I’ve been playing Warframe for a long time now. (jan 02 2014).
Sure the game improves, story gets added in things gets interesting and … boring from endless grinding. I feel actually done with the game regardless of the little stuff I got left to finish getting.
Grinding is very boring and MMORPG related, this game is a 3rd person fps but it feels more like an 3rd person view diablo and every node is a dungeon type.
PvP is very needed in this game and here is how you can add it.
Revamp the Steel-path, if Gears of War can do PvP so can Warframe.
3 teams of 4 on every match, give a higher reward / risk for each node.
Here is some examples:
Exterminate -> TDM(6 lives per team not user) + PVE with the ability if the target is met for exterminate they can head to extraction to avoid pvp content.
Mobile Defense + Defense missions. King of the Hill style vs PVE waves, but increase the mobs per waves and teams have a respawn amount from pvp if you die to another player it counts as a team revive and they can only be respawned up to 6 times. . pve same rules applied as before.
Survive: Hordes of mobs vs Environment + PvP as this turns into a battle for air domination nodes and TDM with 6 pvp team revives.
Assassination (Boss Nodes): This is similar to how Hunt: Showdown operates, your team goes in and kills the assassin target but instead of the boss dropping stuff they drop the bounty collected this could lead to the other teams ambush to attack before and after.
Assassination (Acolyte Spawns): These also drop a bounty for the current game, boosting the rewards of the mission type. Just like the Boss nodes, this acts like Hunt: Showdown
RailJack: Lets make this interesting and turn this into sea of thieves + elite dangerous, 3 ships per mission they have to rush to complete the target first, or just ship combat and / or complete ship take over.
Index: PvP instead of 1 team vs pve content, now we open this to 4 teams, 3 players, 1 AI and up the wager amount.
Just this content alone, viewership for even the newbie players will jump. Because every game will be unpredictable and fun. It will make new changes for players to mod their warframes differently and be more open to making better choices with match making.
Leaderboards can be added, endless possibilities.