How is praying for a 50 or 75% discount on platinum for your login reward fair and balanced? Plat is ridiculously overpriced without those discounts.

You can obtain platinum without ever spending money on the game so long as you trade with other players in-game.

Prime Bundles are absurd levels of expensive, something like $150 or $200 for exclusive warframe-agnostic armor cosmetics, a small amount of plat, and skipping of the grind for the new prime frame.

I think it's tough to compare Apex and Warframe's monetization models because Warframe's only got two currencies and you technically never have to interact with giving them money. Instead of giving them money when you want to, you've got to earmark money and log in every day and wait for that big discount.

Warframe's got that addicting crack for players which Apex lacks, not saying either method is better, but I think comparing these two games might be a false equivalence