As a player who has actually played for a long time (MR28, almost 29 before I quit, all frames, including Primes except Excal Prime), and who has spent money into the game for Tennogen, I have to say that at the end of the day, I really cannot recommend this game to anyone out there who seeks to play it. On the surface, the developers seem to be nice people who listen to the feedback of the players, and there seems to be a relatively welcoming community free of toxicity. But look past this gilded surface, and you start to see the problems that actually plague this game.

Firstly, it is obvious enough that the developers are trying to market this game in a revolving door fashion. You go in, play, get everything, get bored and quit. The crap about "Fashionframe is end game" and "just play your 3 hour survival for challenge", it is really a terrible way to retain players as there's no tangible reward for attempting to perform above and beyond. You reach the end of the content soon and the game soon turns into nothing but endless grind to upgrade many weapons which are just slightly adjusted stat tweaks of each other in different skins. The Devs do not care about long time players who have put many hours of effort into the game, as an actual fact. They want these players out of the game and all the plat and other bought resources to rot away in their accounts, so plat and rivens are taken out of circulation, while hoping new players will come in and pay.

Secondly, the way the devs devalue player efforts by making excuses that the game is always in Beta and the Riven System is subject to change. Rivens are as a whole an end game chase for the bored players who have nothing to do. It gives them something to farm for, in the form of Kuva, to always try and push the stats a bit higher. But when dispositions and adjusted, all the hard work put by veterans into the rivens vanish over♥♥♥ht. Weapons should never be balanced by popularity, but by actual power. Also, when frames or guns which are released strong to attract plat sales, but later nerfed to make way for the new release, it's no different from power creep, except disguised. You don't make the new deal stronger, you make everything weaker. The frame reworks as well, forcing players to keep up with forma use as a poor effort at player retention, it isn't something that should be welcome.

Thirdly, much of the content turns out either to not cater to the player base, or ridiculously buggy and unplayable. The Story Quests turned out to be full of problems on release, while game modes like Arbitrations and Sanctuary Onslaught were plagued by similar problems. There is no pre-release testing by a proper team of testers, and instead they depend on players testing the game. Do you all see the logic in this? People are paid to test games in general as Quality Assurance, but why are we as players paying either with time or money to test the game for Digital Extremes? Rather than enjoy working content, why must we earn working content? The obsession with pumping out new content also leaves many old pieces of content unfixed and buggy, with the logic that they will eventually get around to it. It's been years, though, and the only things they fixed were "wonky calculations" that allowed weapons to do more damage than they were supposed to. Or rather, nerfs are hidden as bug fixes ... while some bugs are simply turned into features. Digital Extremes only fixes what is convenient to them to fix, not what needs fixing.

Fourthly, the community of Warframe isn't as nice as its silvered surface would suggest. Many within blindly defend the choices of Digital Extremes, but constitute a minority who drown out the voices of the other players who may have suggestions to improve the game. They only believe that Digital Extremes can be right, and they decide that they may dictate how the game will be played. It doesn't require a visit to the Warframe Forums to know of this. You'll spot the white k♥♥♥hts shouting down all other players wherever there is criticism of the game.

You may just be saying I'm some player who is salty about my toys being taken away, but I counter this by saying that I paid for the toys with my time and money. You can as well if you were willing to put in effort, and I am sure many long time players have the same experience as me. As a long time player of the game, who has provided steadfast support over quite a long span of the game's existence, I believe I have at least the right to voice my opinion about what's going wrong with the game and why I left the game.