Tenno Triumphant! Warframe Slashes Through the Field to Win MMOBomb's Ultimate F2P Showdown

LOL Whatap with Cacaballz' ignorance? Has he even played any of these games :P For everyone who's actually believing is comments:
Please don't? I mean, I can easily write pages and pages correcting his stupidity but I'm sure you're all well aware of his incorrect statements as they are corrected by others. All I'll say is that... forget all the trash talking and go and try out all the games since they're all unique in their own way... imo there was no need to go beyond the division winners :P Mabinogis the best amongst the games of its kind, Warframes the best amongst the games of their kind and so on so why not try them all out and see what suits you instead of wasting your time reading things posted by people drunk on haterade :O

Smite has been smitten xD

Vindictus will do better next year. *Nods*

I still hope for that Mabinogi vs. Vindictus match-up next year. Sucks when that possibility gets crushed in 30 seconds about 3 minutes from the closing of the poll.

Haven't played Smite, Played Warframe.
Still voted for Smite LOL.
Sorry Warframe, like your game but some people in your community (I know they don't represent you but I see more trolls that other games at once) made me vote for Smite. Plus all this who should of won or WOW WE WON IT WAS OBVIOUS WE WOULD WIN crap is annoying and no one cares at this point. ITS OVER soo.. whatever.

It's sad to see so many people calling Warframe out for cheating in an event that literally offers nothing to the players other than the right to say 'my gaem is betr than urs mobob ses so' and some credit to the development teams of either games. I'm actually questioning who here has actually played the game squaring off against their own and who here just Googled reasons why suchandsuch is good/bad and slapped them in here.

Well the contest is over. Some except the results others don't. Either way nothing will change. Regardless of who won or lost folks are gonna continue to play their favorite games and recommend them to friends. Other folks are gonna continue to not like some of the games, that won't change either.

Since MMOBomb is gonna have one of these every year why don't we talk about what they got right and what they got wrong. What kinds of things can be done and what can't.

I'll throw these out there:
- I found it curious how the number votes skyrocketed from RO-v-Mab round 1 and on. MMOBomb has said that from the semi-finals on there was very little cheating (THAT THEY COULD DETECT). Perhaps this is in-fact so, it is by no means certain. I think the polling software for this was quite inadequate and should be upgraded. A few things they could fix are
a) add email verification
b) add CAPTCHA for access and to label the choices as well
c) make the choices variable in order and perhaps location on screen
d) put in a forced time delay between selection and availability of the VOTE button.
This of course makes the voting process longer and more tedious but if we're all honestly voting just once then it isn't so bad and is a small price to pay to mitigate the effects of the more intelligent bots.

- The binary nature of this contest while exciting encourages support voting, spite voting, and strategic voting, which can obscure the meaning of the results. The contest began with 64 games it could have instead say had 8 races of 8 with an 8 game final or even a 4-4-4. Plurality wins. Now you have to choose whether to support your game or support another or vote against another for example.

- And I'll throw this out there for fun: conversely they could've left everything as is and simply said anything goes promotions, all types of voting, multiple voting, bots, the lot. I think it would've been kinda fun if that final voted had totaled to several millions of votes. The advantage of this is at least everyone is on an even playing field and there is no bu11$hit pretense.

ER MAH GERD! MY SIDE DIDN'T WIN! TEACHER, TEACHER! They CHEATED! They *MUST* have!!!

lolol jk, I voted for Warframe. Guess that makes me a bot, eh?

I dunno about *your* grapes, but mine are delicious. :D

This is great and all, but I really hope Warframe uses this opportunity to address the problems that hinder the players' willpower to keep playing. As of right now, the toughest guys in the game, which are like level 300, have to be cheesed in order to be brought down, as every single Warframe ability in the game does FAR less than 1% of every single monster's HP at that level. This leaves only warframes that have infinite CC or infinite survivability as the only playable ones(and sometimes that's not even the case). On top of that, the warframe community would rather these certain frames get nerfed, rather than buffing all the other ones, for "balance". In a PvE game, they would rather have nerfs. WoW.

In comparison with another co-op PvE game, Diablo 3 is doing things correctly, as it buffs crusaders while KEEPING wizards the same. Now it's DE's turn to see if they can step up and become real game developers that make changes in accordance to the people that matter when playing them: the ones that actually challenge themselves. DE can either change their endgame entirely or make those other frames viable, I don't care, but when they do something like that, I'll play Warframe again.

I've never even thought about quitting Smite though.

Can't you people just leave it? Warframe has almost eight millions of players, 100k votes are just a tiny portion of it.

Deal with it.

Was reading some of cacaballz's comments and was hitting my head into table... "really, and worst part is that they walk among us" echoed in my ears...

