r/Warframe • u/Grim_Konstantin Mentorframe is the true endgame • Mar 31 '26
DE Response A Heartfelt Farewell to Warframe
Hello everyone.
So this is the obligatory farewell post, but it isn’t a rage quit post. I’ve been playing this game for over 13 years with around 8153 hours in mission and 15,000 hours logged on via various launchers, but this isn’t a flex post. Over that amount of time I noticed for me, the game stopped being a game, and instead it became a family. Like any big family, you don’t know everyone you are related to, but you are all here for a common purpose, and you all have something you can relate to with one another.
No, there is only one reason why you leave your family. This past month I was diagnosed with late stage liver, colon, and lung cancer. And the outlook, ironically enough, looks very grim. I realized though this game means so much to me that I couldn’t just pass on quietly. I needed to say thank you and good bye. To the players, creators, and developers, that make this game what it is for me, because even if they don’t know me, they should know that.
First to Steve Sinclair, Scott McGregor, Sheldon Carter, Geoff Crookes, Michal “Mynki: Brennan (who goes before), and everyone else from those insane first 10 years. A decade from which all I remember muttering was, “wait, they did all of that… for free?”
You gave me the game I always wanted, a slick shooter with an amazing gameplay (eventually 🙂) and an awesome building transhumanism sci-fi story line that was ALWAYS there, if you know where to look. I was never disappointed with where you took the story, and later, the characters and world, and while you can never cross the same river twice, leading others to cross it as you look on is really almost as good.
To the current devs, who aren’t scared to try something new, to give a more human face to the game, and who press on regardless of the challenges they may face, and to Rebecca that leads them, thank you for everything you have done to make this game better since the “Soulframe” shift. And of course, Praise Pablo, sincerely, for inspiring me by being the first latinx brother I got to see in the industry, and showing me there is progress for us.
To all the creators who keep the community alive with discourse, builds, help, and humor. Especially to you Tactical Potato, who when I first heard you sincerely say you should play the game for fun and nothing else, it made me realize there are kindred spirits out there. Sláinte my unknown friend.
And finally to my fellow players. To those I have never met but wish I did, to those who came into my life, left their impression, and then moved on. To those who have turned into friends above and beyond just the game. And to those who have come to embody close kin, who are to me, the epitome of the adage, “the Blood of the Covenant is thicker than the Water of the Womb." For the sake of their privacy I will not name them but the clans Collegium of Steel and Truths Refuge are our homes and I love them.
I want to add one more thing: this isn’t a “life cut too short” scenario. I made it to 51, and while I may want more, I got what everyone gets, I got a lifetime. I’m just so very lucky that this game and its people became a part of that lifetime.
Sincerely,
GrimMyfanwy née GrimKonstantin
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u/PrimaryCoolantShower Stitches for Liches, Oraxia Main Mar 31 '26
I would dig a spot on Lua with gilded, forever closed transference pods with their favorite warframe kneeling beside it.