Now How Would You All Feel If This Game Was Acquired By Nexon Or Ea Or Kog Or Even Gameforge Or Mayhaps Gamersfirst?

[Ahuras]

Nexon - game becomes entirely pay-2-win. Even getting pieces for new frames is now behind a paywall. certain maps and mission types now only allowed for players who've achieved a certain 'rank' which is determined by how much real life money they've spent on their account.

 

Electronic Arts - game stays the same for a year. then everyone on the staff is quietly let go, while EA keeps the license. time passes then warframe is reintroduced as a pay-to-win mobile app game or as a futuristic shooter with many sequels. after being received poorly EA kills warframe for good and never use the franchise for anything ever again, citing that gamers are entitled spoiled brats and/or are homophobic when people complain about their actions. years later ignorant kids will defend the company because they don't know any better. (oddly, thats happening in this very thread).

 

Valve - game updates slow down considerably. after a year warframe gets a massive facelift, now cleaned of its console brethren's tethers. afterwards warframe only receives one update a year. its a massive update, and mostly cosmetics, and often several gigs in size. eventually the Valve team grow bored of warframe (like many of their games) and move onto something else. Warframe is then handed off to a team of inept interns who proceed to spend the next few years ruining it and the game becomes full of children, bronies, and other scum who drive away whatever veterans are left.

 

Three Rings - constant free updates, unfortunately ALL cosmetics and holiday events. no gameplay content is ever added again. weapons and warframe balance is never touched upon ever again. after a year or so the main 'creative head' of the staff mysteriously quits to pursue more indie prospects. warframe dies a slow agonizing f2p death.

 

HI-REZ Studios - Warframe gets all the frames and weapons rebalanced. every update brimming with fun new content. game is at its absolute peak for several months. Hi-Rez then get worried the game isnt easy enough for new players, casuals, and babies and introduce a patch to let people get early advantages. the patch immediately ruins all the hard work their previous patches did and the game is forever ruined. everyone leaves in droves.

 

Riot Games - every moderately tricky or difficult enemy, map, or obstacle in warframe is quickly removed for being too hard, too 'toxic', and making newbies cry. warframe quickly evolves into "baby's first 3rd person action game" and becomes the most popular game on the internet. sadly everyone playing it are now idiots and everyone who was good at the game jump ship immediately.

 

Gamers First - warframe now has an official cash shop full of nothing but cosmetics. this is the last update warframe ever gets that isnt just bugfixes. years pass, people grow old and die, mankind colonizes the stars, and our race become enlightened machine people, travelling the cosmos and becoming the new gods. and even then, way in the future, warframe will still be there, getting no updates with tons of empty servers.

 

Activision - corporate bigwigs mistakenly think warframe is not popular enough because people cannot emphasize with the tenno. new patch gives every warframe voices and "witty" one-liners. constant poor attempts to use modern hip lingo to attract bro-gamers. rhino now sounds like a stereotypical imposing black man. mag now sounds like raven from teen titans. excalibur now sounds like steve blum. game becomes popular and everyone plays it but are too ashamed to admit it because of how embarassing it is.

 

Nintendo/Namco/Capcom/Koei - game receives several beautiful updates. game becomes better than ever. however the new owners forget that, outside of japan, games need to be advertised if people are meant to buy them. poor marketing decisions are made. warframe never gets more popular, and quietly dies. warframe devs commit sudoku with their space katanas made of space metal folded over 1000 times in a cave below Mount Fuji. years later, the Tenno show up as cameos in fighting gams and nothing more.

OK First of all I wanna say, I am biased towards Valve. I have played games under, PWE, Nexon and GamersFirst, so when I came to Valve and saw how they handled their games, I was ecstatic and relieved to have found a game company that I could count on. All I wanted to say was that Valve is not as bad as you make them out to be. The thing about them is that they do updates in weird ways. There are small updates that don't do much aside from balance the game, and then there are large updates that add events, characters and items. I play DotA2 and TF, and there isn't anything I hate about them. Also please keep in mind that while other companies have thousands of people working under them, Valve has a few hundred, but all of them are specialised, and when they do make changes, they usually benefit the game. You should check out how Valve hires. If Warframe was taken under Valve's wings nothing would change. Most of the originals staff would stay with the game, and maybe it would be more steamlined, but largely nothing would change. Ths doesn't mean I want Valve to take over DE, far from it, I am just saying that if Valve did take over, you wouldn't notice much of a change in the game and how it grows.

[Archistopheles]

Riot Games

 

Is owned by the Chinese company Tencent.

 

I'm surprised more people haven't drawn a parallel to what Riot did and what DE might be doing.

 

Yes, Riot Games sold out for a few skrillion dollars to Tencent way back when, but under their contract, Riot kept 100% creative control of their game.

 

So suddenly they had the funds to build their game, and the creative freedom to craft it how they wanted to. All that money took away the stress of "I hope our in game store can pay for our food this week" and allowed them to focus on making the game "better."

 

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if DE did the same thing, although I would be sad about it either way.

Edited July 6, 2014 by Archistopheles

[Warriorrogue]

Three Rings - constant free updates, unfortunately ALL cosmetics and holiday events. no gameplay content is ever added again. weapons and warframe balance is never touched upon ever again. after a year or so the main 'creative head' of the staff mysteriously quits to pursue more indie prospects. warframe dies a slow agonizing f2p death.

Wow, I forgot about them.

 

Just a mention, there's a gunner update which hit the beta servers recently.

[BizarreFetalChimpanzee]

EA is the only one I'd actually be OK with.

 

Yes, EA has done a lot of really stupid $#!t, but compared to the others you list, they are heavenly compared to them.

[GStonez]

I could live with EA.

 

 Nexon, PWE or GamersFirst are serious eyebrow raisers.

Nexon made me lose hope in fps games they probably only did a good job on Vindictus and yet they still did not release it for everybody which also cuts down alot of their profits

Edited July 13, 2014 by GStonez

[RejectionOfFate]

KoG- Alright. Fair balance between P2W and F2P. They offer nearly every P2W Item in an event after its first month or so in their cash shops. You can honestly do very well without paying for the game. Their moderators and development team take suggestions from their forums, but not on the same level as DE. Not a bad company by a longshot.

 

EA - Bad, but nowhere near as bad as Nexon. It has had its ups and downs, with people never forgetting the downs with each screwup.

 

Nexon- Ripoff artists, what PWE wishes it was, because Nexon gets away with it. Terrible pricing with their ingame cash, limited timeframe to use them, unless you want to pay double/triple the basic price. Conversion rates of Cash to 'NxCash' are horrid. Sometimes, you can be locked out of content if you do not pay for it in certain areas, or they make it impossible to get past a certain area legitimately in a game, requiring a CashShop shortcut purchase.