Well, let's make some things clear:

1) Neither Warframe or Smite bribed their own players to vote.
2) In the very end of the tournament, however, they had link to the poll on their launchers.
3) Neither of them is pay to win, although Warframe grind can be disheartening in the beginning.
4) Both are awesome games by pretty small companies. Hi-Rez has pretty bad reputation because of Tribes, but with Smite they have been great. No one ever complains about Digital Extremes.

I'm glad these two games were the finalists and that it was such a close call. Personally I play both of them, although I have to admit that I spend far more time on Smite than Warframe.

Now, i play both games quite active and i love them both. Mabinogi has endless possibilities, even about 10 different ways how to fight. But warframe has really cool combat. But please... Mabi is NOT a "chibi game where you grind crops". Its a world where you really choose what you are. The best anime rpg i stumbled upon. No classes. No restrictions. Not even a need to fight. But when you want, theres plently of ways.

It's a great match actually lol. and yeah both games are awesome (playing Warframe right now, watched gameplay videos of SMITE) and both are actually AWESOME. To those who are saying both are P2W, NO, they are not P2W because i believe you can get as much stuff on Smite with grinding, lke warframe. I don't know what the hate is all about; they're just games so I dunno why everyone's so mad. But it's good to know that Warframe won, and I have another MOBA to check out (SMITE)!

SMITE = Shit Moba Is Turd for brains Entertainment.

I was watching the great battle.Smite had very good lead of 3.5k votes.But at the end it all stoped.It was a big battle,and for me both games are extremly good,but again,Warframe had more fans voted.I would recommend people to try bouth games out. :)

Im not trying to start a fight here.Yes warframe won congratz all tenno but on the way to the final they struggled in the first round and when airmech needed to help them.Thats just cheating where as you see smite demolish every game on the way to the final again i think another game has helped vote for them its clear to everybody airmech were the people who helped out warframe get to the final if it wasnt for them they wouldnt even be in the top 4(please dont take offense of this since it is a true statement)

And I only got 25k votes for SMITE with my bot :(
Prob. that's why we lost.

PS: This post isn't to be taken seriously, I am just proving that anyone could post anything in anon mode incl. "cheating confessions" as provocations

I am very interested in knowing how do they actually check for which votes are bots and which are not? do they simply check IP, or do they have better methods? Cause if they just check IP's that would be so easy to bypass

Both games fought hard, Both fanbases voted hard. Good match for all, but to people who are bragging "Warframe is better, Smite is terrible, etc." What are you posting for? Bragging rights? To try to be on the winning side or something? Both games are great, and both deserve a W. And to people who are whining about "Cheated Votes", Each of the four Finalists had them, and while there is those who are guilty, not the entire Community is to blame. To sum everything up, Both are amazing, Don't Brag, Cheaters Cheat (get used to it).

Sorry guys, but i think Smite deserved to win, alot of the fake votes of the 10 year olds who played/play Warframe( and also Smite, but shooters are the worst kind of kids ) weren't removed, the last final stretch was 20% cheated, meaning it wasn't fair. But well Smite had some cheaters tough, and i think it was a good fight! Well done WarFrame! ... (goshdamit am i now thanking these morons from the twitch stream? ;O)

While I never played Smite, I am really surprised by the number of people that were backing it. I fully believed Warframe was going to streamroll it. Their community proved me wrong with a HUGE bitchslap to the face.

Anyways, congrats to Tenno and Gods alike. And to said Gods, give Warframe a try. Though do be warned; it's not a competitive game at all right now. PvP does exist, but it's not balanced at all. So unless you can get into PvE gameplay, might wanna hold off until PvP is polished up :).

The business model WF uses also isn't bad at all. I would say it's more accurate to say that getting 'traction' is hard at the beginning (due to having to wait for weapons to build over the course of half a day to a full day, and lack of things to sell to players on the market). But once you DO get traction and hold onto your patience, there's nothing you can't get that paying players can.

I have nearly over $10 worth of Platinum (in-game, paid currency) just by selling rare mods I've randomly found along with Prime parts from Void Missions, which are kind of your go-to missions once you've maxed your weaponry and frames. And this isn't over the course of a month- no. I've made this much Platinum in only about THREE days, and it's enough to get a fancy scarf, a new color pallette, or more inventory slots.

In most other MMOs that say you can get stuff from the item mall for free, you typically have to take WEEKS to grind up enough in-game cash to buy that special item.

While I know alot of people can't stand to wait to get goodies, isn't that kind of a universal thing for F2Ps? Pay 2 Not Wait? WF is no different in that regard.

warframe really? smite had to win with eyes closed.. wtf...??? warframe is like one of the shitiest game i have ever played

Warframe for lyyyyyyyfe

GET REKT SUUUUUUUUN, gg no re, gg feeders

Mabinogi losers, smite losers, path of exiles losers.

Smite fought well. I hardly expected my favorite moba to get this far, competing against TF2. I haven't played much Warframe, but it was an honorable battle won only by the smallest margin.

