires an explanation of the mastery system.
    Each weapon, warframe, and anything else you can take with you to level up has a cap of level 30. The levels that you acquire during gameplay all contribute points towards a mastery system. The mastery system caps how much progress you can make in a given day towards other aspects of the game.

    There is a faction type system in a game called syndicates. The items offered by these syndicates are generally considered extremely good, and cannot be acquired any other way. The problem with this syndicate system, is that the points you can acquire each day is capped at a rather low number. Add to this problem with points that are capped universally. You may have 10000 faction points you can make in that day, but that's across ALL factions.
    In certain syndicate themed missions, you can search for insignias, that you can turn in to a vendor for additional syndicate points, sometimes worth more points than the mission themselves, but there are at max 8 of these in a given mission, and it is an exhaustive search through very large missions that can sometimes border on futility. The worst part is if you decide to do these missions with other people, but they decide they don't feel like searching for all of them, and rush to the mission end point, you will be forced to end the mission after a 1 minute timer. You CANNOT replay these missions, and if it ends early, you could be out of potentially thousands of points.
    Naturally I did most of these missions solo, even though the rest of the game recommends, and is designed for group play. I will add I also did Spy missions solo, as even 1 person in your group triggering an alarm, can lead to the entire group failing the mission.

    The biggest problem with the mastery system, and where the game really collapses under is own weight is leveling the weapons. There are so many filler weapons in this game, that are commonly called "mastery fodder", that acquiring these mastery points becomes a chore. It takes time to level weapons, made all the worse by leveling weapons that are weak, and not fun to use. You can tell very quickly when a weapon you are using is terrible.
    This is aggravated by the fact that you are limited to how many weapons, warframes, etc, that you can have in your inventory. Unless you are willing to buy premium currency, which of course costs real money, you cannot increase your inventory size. That has been an issue since the game came out years ago, along with many other issue which I will go into later.
    Numerous weapons and warframes, that you might have actually liked, will be sold and discarded, all because you don't have space for them, unless you're willing to fork over a lot of money. The game gets to the point where you might be looking at hundreds of dollars of investments, if you're willing to make significant progress in this game. The day and age that we live in with steam sales, bundle packs, and numerous other sources of price discounts for quality games, makes the $50-$60 retail game almost a thing of the past. This game will be looking for much more money out of your pocket.

    In addition to leveling up the weapons for mastery points, you also level these weapons for mod slot points. At level 30 you have 30 mod points to empower your weapon. The mods ALSO require leveling up, however they don't level up from use, but rather by sacrificing other mods to level them up. In addition to sacrificing mods in this process, you ALSO use up credits, which is the games fictional currency. This can be one of the most expensive parts of the game is terms of credit use. Unfortunately, the developers of the game seem to be aggressively cracking down on ways to farm credits, which in and of themselves are still excessive time sinks.
    Leveling mods and farming credits are one of the longest processes in the game, however Digital Extremes is all too happy to offer ways to boost your credit income, or level up mods, for your platinum in their premium stores. I think it says enough that one of the most popular store purchases are fusion cores, which help level up your mods, at an extremely overpriced platinum amount. I want to say it was the equivalent of $5, but i could be wrong. Either way, it was still overpriced given the amount of other things Digital Extremes wants you to buy....
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  42. Oct 23, 2018
    3
    Warframe has a lot of interesting and creative shooter-gameplay mechanics which are spoiled by a vicious business model for long term progression. The fundamental design of the game revolves around abusing addiction and heavy time sinks, which is an especially dangerous combination for vulnerable populations. One of the consequences of this model is that the core appeal of the gameWarframe has a lot of interesting and creative shooter-gameplay mechanics which are spoiled by a vicious business model for long term progression. The fundamental design of the game revolves around abusing addiction and heavy time sinks, which is an especially dangerous combination for vulnerable populations. One of the consequences of this model is that the core appeal of the game switches gradually away from the experience quality towards virtual currencies and items, reducing the time spent in-game down to mindless repetition.
    Warframe can still be a satisfying and beautiful experience if played responsibly and in moderation. However, by merit of the existence of better, less predatory shooters, it is best passed up. This should be avoided at all costs by people with addiction-prone personalities.
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  43. Apr 1, 2019
    0
    The people who made this game have absolutely no idea how to make a balanced combat system. And it's not only that, basically everything about this game has so many flaws and instead of fixing them they go and create new ones just for profit. This game tries too hard to be something that its not, a fast paced over the top action that's fun in the first few hours but gets so repetitive andThe people who made this game have absolutely no idea how to make a balanced combat system. And it's not only that, basically everything about this game has so many flaws and instead of fixing them they go and create new ones just for profit. This game tries too hard to be something that its not, a fast paced over the top action that's fun in the first few hours but gets so repetitive and boring you'll be asking yourself, "What have i done to deserve this cruel punishment?" And that's not the only thing wrong with the combat, it's so unbelievably broken and unbalanced. That doesn't really help with the pvp which is just a joke.
    The microtransactions are absurd. Do you want to change a colour on your suit? Well to bad you have to pay $5 just for ONE set of colours ;) Oh what's this? You want to play a different teno suit? Well you can grind for over 50-300 hours and then wait another 3 days for the blueprint to finish OR you could just pay $50 to have it right now.
    This entire game is focused around the microtransactions. That's literally it. That's why this game still, after years, has thousands of bugs, AI as choppy as can be and a ridiculous amount of grinding. It is NOT worth your time.
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  44. Mar 17, 2016
    0
    RIP Warframe. Been playing since PS4 launch day, at the time of writing Mastery Rank 21.7 and all frames. Ive watched as its only gotten worse every month. Or every 3-4 months, since consoles are not even top 10 list of priorities for Digital "PC Masterrace" Extremes. Almost 3 years now and still no "wars" are being fought, no clan based pvp, no working Dark Sectors, no auction/marketRIP Warframe. Been playing since PS4 launch day, at the time of writing Mastery Rank 21.7 and all frames. Ive watched as its only gotten worse every month. Or every 3-4 months, since consoles are not even top 10 list of priorities for Digital "PC Masterrace" Extremes. Almost 3 years now and still no "wars" are being fought, no clan based pvp, no working Dark Sectors, no auction/market system for trades, and the same old boring hallway missions and void key grinds. All DE does is add more cosmetics and p2w systems. The raids are actually worse than Destiny and Conclave is a joke - completely disjointed from the main game with separate rules and stats. Archwing could have been a redeeming factor if the Arches played more like Gundams and the enemies were more like Mobile Suits, however you are just a monkey with a rocket pack fighting miners on hovercrafts. DE should have never ported to PS4 (and even worse to xbox) if they had no intentions of running Crossplay. And to top it off I had to start from ZERO on PC because DE wont let me transfer my frames, mods or weapons? Oh well, Paragon will be the game you wish Warframe could be. Crossplay, PVP focus, AND all frames free? Take notes DE. Forward this memo to China HQ. Expand
  45. Jun 24, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. [No, reviewers, you can't make me change my score by downvoting the review. The game is paytoplay.] Honestly one of the worst games that emphasis on micro-transactions. You need platinum for warframe slots, weapons slots, color palettes. Holy mother of god. Even Adventure Quest Worlds was better, in AQW they give at least 40 slots when the game first released. Meanwhile, Warframe is like, you have grind for the class, you have to grind for the weapons, OKAY STOP, you didn't pay the toll to keep your items, PAY TO PLAY! Farming for free platinum is a pipe dream, the vaulted items are hard to come by. The worst part is host migration, there is no penalty for leaving the campaign and most of the time I got stucked in a mission with Lvl 60 enemies. Expand
  46. May 9, 2013
    2
    A massive grind, repetitive game-play, lack of character customizing options and very limited world graphics, Warframe is nothing more then another Scifi shooter with role playing elements tacked on. Controls feel loose and broken. Lack of a cover system makes the game even worse.

