All In A Month's Rant - Microtransactions The Warframe Way

As we have seen from the likes of Middle earth: Shadow of War and Star Wars Battlefront II, there are many ways to implement micro transactions the wrong way. Each best exemplifies a distinct way of getting micro transactions wrong – one for making gameplay so grindy and tedious that paying to not play seemed like an attractive option, the other for going the Pay-to-Win route. The latter did tweak the implementation so that it’s less Pay-to-Win, but it nevertheless remains so because Epic Star Cards are now part of the Deluxe Edition, instead of loot boxes. But I digress.

- Ian Chee

There is one wrong that these two games have in common though, and that is having microtransactions in a US$60 retail game (approx. RM250) that has its own DLCs, season passes, and all that jazz.

So with all that said, is there a game that does microtransactions properly? Funnily, there are a few, and it’s unsurprising that few have heard of them. But I’d just like to point out one that’s close to my heart, one that’s just gained the gaming public’s attention ever since a heavy marketing exercise for its latest expansion. I’m, of course, talking about Warframe.

Now, I haven’t been playing