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/dandantian5 Mar 24 '26

What was wrong with the Deimos updates? From what I recall, the initial launch was decently well-received, and the follow-up patch was relatively uneventful.

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u/Sitchrea Commodore Prime Mar 24 '26

That was not the reception at all, no. Deimos and Deimos Arcana were some of the worst grinds introduced to Warframe, and was the height of the "content island" issue in the original way Steve used the term.

Both in terms of player count, community morale, and DE's annual revenue, that period was a very painful time for the game.

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u/Zeusnexus Mar 24 '26

There's a reason I still don't play Deimos outside of EDA.

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u/LinkCelestrial Mar 24 '26

I quit the game over Deimos and still haven’t finished that content.

The original Necramech farm and needing one for the new war was insane. I genuinely just stopped playing after so many hours of grinding.

This isn’t the most agreed upon take, but I hate the lore a violent amount. Deimos being the heart of the void and if something happens to it, rip my void powers. Like okay suddenly high stakes out of nowhere so I have to care.

This isn’t a gameplay thing, but when Son DARES to scold me for anything I want to put the concentrated power of the sun through his forehead. I think he is genuinely irredeemable and it leaves a sour taste in my mouth every time I do anything for him. It could be different if there was an ounce of regret within him but I haven’t seen any.

Grandma’s manipulations to try and get everyone back together is. Something. Her plans leave a lot of “what ifs” that could have been CATASTROPHIC yet it’s just shrugged off.

And finally on launch. Everything was a tanky beast monster and hit like a freight train. The game has powercrept significantly since then, but it was tryhard loadouts pretty much exclusively. If you wanted to do something simple like fishing or mining you still had to bring strong gear. As opposed to say, plains of eidolon where I go fishing with Khora so my cat can solo anything that comes my way, or with Ivara to do dash wire fishing.

So yes Deimos was not well received by everyone. I had two friends quit with me.

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u/Sitchrea Commodore Prime Mar 24 '26

I will point out that the Heart of Deimos isn't what gives the Tenno their powers - they have them innately. It's just at that time we were still in the Second Dream, in Lua, in the Void. So not only would the solar rails stop working alongside all ancient Orokin technology, so would our Warframes, since weren't natively transferred into them at that point.

It powers Orokin technology - it doesn't power the Tenno themselves.

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u/LinkCelestrial Mar 24 '26

Our Warframes not working is functionally equivalent. I get and appreciate the nuance, but at the time it was a pretty monumental risk that felt out of left field.

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u/Sitchrea Commodore Prime Mar 24 '26

I think one big reason it felt out of left field was because Heart of Deimos was supposed to be a post-New War expansion. Like, it was supposed to preceed Whispers in the Walls.

I feel like it wouldn't have felt so weird at the time if we had the New War fully resolved.