    Don't bother, play something else.
  47. Oct 18, 2013
    1
    You get a one. Why? For your complete disregard in combat mechanics for new players.

    You completely try selling the game on the idea it's about ninja's, but then give them a fully automatic rifle, have the computer enemies fight like gears of war gods, and you have to stand there out in the open hoping to hit the target while absorbing as many bullets as possible. You may get lucky
    You get a one. Why? For your complete disregard in combat mechanics for new players.

    You completely try selling the game on the idea it's about ninja's, but then give them a fully automatic rifle, have the computer enemies fight like gears of war gods, and you have to stand there out in the open hoping to hit the target while absorbing as many bullets as possible.

    You may get lucky by moving quick enough to hit them a few times with the sword, but by then you've already taken too much damage.

    Oh the powers? Yeah they don't tell you that either, but what ACTUALLY makes you a real ninja in the game are your powers and you don't get those till later, nope it's full on pay 2 win and garbage style combat gameplay for ANYONE that tries to just jump in WITHOUT paying a dime.

    Hey it's free to play! (You will not enjoy this.)

    The only way you could possibly enjoy it at all is by forking out $39.99 if you really need all that, but if you're like me and just wanted to play free with your first 4 powers given to you that would've been great because ninjas were always about stealth, not stupidity.

    I installed this game like everyone else that jumps in, immediately it was about everyone standing out in the open just firing out in the open like a very generic call of duty game.

    If you wanted to play a game with better fighting mechanics you could've always just picked up some assassin creed games and enjoyed that.

    I gave this 1 for the fact you can make the so called "ninjas" look good, but they don't actually "play well" when you use them for combat. You are not ninja.

    To any of those people giving "10's" left and right you need to shut up, it's free go try it out!

    No I'd rather go play Path of Exile, or even D3 rather then have one more second of painful agonizing torment of terrible "ninja wanna be's" flooding the internet's over done free 2 play- I mean pay 2 win gaming market.

    I downloaded it off steam just like the rest of you people, you aren't fooling anyone, it's a joke of combat mechanics and you know it. I have no lag, no movement issues except for the fact you cannot dodge, evade, or move fluent enough through the game to actually get any value out of it even if you DID end up paying a crap ton of cash cause even then those 4 powers you use are limited to some sort of resource that expires too quickly in mid combat.

    You get a "1" for "good looks" because that's about all there is.
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  48. Aug 15, 2014
    0
    Extremely repetitive. updates are turning into jokes. bugs everywhere. community is next to COD when it comes to smugness.The "dev streams" are more like sale pitches. "look whats coming, in 5 or so months and probably not much like what we are showing now"
  49. 10o
    May 8, 2015
    3
    TL;DR Avoid this game, look for a better alternative, and save your money. Fine to play in short bursts, regardless.

    It relies heavily on long wait times(between half a day, to three real-life days) for item crafting, RNG, and heavily diluted loot pools to extend it's life. On top of that, use of extra warframes, weapons, or companions requires slots to be purchased with real money, or
    TL;DR Avoid this game, look for a better alternative, and save your money. Fine to play in short bursts, regardless.

    It relies heavily on long wait times(between half a day, to three real-life days) for item crafting, RNG, and heavily diluted loot pools to extend it's life. On top of that, use of extra warframes, weapons, or companions requires slots to be purchased with real money, or to sell gear to other players for "Platinum", which is the game's premium currency purchased with real money. Going back to the RNG, this means that unless you buy Platinum yourself, you are at the mercy of RNG to give you something valuable enough for players to want, which isn't often enough. Overall if you have invested any amount of time leveling something and don't want to spend time leveling it again (which is irksome at low levels and tedious at high levels) you are forced to keep it, or delete it to make room. This can become a bother when weapons are nerfed and/or buffed seemingly at random, making a once-reliable weapon or warframe useless.

    The graphics use most of the common "good" things like DoF, Motion Blur, and Bloom which can actually hinder gameplay and makes it difficult to run without a good computer. In spite of all this you will encounter areas where the textures are inconsistent. Not by any signifigantly noticeable level, but enough that it is noticeable, especially on warframes when players try to customize their colors (additional color sets require Platinum, too. And the basic selection is an off-color rainbow that can be frustrating)

    The controls are what you'd expect from a third person shooter, and not worth mentioning aside from clunky parkour mechanics and melee controls being reduced to a single button press, and melee combos barely go beyond that.

    The story is mostly missing in action, but seems to be slowly fleshed out over updates. However most of it seems to clash with it's own established lore and backstories so take it as you will, but don't take it seriously.

    Sound is simple and satisfactory. Nothing more to say about it.
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  50. Mar 18, 2016
    0
    Devs are hardworking but massive Dbag. They are late at everything even when their server is down & no one can login . They do show upcoming content very early , create hype & cant deliver in time . Just horrible support section. Forum is run by Nazi mods where u cant even talk without buttering the devs even if they do something wrong you are not allowed to point it out or you will beDevs are hardworking but massive Dbag. They are late at everything even when their server is down & no one can login . They do show upcoming content very early , create hype & cant deliver in time . Just horrible support section. Forum is run by Nazi mods where u cant even talk without buttering the devs even if they do something wrong you are not allowed to point it out or you will be banned from forum. Expand
  51. Feb 16, 2019
    3
    The game was good, 3 years ago, really it was. Yes the lack of endgame and the grinding was not heavy. Now the game compared to the old one, look only an excuse to pay wages, bills and give money to the most unprofessional develeopers i ever saw in my life (people going in official stream with beers). Hobos, that dev for beer and food. De deleted trials/raid and ruin the only endgame forThe game was good, 3 years ago, really it was. Yes the lack of endgame and the grinding was not heavy. Now the game compared to the old one, look only an excuse to pay wages, bills and give money to the most unprofessional develeopers i ever saw in my life (people going in official stream with beers). Hobos, that dev for beer and food. De deleted trials/raid and ruin the only endgame for vets, then nerf the old warframes because the new snowflake WF toxic millenials hate how the old warframe are better that the donkeycrap that they sell now in warfame store. Most of vets and founders are like bears, they hibernate until new crap content go online and then they hibernate again. The grindwall now is absolutely unsustainable. You shuld grind and farm for Everthing. Is free to play yes, but also is full of **** microtransactions for everything, slots, warframes, cosmetics EVERYTHING, and they had the GALL to say to Destiny 2 players that WF don't have microtransactions.
    Pro
    - if you have a lot of time to spend with nothing to do is good.
    - graphic is good
    - the game have a lot of content

