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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99Subscribe now Battlefield 6 SDCC 2025 schedule Switch 2 Starter Pack Recommended reading Third Person Shooters "So if you know anyone": Warframe developers "can't wait" to make a Switch 2 version just as soon as Nintendo gets around to sending them a dev kit 11 years into a very confusing MMO, Destiny 2 lead reckons Bungie might have some problems onboarding new players: "We really want to be looking at things like New Light" "It's terrifying": CEO behind ex-Helldivers, WoW devs' new studio says it's a "silly," "ridiculous" time to create a new studio, but someone needs to stop "ignoring 52% of the world population" Action Games Fresh from unveiling Atomic Heart 2 and wild spin-off The Cube, Mundfish's CEO has his sights set on making a game as impactful as Crysis: "This is art!" He spent years making the single-player MMO he dreamt of for decades – it blew his "expectations and sales goals out of the water," and of course fans added multiplayer to it "There isn't FOMO and your progress matters": An MMO migration turns to revelation for some, with a World of Warcraft horde becoming a wave of RuneScape enjoyers Final Fantasy Final Fantasy 14 devs know some fans found Field Operations "boring," but it's helped make Occult Crescent better: "We hope those kinds of players will be sure to try it out" How do you make an impossibly dense MMO friendly to new players? Warframe dev says you just keep trying: "I don't think we've ever quite got that 100% right" Iain Harris 29 July 2025 "If Warframe is Disney, we're putting in new rides every year or maybe even every quarter" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Digital Extremes) Any MMO that meets success over a period of time often runs into the same issue – how do you make the prospect of getting into your game less frightening to newer players when there's upwards of ten years of content to catch up on? For Digital Extremes president Sheldon Carter, while Warframe hasn't "quite got that 100% right" even after 12 years, it's best thought of as a theme park. "So the way I like to think about it is an amusement park," he tells us. "If Warframe is Disney, we're putting in new rides every year or maybe even every quarter, really, that you can go into. But you do have to keep making sure that the path through to get to that is still really good for the new people who have been to that theme park for the first time. My analogy is slowly breaking down as I think this through, but that's the idea. "I think it's a good model, because it tells you that you need to make sure you onboard people and tell them what they're going to do before you can get them into the big rides. But the team really wants to do the big-ticket stuff, and so it's a challenge to make sure that it's accessible at some level for new players. And I don't think we've ever quite got that 100% right. So it's something we're always working on." You may like "So if you know anyone": Warframe developers "can't wait" to make a Switch 2 version just as soon as Nintendo gets around to sending them a dev kit 11 years into a very confusing MMO, Destiny 2 lead reckons Bungie might have some problems onboarding new players: "We really want to be looking at things like New Light" "It's terrifying": CEO behind ex-Helldivers, WoW devs' new studio says it's a "silly," "ridiculous" time to create a new studio, but someone needs to stop "ignoring 52% of the world population" The question comes as Warframe eyes up a new platform – the Nintendo Switch 2. The space ninja-themed MMO is on the OG Switch, though a lack of dev kits is why we've not seen the leap to the Switch 2 just yet. Still, given that Warframe has a reputation for being impossibly big and dense with systems from across genres, we ask how Digital Extremes is keeping all of this contained and playable on multiple platforms, such as the Switch 2. (Image credit: Digital Extremes) "Sometimes even I kind of boggle at that," Carter admits. "I mean, we're on iOS too, you know, we're going towards Android. It's the same game. It's not a different game, right? And so across all the platforms, it is wild. "I think probably one of these core ideas is self-reliance. And that comes from the fact that the Evolution engine is what we built the game on. That's something where our build process kind of gets us there, our tech process gets us there, where it kind of works across everything. And then it takes some pretty good design minds. On Warframe, having a guy like Pablo [Alonso] as our design director, he's able to kind of keep all that in his head. "I can't – being totally honest, I can't. People ask me point-blank questions about certain systems, and I just go, 'You know, I've played, I have thousands of hours in the game. You know, I've played the development build all the time. I can't keep track of all the stuff, but Pablo can.'" Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Carter goes on to say that a big focus for Digital Extremes this year has been breaking down barriers, particularly in terms of time. "I don't want to spoil The Second Dream, but Second Dream being such a big aspect of the game, I think we chopped something like half of the time to get there," he says. "I think we're hoping to cut it down even a little bit more so people can kind of get to some of those reveals, and we can get rid of some of the places where you might get bogged down in some of the complexity of the game, and get right to the narrative that you're going to love and still give you the progression. "So it has been a big part of what we're trying to do with the game, and even with the new update, we're hoping to let that be more new-player friendly as well." Want to know the best MMOs? We've got 'em listed right here. See more PC Gaming News Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X PlayStation Iain Harris Social Links Navigation News Editor, Games I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. 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