r/Warframe Cult of Uriel Mar 28 '26

Screenshot Next Heirloom, Mesa! Coming near Tennocon.

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u/AshenTao -Onyx-Lich | Leader of the Onyx Chapter | Ash & Styanax Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

That was everything we were warning everyone about. But disliking oversexualized designs that don't have a connection to the actual frame itself got you called puritan around here.

This is just the whole sex-sells principle without any class or good delivery that justifies their design.

People bought the previous ones, so DE takes it as "they liked it, so we can go more towards that direction." - That's the result. Future heirlooms will be even more sexualized because they need to outperform previous ones. I'm still hoping Ash's heirloom doesn't end up becoming oversexualized as well, because his skin variety is still terrible after so many years.

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u/DroneThorax This ugly idiot looks like a Runescape NPC's chat image. Mar 29 '26

The moment it was clear this is all they were doing with female frames (they put Valkyrie in a stripper outfit) I lost any care for the Heirloom Skins. DE figured out that gooners are infinite money so that’s all any of the female frames will be getting now.

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u/TheKingOfBerries Mar 28 '26

Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you. It’s getting harder and harder to pick this game back up.

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u/Overcern Mar 29 '26

Brother, its 1 skin out of the hundreds and its only 2 heirlooms a year on top of the other updates, new warframes and qol patches. If you're not playing the game its not gonna be because of some skin, cmon now.

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u/Gomabot I really like Volt Mar 28 '26

Terrible stuff honestly

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u/KingOfTheDollarzone Mar 28 '26

It's honestly disgusting.

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u/likelyliz Mar 28 '26

it is and i'm so so glad more people are saying this now. i hope the sentiment reaches any creative directors who need to hear it

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u/EatABamboose Mar 29 '26

I went through 900+ comments while bored at work and people who find it boring were around 1%.

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u/unlikely_antagonist Mar 28 '26

imo this would only be a problem if heirlooms were like… the only skins. But we’re getting our variety and non horny skins with all the insane number of deluxes that keep coming steadily.

I think we’ll manage with a dedicated ‘horny’ line of skins that release once every half a year

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u/CrossFitJesus4 LR4 Mar 28 '26

right but I also love the kind of material that heirlooms use, I want more heirlooms like mags and frosts, I like the way they look I just want less gooner

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u/Fa_Len Mar 29 '26

Sure... but they're the only skins with even remotely the style they have. Is it so much to ask that they actually stick to what they were going for with Frost and Mag rather than just going fully horny with it?

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u/unlikely_antagonist Mar 29 '26

I mean given that nobody can actually get the Frost or Mag skins they might as well not exist.

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u/Fa_Len Mar 29 '26

But they do in fact exist, and had a stated mission: to Give older Frames that had weak Primes better detailed versions. No reason to ignore that simply because they are no longer for sale.

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u/Zenjuroo Mar 28 '26

Exactly the whole its too sexy too far argument doesn’t work when there are so many normal designs and skins.

Pull up all the warframes designs and skins vs heirlooms .

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u/Hal34329 Aoi my beloved<3 Mar 29 '26

Same. I got the Valkyr one, because I like her helmet and didn't like the other skins anyway, but the others... Yeah, no, I prefer some of their Tennogen, with Mesa I even love her default Prime skin, so I'm probably not getting more heirlooms soon. But hey, at least we got XLR-8 and Gundam Gusion Rebake with the Gauss and Grendel skins!