    Cons
    - grindframe
    - no endgame for players
    - full of **** microtransactions
    - the devs are lazy AF
    - The community manager look like a SJW with issue of angry management
    - The Community director look like a Ding-Dong Chick totally incompetent

    This advice come from a WF vet: stay away from this TRAP

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  52. Jan 3, 2021
    0
    tl;dr - DE needs to stop while they're behind. Schizophrenic game design that is ultimately below average at best and a buggy frustrating mess with a frankly ambitious and hamfisted amount of monetization for it's quality the rest of the time. There is no focus, and there is simply very little of any quality except for it's visuals (which don't matter given the rest of it) and the storytl;dr - DE needs to stop while they're behind. Schizophrenic game design that is ultimately below average at best and a buggy frustrating mess with a frankly ambitious and hamfisted amount of monetization for it's quality the rest of the time. There is no focus, and there is simply very little of any quality except for it's visuals (which don't matter given the rest of it) and the story (they've managed to eek out WELL after the fact) It's free to play, try it, and if you don't like it after a day or two, uninstall it and forget about it, because it doesn't get any better.

    --Longer review ahead--

    The initial review I wrote out for this game, while more comprehensive, exceeded the character limit handily by the time I was anywhere near happy, so I chose to just go with a short(er) summary. There is a phrase that goes "Quit while you're ahead", Digital Extremes should quit while they're so far behind that they disappeared over the horizon.

    I've been playing intermittently since 2012, and from June 2020 to Jan. 2021, I've consumed a large amount of the content the game has had to offer, and I'm noticing a pattern of poorly thought out concepts, with an equally lackluster quality of design and implementation, then never really touched again. They also seem insistent on trying to add open world content, despite the fact that they're currently 0 for 3 attempts, it's all the same timegated, frustrating core systems with a different coat of paint, though I will give Deimos as an environment props for the uniqueness of the zone.

    The end result is, in a word, somewhat schizophrenic and thoroughly just below average in terms of gameplay design, and absolutely abysmal in regards to the near constant bugs and hamfisted monetization.

    The only way I see this turning around is if the playerbase manages to stage some kind of intervention on the absurd level of monetization, the absurd lack of focus and the absurd low quality gameplay design, but I simply don't see this happening. Download it on your platform of choice, try it, and if it's not to your liking after a few days, uninstall it and walk away, because it doesn't get any better. If I had literally any other options for MMORPGs or nearest equivalent, I'd have quit months ago.
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  53. Aug 4, 2019
    4
    Calling this game anything other than GRINDFRAME would be false advertisement. Unfortunately, the developers have chosen grinding as a means of player retention and longevity for the game. There's tedious grind is every aspect of this game. The grind is so inherent that there are community recommended 'meta' locations and loadouts to make the grind less painful. This explains why with allCalling this game anything other than GRINDFRAME would be false advertisement. Unfortunately, the developers have chosen grinding as a means of player retention and longevity for the game. There's tedious grind is every aspect of this game. The grind is so inherent that there are community recommended 'meta' locations and loadouts to make the grind less painful. This explains why with all the popularity and active player base it is still hard to find public squads outside those meta grinding locations and missions irrespective of region or time of day. Good luck finding squad mates for a mission whose rewards do not involve something worth a grind. There are currently only 3 prominent enemy factions with a very limited mission variety (defense, assassination, rescue, spy, survival) which makes the game feel repetitive. Some mission types can be run in endless mode with scaling difficulties but the rewards which are RNG based are awarded on a rotation basis and do not scale with the duration of the mission. So there's not enough motivation in running long endless missions.

    Talking about long endless missions or endurance runs, the damage of primary and secondary weapons do not scale with the difficulty scaling with time. And there are very few frames whose ability damage scale with enemy levels. Since most endurance runs rely on dealing damage with mostly melee weapons it renders primary and secondary weapons useless beyond certain enemy levels.

    The dialogues and voice acting, for the most part, is simply atrocious. I would have lost my sanity if they had not enabled shutting off Ordis in the orbiter. Except for a few NPCs - Lotus, Eudico, Konzu, Onko most interactions feel like conversing with mentally retarded characters. Even a 7 year-old would speak with more maturity than most villains in the game. Makes one wonder if they are being convicted of crimes of a past life. DE's portrayal of their dark side is so shallow that any dark elements associated with a character is imperceptible beyond what is mentioned in the codex or what Lotus tells you about them.

    The only redeeming factor about this game is that there is virtually no paywall blocking any playable content. The premium currency (platinum) which can be purchased for cash can also be earned in-game using the trade system which is something one doesn't come across in most other free2play games. Also almost all grindable aspects of this game can be skipped by spending platinum aka pay2skip model.

    DigitalExtremes has introduced some innovative techniques for ensuring that platinum keeps flowing in the market. There is little doubt that the unique mods - Rivens constitute the bulk of the trade transactions in terms of value. These are in-game tradeable instruments whose stats/worth is linked with the 'disposition' of the associated weapon. Officially disposition is meant to be reflective of the popularity of a weapon but lately it is being manipulated by DE as means to ensure that platinum keeps flowing in the market and so that players do not limit themselves with only a set of rivens for their favorite weapons.

    There are very few avenues that keep this game engaging for veteran players. Whether it is Eidolons (arcane farming), Kuva farming or trading rivens - things start to get boring after a while and it is not uncommon to see veteran players losing interest and abandoning the game after a while.

    Though DE has been releasing new content every six months or so and there are in-game Nightwave events every alternate month but their activities and goals make them feel more like the same repetitive job/chore rather than feel anything refreshing.

