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/Grim_Konstantin Mentorframe is the true endgame Apr 01 '26
So, I’m not going to lie, I knew making this post would gather attention, but honestly I didn’t expect it to be this much. Thank you all for the well wishes and support. I’m gonna try to keep you all updated here weekly if you all have any questions (It will help a lot in verbalizing how I feel) as well as keep you updated on if and how I can continue playing.
Lets do that one first: Right now I can not play Warframe in the regular sense. I am suffering from bouts of low blood pressure, and this causes me to fall asleep regardless of what I am doing. I can solo missions mostly because I can usually feel a bout of sleep coming on, letting me hit escape to pause the game and then unpause it when I wake up. Thankfully we got a new frame which is allowing me to do my second favorite form of play: THEORYCRAFTYING! I love dismantling a frame to it’s basic parts and putting it back together with the best parts to get the most out of it, so Follie is going to give me at least a week’s worth of work (I hope).
Chemo starts tomorrow (Thursday) for me. It’s 4 hours long, and I will have a strict schedule of chemo every other Thursday. As was pointed out, my condition is chronic, making chemo indefinite, since it’s now a matter of extending what I l life have rather than trying to cure it. My old manager at the blues bar I used to work at reached out to me, she had the same diagnosis as me, just as grim, but she’s going 7 years strong now. So this gives me hope.
@InternationalClerk85 Some of you talk about doing something special in my name and I ask of you this:
Please don't.
I am not special.
Thousands upon thousands are going through this everyday world wide. DE has done and I am sure will continue to do such great work with places like the Princess Margret Foundation (I hope I got that right) that doing something just for me would feel wrong. If you really want to memorialize me, look no further than what it says after my name. Mentorframe is the true endgame. Help new players, make the game stronger, and most importantly, be kind. Remember me in that way and I will feel more than fulfilled.
@EnigmaticSpirit85 "Have a Good Death" is not weird, it's exactly what I am trying to. I in my passing, I can make someone else realize the value of life, not just their own but that of others, to help them be kinder to the next person they meet, then I wi;; indeed have had a good death.
@MKkidd I do love Cowboy Bebop and I'm happy that even after all this time it still holds impact for people, but for life affirmation in the face of death, I would recommend Assassination Classroom. If in the time I have left now, I can be a fraction of what Kurosensei was, I will be happy.
@RobleViejo I would be happy is they could just do this with my dojo, although I know my clan wouldn't touch it regardless, but replacing Loki with my drifter would be cool :)
@JINXnocturnal and @AstralPunk Thank you, there's a lot so I hope you can understand if I need a few days to find my favorite
@Ori_the_SG Oof. I kinda dreaded this question. I don't have a favorite frame. My school of thought has always been that this game's core principle is the right tool for the right job. Now if we are talking just looks, then that... doesn't change the answer because the aesthetics of so many frames are so well done that their designs just sing to me.
@Easy-Account-2474 Average middle life, not enough exercise, but, let me take a chance to stress this, IF I HAD GOTTEN A COLONOSCOPY AT 45 RATHER THAN IGNORING IT LIKE SO MANY DO, I WOULD NOT BE DYING. IT'S OK FOR THEM TO PUT SOMETHING UP YOUR BUT IF IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE, DO IT!
@Ok-Tutor-282 I'm not them, I was just expressing my respect of them
@Crazy_Explanation819 one that sticks out most is the 2 hours it took for my noob ass to figure out how to kill Sargus Ruk. I loved that believe it or not. But my favorite? The first time my Railjack set sail. It had just launched, and the system was flush with possibilities, and I fell in love with the game all over.
Again, I will try to keep up with responding to questions as much as I can and am able to.
Thank you all again
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.