Warframe is a great game thatโs ruined by an unmoderated, toxic community and and a huge multiplayer problem for 9 years (since the game was first released).
There is no moderation, no accountability, and no respect from Digital Extremes towards the player base, and they refuse to fix the biggest problem this game has ever, and always has had: host disconnect. Want to play online for more than 5 minutes without losing all of your rewards when someone wants to leave early? Not the game for you.
This has been a problem for almost a decade. Bring it up on a DE moderated thread and youโll be banned. DE has never acknowledges this as a problem and still refuse to. This completely ruins ALL online interactions on this game. And it isnโt fun to play solo. DE will ban you for saying trap in any context, but wonโt do anything about racial slurs. Homophobia and misogyny are free game here as well. Petty elitism is encouraged by DE and this has all gotten so much worse with Warframeโs most recent content release, The Duviri Paradox.
A letdown that basically forces players to play together in a mode called The Circuit, where rewards take forever to earn and are just about impossible to keep if you play online, which 99% of players have to do if they donโt want to spend more than 20 minutes a round getting poultry rewards.
DE regularly has ban waves where hundreds of people will be permanently banned out of nowhere. After all, why would a terrible company like DE run proper investigations into policy violations? It would be easier to ban everyone who MIGHT be a hacker. Furthermore, itโs just DEโs brand to make the player base more miserable.
Having no moderation and having a terrible multiplayer connection system has gotten 10 times worse after cross-play was added. Every chat is filled with garbage people, every online mission liable to disconnect you from a mission after 5 minutes (minimum run time for most missions). Nearly a decade of the same problems and DE decided to combine all of the platforms problems into one while releasing alleged new content that forces players into miserable, high stress missions where someone is always going to be unhappy enough to leave, disconnecting EVERYONE else. No rewards, no money, no resources. Just disappointment and hopelessness.
The fact that these 2 problems could so easily be fixed yet have never even been mentioned just goes to show how generous Iโm being when I say this game is 2 stars. It has lots of content that a solo player would enjoy. But this isnโt really a solo game. Itโs Grundy, and Grundy games are best played with friends, which amounts to wasted effort of Warframe.
2 stars. Until that score improves, Iโd recommend Trove. A lot like Warframe except the community is nice, online play is effortless, and thereโs a lot more stuff to grind. That last one can be seen as good or bad depending on the person. I personally like the grind to godhood in a game.