    Overall, the RNG based rewards system together with the grind make this game a huge TimeSink, which of course, can be entirely skipped by paying with cash. The popularity and success of this game is true indicator that the Free2Play Pay2Skip model is still sustainable when most AAA game developers are shooting themselves in the foot with their Pay2Win models.
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  54. Apr 15, 2020
    1
    2K hour veteran, the game used to be great when it innovated and responded to what the community wanted. In it's current state content is stagnant, prices are insane for what they unlock, every patch introduces 2x the bugs it fixes...... The amount of work and time that needs to be dedicated to this game is not justified by horrendous endgame, time gated events, **** release schedule.
  55. Jun 2, 2021
    0
    So for people that are gonna say ''play it with friends its fun like that'' or ''play for some more hours it gets fun when you are 6592983 hours into the game'' So I have tried warframe so many times before I even playd it with a friend of mine who plays warframe and I have playd warframe for like 29 hours when does the fun start? but anyways here's my review. Warframe looks like a coolSo for people that are gonna say ''play it with friends its fun like that'' or ''play for some more hours it gets fun when you are 6592983 hours into the game'' So I have tried warframe so many times before I even playd it with a friend of mine who plays warframe and I have playd warframe for like 29 hours when does the fun start? but anyways here's my review. Warframe looks like a cool dungeon mmo but it does so much wrong like grinding if you wanna get new better weapons instead of the legit trash weapons you get at the start you need to grind wich can take hours or days for getting parts for it then when you finally get one you need to wait 1 or 2 real time days for it to get finnished sounds fun.... right???? The only fun it has is doing the run slide jump wich isnt really that fun. everytime I have tried warframe it makes me so **** bored that I rather shoot my foot go to the hostpital and pay the bill like 5 times in a row its more exciting than warframe. Do I care about this game nope, I do give games fair playthrough before saying its good or it **** sucks but this game aint it dude not for me. Expand
  56. Feb 21, 2022
    2
    Mindless grind shooter that can't offer any new experience for you.

    All you have to do in this game is grind. Tiring.
  57. Apr 30, 2013
    1
    The game, for the first started out as very nice, and then suddenly became very boring and repetitive. The three enemy classes are just copy pasted everywhere on repetitive missions.
    The community consists of piss poor people who can't afford hardware upgrades. 8 out of 10 matches you see are horridly laggy to the point where you can just go afk and earn credit/experience rewards. You
    The game, for the first started out as very nice, and then suddenly became very boring and repetitive. The three enemy classes are just copy pasted everywhere on repetitive missions.
    The community consists of piss poor people who can't afford hardware upgrades. 8 out of 10 matches you see are horridly laggy to the point where you can just go afk and earn credit/experience rewards. You quite often see posts like 'omg performance so poor I have dual core/pentium/integrated chipset etc etc'. Horrible scaling with even decent hardware. With several enemies on screen, I with an i7 3930k 4.0Ghz,GTX-Titan see drops to 25fps. Horrible optimization. GPU usage never goes above 20%.
    People say they're the best devs, but they can't even fix an annoying issue like screen shake. They're worse than Crytek in all respects.
    Totally unbalanced weapons, and a weak mod system which requires begging to God and non-stop 24/7 grinding. Meleeing feels weak at best.
    Solo mode spawns soo many enemies on you, and most of the smaller units stunlock you before you can move a muscle.
    I am surprised at people who spent 250$ on a grand master package in which they could have easily afforded a better system. Its seriously laughable.
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  58. Apr 5, 2013
    0
    I found Warframe uninspired, boring, and uncompelling (although the skinner boxes were clearly apparent and undisguised). The UI was horrible. For example, after gaining a level in a weapon, a button related to it would flash even though there was nothing you could do with it if you clicked that button, and clicking it would not make it stop flashing. By default, if you attempted to startI found Warframe uninspired, boring, and uncompelling (although the skinner boxes were clearly apparent and undisguised). The UI was horrible. For example, after gaining a level in a weapon, a button related to it would flash even though there was nothing you could do with it if you clicked that button, and clicking it would not make it stop flashing. By default, if you attempted to start a mission, it would drop you into someone else's already-in-progress mission with no explanation and not tell you what had already happened. There's also no explanation of how to use the UI, or install mods, so you're left to figure that out yourself, and not informed when you're able to do so. If you don't explore all the menus and realize what the numbers mean, you won't realize you can equip your first power (or later powers, although they take exponentially more levels to gain, and I stopped before getting them).

    The first time I tried to start the first mission, it dropped me into one which another player had nearly completed, and completed it without my assistance, and I was left with the impression that the levels were one small deck, lasted about 2 minutes, and had no sensible instructions because that was all I saw until I realized what had happened and started the mission again on single-player (which is still hosted by their servers). They're actually much bigger, and randomly generated, and you do get a minimum of instructions as you start each game, and as it goes on. But if you just join a game you get thrown into it in the middle it doesn't bother to matchmake players and start new games with them, it just throws you into existing ones.

    The enemies, at least for the beginning two or three missions, are all identical, shooting them in the head does not kill them (it does slightly more damage), and yet they were not particularly entertaining to fight and the only real concerns were not to let them get close, and "where the hell are these red balls that keep appearing on me and exploding coming from?"

    I also ran into half a dozen bugs, some extremely frustrating, in the first 5 minutes I tried the game, which is amazing (I ran into none in a week of playing War Thunder, and it too is in beta, and nothing approaching that bug density in PS2's beta). (It got better after I uninstalled the game, waited a couple days, reinstalled it, and tried it again with no other players but the game is supposed to be about playing with other people, not singleplayer, so if it's buggy with other people, that's a problem)

    So: Lack of attention to bugs, terrible UI, no explanation of the UI or how to install mods, powers do not automatically become available as you level up, matchmaking drops you into the middle or end of missions that you have never played before, skinner boxes, non-compelling gameplay, and I did not even mention all the things with gameplay benefits (better weapons, etc) that you can only acquire with real money. Some items can be acquired with in-game points, some can not, and if the amount of 'platinum' currency they give you to start with is equivalent to $10, then those items must be extremely overpriced (because they're more expensive).
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  59. Aug 6, 2014
    0
    Well, I gave this game the chance, two times.

    And to be honest, it is really, really awful. The graphics are okay, the gunplay is horrible and before getting a new frame or weapon I have to farm and farm mats and blueprints, then wait and farm more. This game is just farming 3 different enemies in 5 different level designs with really nothing to do. Repetetive content all over the game.
    Well, I gave this game the chance, two times.

