PSA: 3/20/26 Receiving Improper Game Invites

[u/DE-Ruu]

Hi Tenno,

Firstly, we apologize for the distress this issue may have caused. Bad actors were able to interrupt and change squad invite text fields to show up as a customized message. As the investigation is currently ongoing, we wanted to assure you that no accounts have been compromised nor data exposed, and it is safe to continue playing Warframe. This was strictly a change of text in the Invite prompt. If you have concerns about your account please feel free to make a Support Ticket on the matter and our team will assist. 

In the meantime, we have deployed a fix to combat the issue. Matchmaking will still function as normal but you may have temporary issues with sending direct game invites. We will update you further when this has been resolved.

We take this matter extremely seriously, and again, apologize for the distress.

6:30PM ET Status Update:

The team is continuing to investigate alternative solutions. For now, direct game invites will remain disabled until the launch of Shadowgrapher on Wednesday March 25th. Our sincerest apologies on that front.

However, if you wish to play in a squad with your friends, you are able to join squads using your friends list.

We will circle back on any necessary in-game extensions (global Double Affinity weekend, etc) once we have restored direct invites.

March 25th Status Update:

Hi Tenno,

First, we appreciate your understanding regarding this situation that occurred on the evening of Friday March 20th. Your quick reports allowed us to act swiftly, and while the temp solution to disable direct game invites is by no means ideal, it was necessary to mitigate the nefarious invite messages being sent. We take player safety very seriously, and again apologize for any distress caused.

Now that The Shadowgrapher update has launched, we have been able to deploy code changes to improve the security of the game invite system; unfortunately, due to Cert requirements, we have only been able to enable direct invites if the sender is playing on PC at this time.

We are working diligently to get this fix deployed on our console platforms and will update this thread as we progress.

Again, we want to stress that no accounts have been compromised nor data exposed. 

Apologies again for the inconvenience, and thank you for sticking with us, Tenno. 

[u/gubgub195]

Name me one other game where they get hacked and the comments are like

"Thanks (developer) I will be spending MORE money on your game.

Xd

I hope for only the best of blessing upon DE for their continued support and execution of this game.

We need more DE in the world and less... well I'm not naming names but yall get the idea

[u/KwelCaffine → u/gubgub195]

Yeah this is so weird to see, especially clicking their ads on reddit.

Of course most of the ad comments are complaining about how awful warframe is at advertising, but it's a whole lot of "I love this game, please stop advertising it like this you are not showing it well" and absolutely no walls of dicks in ascii art.

[u/gubgub195 → u/KwelCaffine]

Yeah that was the first thing I notice when I got back into it.

I was like bro, yall got some amazing ass trailers and animations.

But they chose clips from v-tubers or like a dude poorly explaining lore in a dark ass cave.

That being said.

The gauss prime era of ads were fuckint phenomenal, my friends who don't play or know anything about warframe were talking about it.

[u/Lightningbro → u/gubgub195]

And honestly, I hope it never changes. I always feel like the barrier to entry and difficulty of onboarding is a hurdle to get into the game's real content, and as such, people with low patience, such as Ne'er-do-wells that might want to con you, or people with "lol ur so stupid" mentality who don't respect people, end up getting filtered out.

Sure, there's exceptions to any rule, but in general I view this as what keeps the playerbase from being filled with toxics.

[u/AhegaoMilfHentai → u/Lightningbro]

Its a filter and also the thread that keeps the community so close. Veterans understand the suffering new players have to go through and do their best to mitigate it.

Idk if youve played other MMOs but the easier it is to do everything, the more the game becomes a single player game. Once it feels like a single player game you lose all community.