Southern Wolf

I have well over 200h in game now, and can honestly say that Warframe’s monetization systems is probably one of the best in the MMO genre. There is effectively no P2W mechanics in the game at all (save for resource boosting which… really isn’t that significant overall. Those are also given to you for free quite often too as daily rewards). You can throw pretty much all the money at the game you want to, and it won’t give you any real, meaningful advantage. Nor is any part of the story locked behind a paywall either, and it is now a story that will easily take you well over 100 hours to complete (this is a very conservative estimate). The monetization system is almost entirely cosmetic in nature, save for resource gather boosters, inventory expanders (which really aren’t needed, tbh…) and Forma for altering the polarity of mod slots.

I haven’t bought Platinum once in playing. Heck, I still have my ~50 starting Platinum that was given to me from where I first jumped in. You do not have to spend a cent to enjoy the game to its fullest. Warframe’s monetization is honestly one of the best systems you could ask for in the genre, and I’m fairly content in saying the overall gaming industry would be much, much healthier if they followed Warframe’s model rather than so many of the predatory systems we see being used now.

There’s Kitten Space Agency. It’s basically the spiritual successor to KSP, just with Kittens instead (and also perhaps a bit more realism than KSP?)