    And to be honest, it is really, really awful. The graphics are okay, the gunplay is horrible and before getting a new frame or weapon I have to farm and farm mats and blueprints, then wait and farm more. This game is just farming 3 different enemies in 5 different level designs with really nothing to do. Repetetive content all over the game. F2P Model is a joke.
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  60. May 27, 2016
    2
    Brilliant animations and excellent level design undermined by a complete lack of concern for entertaining an inexplicably loyal fan base who deserves better treatment than the developers give them. The entire game is designed around grinding, with enough RNG Walls to build a Random House. With every update the game moves closer to a pay-to-progress model, locking away all the things neededBrilliant animations and excellent level design undermined by a complete lack of concern for entertaining an inexplicably loyal fan base who deserves better treatment than the developers give them. The entire game is designed around grinding, with enough RNG Walls to build a Random House. With every update the game moves closer to a pay-to-progress model, locking away all the things needed to move beyond the mid game behind so many RNG walls that payment becomes all but a necessity.

    Unless you are willing to tolerate doing literally the same things over and over again, and accepting that some aspects of the game will only be available if you spend money to acquire them in order to avoid a months long grind, do not play Warframe. There are plenty of games out there whose developers care more about your enjoyment than about lining their own wallets.
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  61. Oct 22, 2013
    0
    No matter how fun or interesting Warframe looks to someone who hasn't played it yet after playing it for over 60 hours its really neither of those. The constant reusing of level layouts will become apparent after a few missions and the MMO style ''kill dozens upon dozens of the same faceless mobs grinding will make the missions seems even more repetitive when you need about a days worthNo matter how fun or interesting Warframe looks to someone who hasn't played it yet after playing it for over 60 hours its really neither of those. The constant reusing of level layouts will become apparent after a few missions and the MMO style ''kill dozens upon dozens of the same faceless mobs grinding will make the missions seems even more repetitive when you need about a days worth of grind plus the manufacturing time which is minimum 12 hours and can get up to days depending on the item on new weapons and warframes.
    And imo the most important aspect of this game that should be highlighted is the fact that the developers are giving hints of making this game P2W. I will explain:
    Warframes are basically the characters you play as each having very different stats and powers to make them unique. They can be bough from the cashshop or farmed from the different bosses in the game which although takes a lot of time I am fine with The interesting part comes in the fact that in the time of writing this review there are 3 warframes with the tag ''Prime'' basically very hard to make versions of existing warframes ).
    One of them is a TIMED EXCLUSIVE BUY ONLY version of Excalibur. Looking at the free ones you would think that the only difference between a prime and non-prime would be looks and polarities bonus stats for equibable items and seeing as polarities have a free version way of getting them you would ask me what the problem was seeing as apparently the only thing a free user would lose is the looks of the Excalibur Prime. Unfortunately that is not true the Excalibur Prime has a higher shield regeneration than its counterpart something which the other 2 FARMABLE PRIMES don't have.
    In conclusion I would recommend anyone thinking of trying this out to keep in mind the extreme repetitiveness of missions both in layout and objectives, the very long time required just to get new weapons and warframes and most importantly the fact that developer has shown signs of giving this game which has PVP MODE items that are buy only which are better than the free versions making it P2W.
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  62. Aug 14, 2013
    0
    The game bills itself as being an "open beta," but it's cash shop is up and running. It would appear the only thing actually in beta is the updater, which keeps myself and others from even playing this game with it's constant, looping failures. The "It's free to play, what do you expect?" argument doesn't actually excuse it of it's shortcomings, and taking the "It's in beta, what do youThe game bills itself as being an "open beta," but it's cash shop is up and running. It would appear the only thing actually in beta is the updater, which keeps myself and others from even playing this game with it's constant, looping failures. The "It's free to play, what do you expect?" argument doesn't actually excuse it of it's shortcomings, and taking the "It's in beta, what do you expect?" argument is even worse with the context that they're willing to charge you for features.

    I haven't even been able to try the game, so maybe it's got some great game play, but from what I've read, I'm not missing out. Watching the update bar fill and reset in the updater has not been a fun experience, and while it's been monetarily free, I would like to demand a refund of my time; this game owes me a small portion of my life back. This review is for a product that literally does not work at all for some people, so it's getting a zero.
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  63. Jan 13, 2014
    4
    Contrary to popular belief Warframe is a Loot game not an action game, the Beta is also a lie.

    RNG reigns supreme here with drop rates for some parts as low as 0.67%, this was before DE encrypted the drop tables and the community could give feed back on such low drop rates, now we have no idea, DE told us that we would be able to view these drop rates in game with the use of their
    Contrary to popular belief Warframe is a Loot game not an action game, the Beta is also a lie.

    RNG reigns supreme here with drop rates for some parts as low as 0.67%, this was before DE encrypted the drop tables and the community could give feed back on such low drop rates, now we have no idea, DE told us that we would be able to view these drop rates in game with the use of their "codex" a half assed pokemon snap mechanic that currently does no such thing a whole major update later.

    The gameplay boils down to mowing down hordes of half witted enemies that all look and feel extremely similar by pressing the #4 button repetitively, all of the levels look and feel extremely similar, and all of the objectives boil down to go from point A to point B or stand and hold point Z. All of the bosses are bullet sponges and pose very little threat to players. Playing with others is also a let down as everyone just rushes towards to end of the level, there is no need to stay and fight or look around. As a co op game there are also zero co op elements aside from a few doors you need 2 people to open. no end game what so ever, a half assed tutorial that will leave many if not all new players scrambling around in the dark and finally grind walls after grind walls
    an example of one that was given another one
    DE-"we get it the grind and RNG need toned down"
    adds more grind and RNG in the next update

    play levels for derelict blue prints, blueprints then can used to visit the derelict level (a rehash of the void levels) once there you play said levels for the boss blueprint which may or may not drop the parts you need leaving you back at the start
    or
    the derelict vaults
    play mission for void keys (gives you access to the void levels) use these keys to make "dragon keys"
    dragon keys open vault doors by give the player a massive debuff depending on the key crafted
    less HP
    less shields
    less movement speed (-75%)
    or less weapon damage
    with 4 keys which one opens the vault?
    RNG will decide what vault spawns in your mission that you've crafted yet another key to access
    lets review

    key for the derelict
    void key for the vault key
    pray you have the right key or waste time doing a mission with a huge debuff

    at the time of writing updates have been adding more weapons (re-skins with different stats mostly) and more poorly planned "events" the last one consisted of players taking pictures of plants
    the plants needed to "win" the event required a rare plant RNG again it also required 4 players to have the same type of plant juice ( rarest one) to win, this lead to many players trolling others by putting in the wrong one there by destroying everyone elses plants
    this also left solo players unable to win the event regardless of the SOLO option
    DE later put out a hotfix that allowed solo players to win by doing the work of all 4 players previously
    take 4x the pictures of the rare plants (1 pic per plant)

    DE does not seem to know what they are doing, aside from the art and style of the game I found very little to love as time went on and I began to see where this game was heading (nowhere)

    fun gameplay is not found here
    stay away

    [check box if your review contains spoilers]
    there's also no story or lore
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  64. Feb 21, 2014
    0
    Digital Extremes has created something that's often genuinely fun to play, and given the cost of entry, Warframe's well worth a try if you're in the mood for something different.

