Warframe was one of my favorite games back in 2014, and stayed that way for literal years. What I liked about Warframe when I played it the most is kind of gone now. I can't say if I would have ended up dropping it from burnout anyways or not, because it is not really the same game anymore.

The good:
• Visuals are good, even on lower end hardware. My dated office laptop can boot the game and get an acceptable framerate without looking like ♥♥♥♥.
• There are some entertaining quests, equating to a few hours of story content. Most of the main story ones are decent to good, although the story does get convoluted as it goes.

Mixed:
• Monetization is not as aggressive as with some other free to play games, but it has been getting worse over time. Since I started playing almost a decade ago it has changed a very noticeable amount.
• The serious and mysterious atmosphere that first drew me into the game has long since been replaced by one that does not take itself seriouly and continually adds and resolves mysteries that lack the cohesion needed to draw me between them. Part of this is a consequence of content island design. Attempts to add "cute and funny" stories and content along with some subversion of expectations and directional shifts have also contributed. Only traces of what drew me in remain, with more removal and dilution with each major update. The "Starchart 1.0" music almost perfectly encapsulates the atmosphere that drew me in, and in a twist of irony even it has been replaced with something new.

The bad:
• Power creep is a near constant factor, although there is not much in the way of endgame content for it to matter. This does have downsides when old weapon mods are nerfed because a new weapon or mod made a combination too powerful. Some of my most entertaining off-meta weapon builds have been rendered useless from this.
• Crowd control abilities used to serve a purpose, but many enemies now partially or fully ignore them. Even if not for that the meta has shifted so far that there is no good reason to do anything other than kill an enemy as fast as possible.
• Some content is being made or rebalanced like it was for for a MOBA, which Warframe is very much not.
• The player trade market has been trashed with the addition of tradable ARPG style rolled stat items. The trade chat is flooded with almost constant trade offers just for those things. Everything else has seen substantial value drops.
• In the last two or three years real world politics have been pushed into the game. I play games for fun, I don't want to see controversial political messaging.
• Tile sets that had entertaining defensive options have been overhauled and things that made those tactics work were removed. New tile sets have been designed to prevent similar
tactics from the start.
• Lots of content is promised and shown off but is then cut, simplified, over hyped, or not delivered.

At this point I would recommend Payday 2, Space Hulk: Death Wing, Shadow Warrior 2, or Killing Floor 2 for a good co-op shooter experience.

Warframe was one of my favorite games back in 2014, and stayed that way for literal years. What I liked about Warframe when I played it the most is kind of gone now. I can't say if I would have ended up dropping it from burnout anyways or not, because it is not really the same game anymore. The good: • Visuals are good, even on lower end hardware. My dated office laptop can boot the game and get an acceptable framerate without looking like shit. • There are some entertaining quests, equating to a few hours of story content. Most of the main story ones are decent to good, although the story does get convoluted as it goes. Mixed: • Monetization is not as aggressive as with some other free to play games, but it has been getting worse over time. Since I started playing almost a decade ago it has changed a very noticeable amount. • The serious and mysterious atmosphere that first drew me into the game has long since been replaced by one that does not take itself seriouly and continually adds and resolves mysteries that lack the cohesion needed to draw me between them. Part of this is a consequence of content island design. Attempts to add "cute and funny" stories and content along with some subversion of expectations and directional shifts have also contributed. Only traces of what drew me in remain, with more removal and dilution with each major update. The [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCYsMseuh0]"Starchart 1.0"[/url] music almost perfectly encapsulates the atmosphere that drew me in, and in a twist of irony even it has been replaced with something new. The bad: • Power creep is a near constant factor, although there is not much in the way of endgame content for it to matter. This does have downsides when old weapon mods are nerfed because a new weapon or mod made a combination too powerful. Some of my most entertaining off-meta weapon builds have been rendered useless from this. • Crowd control abilities used to serve a purpose, but many enemies now partially or fully ignore them. Even if not for that the meta has shifted so far that there is no good reason to do anything other than kill an enemy as fast as possible. • Some content is being made or rebalanced like it was for for a MOBA, which Warframe is very much not. • The player trade market has been trashed with the addition of tradable ARPG style rolled stat items. The trade chat is flooded with almost constant trade offers just for those things. Everything else has seen substantial value drops. • In the last two or three years real world politics have been pushed into the game. I play games for fun, I don't want to see controversial political messaging. • Tile sets that had entertaining defensive options have been overhauled and things that made those tactics work were removed. New tile sets have been designed to prevent similar tactics from the start. • Lots of content is promised and shown off but is then cut, simplified, over hyped, or not delivered. At this point I would recommend Payday 2, Space Hulk: Death Wing, Shadow Warrior 2, or Killing Floor 2 for a good co-op shooter experience.