I'm now in the process of catching up on what's happening in the community, watching Rahetalius, Flynn and Brozime and it's really, really sad what has become of DE. They went into a total lockdown siege mentality. "Everyone criticising us is toxic evil hater, our game is perfect and all we're gonna talk about in our dev streams are fashion frames, cuddly puppies and fluffy thoughts."
To be fair, Rahetalius has probably been DE's harshest critic and they haven't tried to punish him for it, (petty twitter shit excluded) or voided his status as a partner. I don't think they’re insulated, or at least not entirely, against criticism like his. It’s just that they don’t do much when they get it since they've made their business model revolve around hyping people for the next "great" thing.
For a long time, DE’s modus operandi with their larger content drops has been; take an element from another game and make a husk of said element, drop it in such an incredibly unpolished state to the point where almost all the community is in an uproar, and then make a few bugfixes and do a some tweaks then promptly forget it exists and repeat the process again. And with whatever the Plains of Duviri are, it seems like the next big thing is going to be along the same lines. It’s almost as though DE themselves don’t want to do Warframe anymore and instead of making another game, they’re cramming whatever project they wanted to do into their cash cow.
Just out of curiosity, anyone playing Destiny? How does Bungie go about expanding content and designing the end-game? Do they also keep adding irrelevant stuff that nobody asked for in a looter shooter like Archwings or space ships? And what does the end-game looks like?
I'd say one of the only things Destiny has a trail of stuff like Archwing sitting in the gutter and that they've largely remained focused on the core gameplay experience, for better or worse I suppose
I'd echo a lot of what DeLarge said and also add this; being a freetoplayer in Destiny is a form of second class citizenship. Mercifully they made their older and lower quality expansion packs free, but the cutoff to content is exactly at the expansion pack that is even remotely worth your time; Forsaken. There is no player economy so not only is there no free path to getting the other expansion packs, you can also expect to grind out your ass for the items of yesteryear that have most likely been nerfed to oblivion. Even if you were interested in Forsaken, Bungie's been making colossal fuckup after colossal fuckup and I'd urge you to not encourage them with any kind of purchase.
I do think the gunplay and the enemies are good; better than Warframe I dare say. If you ever want to try it out of morbid curiosity, I'd suggest treating it like a singleplayer game and dropping it as soon as it requires even an modicum over too much of your time.