    DE got 200 people working on this, yet they decided to A. kill end game. B. Allow exploits without consequence even though the community is outrageous. C. Game currency will cost your dinner + lunch.
  65. Jan 17, 2017
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 300+ Часов в этой игре. Сначала она была действительно увлекательной, но потом наскучила до отвращения. Бессмысленная система рангов, при моём 16 ранге не за чем развиваться далее, так как оружие можно использовать любое. Постоянные баги, которые не решают месяцами. Уже три недели иногда зависает интерфейс. Основных варфреймов 5-6 остальные не нужны, зефир, мэг, инарос ими вообще ни кто не играет. Фарм кредитов которых уже несколько миллионов. Покупка прайм модов и поиск эндо для их прокачки. То есть в данный момент необходимо заходить в игру для прохождения вылазки, фарма эндо и прокачки очередной карточки. Вообще скукота. Оружие нужно что бы прокачать ранг, пользуешься 5-6 топ оружием которое получил в первые две недели после регистрации. Задумка хорошая, но реализации никакой. Нужно больше интересных фич для игры. Пока это всего навсего унылая "программулинка" на несколько месяцев.. Expand
  66. Jul 30, 2019
    0
    The game is a good game with good lore and has a ride or die fans playing supporting the devs it isn't complicated but if your a below average gamer this could have a lot of problems with your play through but that is mostly all of the problems you can counter besides the fact that there is the keyboard not working glitch then if your a pc player you are done for unless you are luckyThe game is a good game with good lore and has a ride or die fans playing supporting the devs it isn't complicated but if your a below average gamer this could have a lot of problems with your play through but that is mostly all of the problems you can counter besides the fact that there is the keyboard not working glitch then if your a pc player you are done for unless you are lucky but aside all of that you get a easy to run game with gorgeous graphics even on the lowest quality that works fluently with a big solar system to search every little fun activity while getting to be a beefy boy eating bullets as if it was candy. TL:DR play it unless you are bad at gaming Expand
  67. Apr 23, 2017
    0
    No customer support
    broken/bugged quest
    unplayable
    p2w

    honestly this could be the best game ever but it's been ruined by the ptw trend. maps are also needlessly frustrating confusing long.
  68. Nov 29, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don't waste your time by playing this **** game. Because this game doesn't have any good logic and the makers are illiterate.For example, they don't know what 'ARMOR' in this game means or each mission has enemies with many levels for example in a mission with level 15-20 during the mission, you will find level 22,25 or 28 that is bad for a new player and warframe's and e.t.c.They just make this game to giving money from you.I don't say it's a bad game, no. it's a good game.But the makers did it wrong Expand
  69. Mar 28, 2020
    0
    the devs are horrible! items i bought with real money was deleted from the game, when i write support about the bug ask for return of item or a refund they say no to both, when i complain about the lack of support they ban my account and bans my ability to talk to support. this is after i spend 40 bucks on founders package
  70. Jun 21, 2019
    1
    When I first did sink many hours into the game, I couldn't think of anything really wrong with it, since its free.
    Its free, so all the grinding is excusable, right?
    Especially since the incredibly fun and fluid gameplay IS the grind, right? This couldn't be further away from the truth, unfortunately! While the combat and movement is something I've never experienced before, your
    When I first did sink many hours into the game, I couldn't think of anything really wrong with it, since its free.
    Its free, so all the grinding is excusable, right?
    Especially since the incredibly fun and fluid gameplay IS the grind, right?

    This couldn't be further away from the truth, unfortunately!

    While the combat and movement is something I've never experienced before, your progress and fun gameplay comes to a grinding-halt when you are stopped dead in the tracks everytime.

    Planets and story-bits are blocked away behind a tedious wall like Mastery-Ranks, requirements for junctions and waiting-lines for neccessary gear.

    Literally TONS of content are locked away from you, put behind artificial progression-blockers
    (need Item A to enter Planet B but to get Item A you need Component XYZ that can only be farmed at E and E is unaccessible since you need the Junction for C).

    Its simply no fun to open the Wiki and siff through forums only to progress through the game.

    You can waste infinitive hours doing "missions" that don't progress your game. You can then be forced into upgrading weapons that are **** just because another artificial progression-blocker requires you to do so.

    The goal of aquiring the Warframes you really want is an extremely frustrating task. Bosses you killed for one sort of Frameparts, can appear again in a truly unfair form that require you to do boss-fights that are zero fun
    or they are unavailable due to inaccessible Planets!

    You can literally waste up to 1000 hours and not even achieve your desired loadout!
    And to get to this number of wasted hours in this game, you'll start confused, lost and slapped in the face with the interface and deliberatley weird progression-system (I've never encountered a game thats so hostile for beginners. While the community is great and tries to help you where they can, the interface and "Campaign" is deliberately confusing, bad designed and unintuitive!).