I've played both games extensively, so it's good to see both games get to meet in the finals. But I stopped playing Warframe, and haven't stopped playing Smite. Smite has a really bad "tier list" and several useless Warframes that the entire community has scorn against whenever they see one. Great game, fun gameplay, interesting story, but the community themselves seems like they only want about 5 or 6 warframes to be viable at the highest level of play. How could a community want that.

Other than you I can't sense any life-form here, get to extraction Tenno!

next time we will beat warframe everyone will outvote them we should make sure that warframe dev must never do that ever again.

okay this was messed up how the hell do u get over 3000 vote in less then five mins, oh wait bots so go f your self warframe sucks and you can not tell me any diff you have to grind way more then u should just to get a new crap wep unless you pay real money and i bet most off you that said smite sucks have not even played it, and yes i have played warframe and im sad to say i wasted time playing it i played it in the closed beta till now and it went from some what crap to super crappy say what you want its not going to change, and if you want to get into it every game that comes out is a clone every one.

Well congratulations to all the medalists:
Warframe for winning Gold
SMITE for winning Silver
and since Mabinogi got more votes than Path of Exile did I'd say that's the Bronze.

Good work tenno, those virgins putakus (otakus) are crying because that "very innovator game (sarcasm - another copy of dota)" cant won the showdown. a beta game beating a full supported game, is a epic win.

thank god the Spy Bot... I mean... Smite didn't win

after what Hi-Rez did, it is sad to see how many people supported them

Funny though, League of Legends would won if they did the same than others game by offering a "payment" ingame.

MMOBomb didnt even take cheated votes away and the whole showdown was about they getting money from people clicking on their site. Well anyways, i guess both of the games are ok if they got to here but i have to say that Warframe is totally pay to win BECAUSE you can buy the weapons even though you can just get them for free. I guess other mobas voted for Warframe cause they are jealous ;) Smite ftw anyways. Warframe community gave me cancer @ Twitch :(

Smite is still better game.

You should be thanking me I did 30k+ votes thanks to auto clicker :P suck it nerds.

A Pay 2 Win game winning a real F2P...

Good, very good and then I wonder why I lose hope in the gaming

Now that it's all over, lets Finish it with one HELL OF A DANCE PARTY!!

it was such an awesome battle, insults were hurled, tears were shed, laughter filled the halls and happiness flew across the land,

the adrenaline to hope our game wins , the sadness our game lost, you all put up a good fight, but the battle is over, but now is the Time to Celebrate!, LETS PARTY!!

Well done Tenno, the day is ours. rest now for vay hek is recreating his army. and it will not be long before he emerges once more to destroy us. see you on the battle field.

Who actually won? All of us. Warframe, SMITE, their community and MMOBomb of course.
Such hype, damn, it was crazy. We have found new friends at this tournament, which is great.
Thank you all!

With many less removed votes SMITE showed that they where a good community and an honorable opponent.
GG WP

You will still die by my blade grineer scum :D

Also Loki and Nyx are names of gods.

Sweet - the game without offensive depictions of deities from one (and only one) major religion won =P

Rraahudd Tenno!We fought together.We crushed the greedy milk from their skulls.Smite voted paid their crimes with their useless lives.(still respect ,smiters)

What a showdown that was. GG Smite.

Congrats to Warframe, but it's a shame that mmobomb streamed the results and directly affected the vote count. Without the stream, I highly doubt that the influx of late votes would have occurred allowing Warframe to narrowly edge Smite. That being said, Warframe is a great game and one I might have to get back into.I highly recommend both games to any and all viewers of this page.

Man, I was expecting a much bigger article. Also, remember, Warframe almost lost to Vindictus in the first round but no mention of them? xD

Well, that is a surprise ... Congratz to Warframe.

And dun worry, smiters, it's just an internet thing and everyone know, that's totally serial biz !

Well, gg to both games but this battle has been handled very badly by MMOBOMB. I am sorry but if you say: We will not reveal any results of this battle -> then continue to post unlabelled results to Twitter -> and then STREAM the exact results??? Like, well done, you earned quick buck... but you couldve told this to us in the first place... Hey guys, we wanna make some more money off of this so we will stream the results. NOT LIKE THIS: Ehm, yeah, we wont show the results at all... The next moment you stream them for some little ad revenue...

Just one more thing: You should've set up some moderator bots in the stream... the profanity in the chat was just HORRIBLE... + everybody was spamming all the time. I know that you were probably not ready for 2,5k+ people but seriously, having those mod bots is necessary especially when doing an event like this...

Anyway Well Played to both games! Unfortunately Warframe has bigger playerbase and surprised us with a ninja attack:D

fak off all mobas, go back to shithole

well good job warframe, the battle was tight, i would have like smite to win, but we cant have everything :)

The odds were against us tenno , but we did it !

Much respect to SMITE for an excellent battle.