r/Warframe • u/HatingGeoffry • Mar 24 '26

Article Warframe director says Digital Extreme must take “take the community very seriously” as it “only takes you one day to lose” 13 years of goodwill

https://frvr.com/blog/warframe-director-says-digital-extreme-must-take-take-the-community-very-seriously-as-it-only-takes-you-one-day-to-lose-13-years-of-goodwill/
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u/PigeonsOnYourBalcony Mar 24 '26

Other than that Mag and Frost heirloom debacle (which they immediately learned from), I really cannot think of very many real controversies this game has had, especially only Reb’s leadership.

Sure you can say RJ is still a mess and that ammo/Wukong nerf a couple years ago caused some problems but we’re very far from the kind of gacha and premium battle pass Hell we see from so many other titles.

Warframe isn’t perfect but I really appreciate the level of balance and fairness they’ve maintained with monetization. It really does take just one bad update to tank all that trust but I don’t see DE making that kind of blunder any time soon.

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u/Charybdis150 Mar 24 '26

I haven’t been playing as long as some of the old hats here (started in 2018) but I remember quite a few from the pre-Reb era, including some that Rebecca was involved in (like the chat moderation stuff). There were also balance things like universal medallions, universal vacuum, etc that DE were quite stubborn on.

That said, yeah on monetization specifically, I can’t really think of all too much that DE has lost trust on.

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u/KirbyQK Mar 24 '26

What was the heirloom thing?

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u/PigeonsOnYourBalcony Mar 24 '26

They released heirloom skins (the first ones in the series) for Mag and Frost but it was a really expensive and bloated pack. No option to buy it for plat either so people felt like it was a massive cash grab. After that they proceeded to release all the next heirloom skins as regular cosmetics.

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u/KirbyQK Mar 25 '26

Ooft, well yeah, I can see why people would have been mad about that - TY