    Then add limited inventory-space (that can be upgraded with real money of course!) and waiting-queues for building your gear (again: Can be speed up with real money!).
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  71. Mar 31, 2014
    2
    To me this game feels way too incomplete for the amount of demand they're making in terms of money. Feels like a terrible Freemium to wait Cash grab for anyone who seriously has time(or cash) to burn. If you don't have the time to dedicate to this so called "Free2play" game then stay far FAR away from it. because in it's current state it limits players way too much with pay walls and timeTo me this game feels way too incomplete for the amount of demand they're making in terms of money. Feels like a terrible Freemium to wait Cash grab for anyone who seriously has time(or cash) to burn. If you don't have the time to dedicate to this so called "Free2play" game then stay far FAR away from it. because in it's current state it limits players way too much with pay walls and time walls galore... Expand
  72. May 6, 2014
    1
    While Warframe may sound like a good idea the stages and fights are often repetitive and after a certain amount of time get old. I could never get into the game and the repetitiveness will, after a certain point, make you want to burn your PC just to be rid of the game.
  73. May 15, 2014
    4
    It has some good points and more than a few bad points. It can be very repetitious, very bad for lag in game they allow setting match making ping to UNLIMITED which sucks and is a very big reason for the serious lag issues I think, default is 400ms which is marginal as far as I am concerned. I set my end to 200ms and it helps but it does not seem to prevent others with higher levels fromIt has some good points and more than a few bad points. It can be very repetitious, very bad for lag in game they allow setting match making ping to UNLIMITED which sucks and is a very big reason for the serious lag issues I think, default is 400ms which is marginal as far as I am concerned. I set my end to 200ms and it helps but it does not seem to prevent others with higher levels from coming into your game. I monitor ping in game on my end constantly my ping is usually less than 100ms at all time and less then 25ms most times but still have very bad lag issues sometimes. Every update brings major changes which is good but many are less than desirable. Good points are most everything in game can be had by grinding and no money, the wall running, special moves and things are fun, mod selections are good but every update they seem to change and do not do the same thing, this is still in beta so some of that is to be expected. Expand
  74. Jul 1, 2016
    1
    I used to really love this game, now its gone way downhill, first of all its boring and i cant play a single game without the game loosing connection (my WiFi stays on and everything) the game just takes me back to the menu FOR NO REASON so i cant progress at all because it doesn't let you keep anything if you get kicked out of the game because warframe network sucks
  75. Jun 16, 2020
    3
    Super repetitive and super microtransaction heavy. I played for about 200 hours. It is like the same five maps over and over again with just different objectives.
  76. Feb 2, 2020
    0
    Love Love Love warframe!! i have been playing for years and at no point have i reached a paywall. in-game currency is available through the ingame economy. everything has some value to it, farmed 10 prime parts that you don't need? sell them to players for platinum (in-game currency). the devs are always listening to the fan base, and will remove any feature that could be abused for realLove Love Love warframe!! i have been playing for years and at no point have i reached a paywall. in-game currency is available through the ingame economy. everything has some value to it, farmed 10 prime parts that you don't need? sell them to players for platinum (in-game currency). the devs are always listening to the fan base, and will remove any feature that could be abused for real life currency, (example, repair drones. 50 platinum in market. removed as it felt to much like a paywall. repair drones now added to drop table for missions) i am very much looking forward to when they implement the platform save system. Expand
  77. Jan 7, 2021
    0
    This game is the absolute best definition of all time put in it it waste time. Good experience if u stop it after 200 hour, after that wall of grind. Gameplay is excellent like artistic direction ost and lot of other stuff. But lot of flow never fixe. The game is still in beta and some bug are now documentate since 6year and not fixe. The dev once trully amazing by listening playerThis game is the absolute best definition of all time put in it it waste time. Good experience if u stop it after 200 hour, after that wall of grind. Gameplay is excellent like artistic direction ost and lot of other stuff. But lot of flow never fixe. The game is still in beta and some bug are now documentate since 6year and not fixe. The dev once trully amazing by listening player feedback and working with the comunity to make a great product has done a big 180 and now it s like it or shut up. They have a big shield to adress critics and it s 10 iq lvl. Their teory is close to u can t critics what i said or do cause like any other devs in the industry (they kind of fart higher than their ass) we are public personality and it s harassment and hate speech. Funny coming from a chineese own company who dont hesite to ban player based on personal opinion on private chanel, guess that way is way more ez than adressing the real critic. They are a lot of mini drama that just remembered playebase that warframe was such a good game when dev careabout the comunity and wasnt like auto congratulate themeselves on every ocasion when evryone can look at the situation and learn what to not do when u have a big game with one of the most invest comunity. U see a trend pretty clear about critics of this game. 50 hour or less people are lost but see a huge potential and overall have a good time. 200 hour and less the game is just the best game of the world. 500 hour or more the game is a veritable purge it s hurt to play. Why, simply because grind. The grind is absolutely broken and thge game willl ask you later day of grind for nothing valuable, int the same time your are so overpowered that u can kill an entire map of enemy with one button, that s kill the fun and the challenge. And warframe without fun or challenge it s just grind. The last 2year grind has increase a lot and their solution was to sell booster for evrything.The people saying this is a free2play done rright never play it enough to see his flaw.Also they are much more quicker to nerf stuff that hacve been in the game since 5 year cause all they want from an event is the investing time, and no my time has more vallue that what s become a pill of garbage. Also at a time where genshin impact can have all their player in the same universe warframe is out on 6 plateforme all cut from each other. Also the engine was well optimized has only bethesda like concurent about who is making teh game with the older engine. Expand
  78. Oct 9, 2020
    0
    When it comes to take your money, the developers are the best...

    But when it comes to game support, it's an absolute joke... Not only they aren't doing anything to fix problems (a 5 minute issues need at least 3 months to get resolved), they are making things worst and are attacking players. In-game cosmetics cost is such a shame : for the cost of every armor in the game, you
    When it comes to take your money, the developers are the best...

    But when it comes to game support, it's an absolute joke...

    Not only they aren't doing anything to fix problems (a 5 minute issues need at least 3 months to get resolved), they are making things worst and are attacking players.

    In-game cosmetics cost is such a shame : for the cost of every armor in the game, you would have a space marine cosplay armor from anyone on Esty !

    Gameplay was good, but repetitive,
    Story was original.
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  79. Jan 1, 2021
    1
    I rate this game as a whole and not the experience I had with it. The beginning parts of the game are alright. I'd say moderate enjoyment the first couple planets you explore through. The big issue with the game is end game. There is no pvp system really in place to make the game fun. There is a pvp system but in the same way that Diablo 3 has a pvp system. Power balancing is an enormousI rate this game as a whole and not the experience I had with it. The beginning parts of the game are alright. I'd say moderate enjoyment the first couple planets you explore through. The big issue with the game is end game. There is no pvp system really in place to make the game fun. There is a pvp system but in the same way that Diablo 3 has a pvp system. Power balancing is an enormous problem with the game. If that sorta thing doesn't Phase you then it's a pretty fun game. Personally, I really detest the power difference in mele and ranged weapons when you get to the end game. End game could have had some sort of elites or something interesting. Instead we get........ Value scaling. If you like grinding endlessly for marginally better gear so an eternity later you can bump up the difficulty a touch then this is the game for you. The game was buggy as all hell when I played it in 2013, and it's buggy as hell now. When I picked it up again recently I'd play maybe 6 hours a day for a while and I'd have the game break maybe once a day. After 7 years of time to patch things I'm completely shocked some of these bugs persist. I had to do a boring, unfun long story line quest only to have it glitch me to the start of the quest. Over an hour of tedious mind numbing crap I could care less about. That is actually where I put down the game for good because I opened a support ticket and they told me "sorry that happens, you'll just have to complete it again." lmao, no thanks I'll just stop playing and supporting the game. This is a game you will really want to like because it has parts of it that are so, so good. To me though that is completely, and totally worthless when there's no drive for it all. The guns have major balance issues of total trash to overpowered as hell. In the end you are grinding a resource to re roll items and that's it. Well, that and unlocking cosmetics which I really have no interest in. They could have had raids. They could have had pvp grounds, or clan pvp's. They could have had some actual point to the end of the game. They could have fixed some of the bugs that just ruin any immersion to be found in the game. On the first level you will fight 3 factions with like 7 or 8 units per faction. And then you will see and kill those same units for the rest of the game. There will be maybe 1 variation of a unit on some levels but that's it. It gets, extreeeeeeeeemly boring doing so. I would have loved some enemy modifiers like double damage, fast, explode on death, anything. Instead I'm doing at the 100 hour mark that i was at the 10 hour mark with just different values scaled. Seeing how little has been done over the years I'll give it 2, maybe 3 more years till the entire community get sick of the same **** for years with minimal changes. Releasing more characters insnt really helpful when each new one further breaks any sense of balance. They definitely follow the "newer is stronger" model to get their stuff sold. The store to me is an obscene joke. They will offer $40 for a warframe and some cosmetics when you can get $10 worth of platinum and build the same thing for effectively $0.10 to $3. Either people dont know they can do this or are lazy to get the stuff to make it but $40 for a frame and some cosmetics is pretty rediculous. All in all I feel as disappointed as getting to the Diablo 3 end game because if you know anything about that, it's virtually exactly the same. Spend endless hours getting better 5% at a time until 3 eons later you have some stacked gear so you can kill pointless mobs at light speed. What a waste of potential. Im glad they have the money and resources for a convention each year (tennocon) but not to fix bugs that erase an hour of gameplay (in a very frustrating spot) for no reason what so ever. They just give a shrug to the situation and move on to releasing the next big broken frame to sell. Save your time, save your money (the game is pay 2 play, not pay 2 win and the model isn't too bad) and go find something else. You will get hooked and inevitably be left with disappointment and regret of time wasted. Expand
  80. Jan 1, 2021
    0
    The gameplay is really weird. I have spent my whole 10 hours on the game fighting the camera and also the story is really boring.
  81. Apr 14, 2021
    3
    What developers that make games today don't understand is the player and what players want in genereal, let me elaborate:

