The other day a couple of my friends had twisted my arm to finally download "Warframe". Even though it's been out for a while I was reluctant to download it because I already play some grind type games like Warthunder, and couldn't help think "Haven't I suffered enough?" I'm also pretty old school, and having characters that look like the monsters I've grown up shooting doesn't exactly appeal to me. But after playing a couple days now, I feel pretty silly for not playing this over a year ago. It turns out I was wrong and it's a pretty great game. I know what you're thinking "Cool story Bro, but this is Destiny feedback" ...Well I'm getting to that part. The similarity between these two games is IMHO pretty obvious, except Warframe is a Space RPG MMO, done right, and well Destiny is the most expensive game ever created. And even though they don't want to admit it, just like Battlefield has been in competition with CoD for your super soldier admiration. So has Destiny, and Warframe for your super space knight love. Both games have let say borrowed influences from other Sci-Fi franchises. Playing Warframe I couldn't help notice the background music reminds me of Mass Effect. And the enemy's called the "Infested" are similar to Halo's own "The Flood" in even the way they behave. Though to be fair Warframe is somewhat a sequel to the game Dark Sector, borrowing heavily from it. With Destiny you can't tell me that there's not elements like the Cabal are not Space Marines! Heck they even have the Sargent symbol on them, why would aliens have that? But at the same time Destiny is trying to bring the Warframe experience to you and failing miserably at it. This is a huge amount of SPECULATION from me, but I'm starting to wonder exactly what happened way back in 2013 in Destiny's development. We've all heard the story's where the test group found the story too predictable which sent Bungie into a story slashing frenzy. http://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731 But what if that isn't the whole story? I don't believe it's not a coincidence that Bungie was in a mad panic at approx the same time Warframe was being released onto PS4. What I believe may have happened is that the higher ups looking at Warframe had a heart attack. The similarity's were so overwhelming that someone in the legal dept was scared to death of getting sued! Which caused many original elements of the game to be taken out. For instance in the Original Destiny, you're an covert agent working for the Crow. In Warframe you too are a covert agent. So the covert agent idea was scraped out of Destiny. Just look at some of the original Destiny concept art, http://i.imgur.com/qnaUsvf.jpg and tell me it doesn't look a little bit like Warframe. In fact if you google Warframe concept art, along with Destiny it's pretty hard to tell them apart. http://conceptartworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Destiny_Concept_Art_05b.jpg [b](Dang it Bungie it's been 3 years, where's our giant toads battling with magical space Yoda's!!!)[/b] At the same time I believe Activision, which has been dying to get into the FTP market for a while. (They have spent billions buying King makers of Candy Crush just to do so). Seeing Warframe, and it's micro transactions they said "Hey this is exactly the game we've been looking for, why can't you make Destiny more like this" And suddenly the pressure was on to shake players by ankles for that extra loot...*cough* I mean revenue. So lets talk similarity's that aren't my imagination, and how it's done better by Warframe. 1) [b]Ships: [/b]Your ship is your loading screen. Destiny has dozens of ships to chose from. Warframe only has a few, but did I mention you spend a lot of time INSIDE them. You can decorate, re-color, and re-skin them. Some ships have different ability's to help you in battle. 2) [quote]Ability:[/quote] Destiny has class ability's, and certain armors have special powers. Warframe the different frames have different ability's, but you collect and power up Mods to make your load out unique. You can also customize your appearance with different colors at will. The mods are a bit RNG. 3) [b]Social spaces.[/b] Destiny has the Tower among others. You can join factions, buy junk from the gunsmith, get missions, and kiss Xur's boots when he shows up. Warframe, has Relays! Where you have syndicates instead of Factions. Pretty much the same right? Except Warframe has a market, where you can buy, TRADE, and sell your old gear. 4) [b]Communication:[/b] Warframe has text chat, and decent in game audio chat. Or you can use PS4 chat. It's not uncommon to see players talking to each other in the Relay. Destiny almost has no chat. Emotes in Warframe are mostly free, and you can use them on the fly. Destiny only has the one, that you have to re-equip to change. 5) [b]Matchmaking: [/b] Warframe you can go solo, friends only, or random public (Even in PVP). And if you want to tag along with your much higher experienced friend on a mission way too hard for uber loot you can! Destiny hates the idea of optional matchmaking, while trying ram SBMM down our throats. 6)[b]Guns:[/b] Destiny has rare guns, that you hope and pray RNG will gift you, but most of it is re-skined -re-hashed junk. Warframe you can buy, or build your fave gun! (Time consuming) but you collect mods to upgrade it the way you like. And there's a style for everyone. Not to mention Warframe has always had swords, Destiny may have added them to compete and fill in the gap to be more like Warframe. There's many more similarity I've noticed, but this is getting a bit TL;DR. So all I want to say is Why isn't Destiny a lot more like Warframe, since that's who they are obviously trying to be? If a smaller company can get trading to work, why can't Bungie with it's gigantic budget? I'm starting to believe that Bungie is focusing so deeply on PVP, because that's the only place were they feel that they can maybe out preform Warframe, in giving it's customers a unique experience.