Warframe is one of the most consistent hitters on Steam, and even if it can't match the home runs generated by some of the platform's biggest hits, its on-base percentage is impossible to ignore. If I understood WAR I'd add a related joke here, but the baseball metaphors aren't entirely out of left field – according to Warframe creative director Rebecca Ford, gamers who obsess over Steam charts have more or less tricked themselves into sports discourse.
"It's almost like we've sportified Steam charts and other metrics," Ford tells IGN. "Every time I see Steam chart discourse, it's like people are voting for their teams in a way that reminds me of checking a MLB player's batting average. They're like, well, Warframe’s batting at about 50k CCU with one spike, and as you can tell, if all of us were into sports, this same rhetoric would be used for your favorite sports team."
