Talk:Aksomati/@comment-174.54.100.25-20150408231505/@comment-665695-20150409084123

Rambling, the "metagame" is the decision-making that players do outside the game. When you play Warframe, you do things like go to the Foundry, enter a mission, shoot enemies, hack consoles, etcetera. But when you strategize your next decisions from outside the game--you listen to people telling you what to build next, you look at the wiki to see which missions drop the items you want, you read a guide telling you how to best shoot enemies, you study a basic topology course to easily solve the corpus cipher, etc.--it is then that you are "metagaming".

Lots of people, including me, hate metagaming because of its effect on the community. People within the game will attempt to twist your experience to what the community considers the "optimal" method of play. It's the reason I've once actually joined a T2 Exterminate that had 3 Rhino Primes, each wielding Soma Prime, Orthos Prime, and Synoid Gammacor. When your decisions are made for you outside the game, you aren't so much playing the game as executing a program or following a recipe.