    -You need to set up a core mechanic that is fun by itself and requires nothing added to it to be fun, then add things to make it even more fun, then add things on top of that to make for a deep and interesting experience. What this game is, is kind of the opposite
    What developers that make games today don't understand is the player and what players want in genereal, let me elaborate:

    -You need to set up a core mechanic that is fun by itself and requires nothing added to it to be fun, then add things to make it even more fun, then add things on top of that to make for a deep and interesting experience.

    What this game is, is kind of the opposite of that, its a huge sea that is the depth of a puddle. There is nothing in this game (doesnt matter if its f2p or paid) that is worth your time, its simply the cookie clicker effect, grind so you can grind better, which is a paradox because you will never grind enough. Or you can pay money to get stuff, but for what reason?
    Why buy anything in this game when it never leads to anything, it simply exists to waste your time!

    It was fun at first, i played for 50 hours total, i stopped when realized that its heading nowhere.

    -You see, to make a grind worth it you need to have rewards that are actually interesting and not only useful to grind better or to kill stronger enemies, which is also a stupid thing since enemies level with you, so whats the difference between killing a level 1 enemy as a level 1 player and level 200 enemy as lvl 200 player?

    WoW did something cool by allowing an open world and PLAYER CONFILCT, players grinded to be stronger versus players or to be able to acquire better loot to sell to players, now that is a better reason to grind.
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  82. Apr 29, 2021
    0
    The worst developers in the world , more than 30 and the invite system is destroyed and no one do something ,, Minecraft dev much better
  83. Aug 8, 2023
    0
    The gameplay quickly becomes repetitive and lacks variety, with missions feeling like endless grindfests. The story is convoluted and poorly presented, leaving players confused and uninterested. The graphics, while initially impressive, suffer from frequent glitches and optimization issues. The game's microtransaction system is aggressively pushed, creating a pay-to-win environment thatThe gameplay quickly becomes repetitive and lacks variety, with missions feeling like endless grindfests. The story is convoluted and poorly presented, leaving players confused and uninterested. The graphics, while initially impressive, suffer from frequent glitches and optimization issues. The game's microtransaction system is aggressively pushed, creating a pay-to-win environment that undermines the overall experience. Expand
  84. Oct 12, 2020
    0
    The game has way too much repetitive grinding, boss fights aren't really that fun because most of the time you're just unloading mags while spamming run, slide and jumping over and over making it feel like a shore. The game makes you literally wait real life days for items to finish crafting, even for items used to progress the story since the creators of this game just want to make youThe game has way too much repetitive grinding, boss fights aren't really that fun because most of the time you're just unloading mags while spamming run, slide and jumping over and over making it feel like a shore. The game makes you literally wait real life days for items to finish crafting, even for items used to progress the story since the creators of this game just want to make you pay as much as possible by making allot of things as tedious as possible. I would understand if its just a one time wait for crafting one quest item, but they make you craft multiple items and forcing you to wait more and more as you progress the game and also charging you more since you need more currency that can only be obtained by paying IRL money or grinding for rare items and trading those items to other players for currency bought by them. The world and maps are pretty bland with them being too open and having very little inside each room or area. The game is pretty buggy and the hit boxes don't make sense since you have to sometimes aim your crosshair lower than where the actual enemy is since the projectiles sometimes doesn't hit. The frames are one of the only good part of this game even tho the game lets players easily access it by paying for it making the game extremely Play 2 Win. I would honestly not recommend this game to anyone since this is basically like an EA game but worse and I would like to encourage the reader to think twice before dedicating hours into this game since the more time you play the more the game will demand you to pay. Expand
  85. Mar 24, 2021
    1
    oyundaki en güçlü silah kredi kartı
    Oyun çok kötü online tabanlı aksiyon oyunu mu oyunu online olmadan bitiremiyonuz berbat
  86. Jun 1, 2023
    1
    Used to like the game. But I recently got back and got forced through hours of "the new war" quest **** Dont want to play the quest? You can just exit the game - and thats what I did. Exit and uninstall. This **** ruined a really nice game. Would give a 0/10. That 1 point is just pure compassion for the good time the game once used to bring.
  87. May 7, 2023
    0
    Hey, you! Yes, you! Do you like generic sci fi stuff, tons of grinding, microtransactions and repetitive gameplay? So this is the game for YOU, jackass.
    The fact that they managed to make me waste more than 40 hours on this sponge is remarkable.
  88. Mar 27, 2023
    0
    very aggressive and toxic agenda, no respect for themselves, they behave like a colony of the usa
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Oct 2, 2020
    70
    Warframe is a shockingly polished free-to-play action game that boasts great visuals, gameplay, and replay value. Unfortunately, grinding and odd design choices bog down the late-game experience.
  2. 80
    Play Warframe. Play it for more than a few hours, preferably with friends, and keep an open mind into doing some third-party research to straighten out some of these systems. Warframe takes so much of what makes ARPG’s addictive, and rounds it out with more polish and depth than most its competitors on the current games market. If the hooks aren’t deeply embedded by then, maybe something this in-depth isn’t for you.
  3. Sep 11, 2014
    77
    The idea with the Tamagotchi-space-dogs is already absolutely amazing.