Wednesday, December 4, 2013

"Getting tired of your shit, Digital Extremes" - Warframe Community

"You sow what you reap."
"Karma."
"Justice."

People have a lot of wordings for stuff that happen to bad people. Me, I just say, "Death and Taxes". Nothing, other than those two aforementioned, is certain in this life. Maybe change is inevitable too, but let's not stray from the point. I say, things change, and nobody knows what'll happen next.

For Digital Extremes (DE), the creators of Dark Sector and Warframe, I guess they didn't expect that players will eventually fall off their game. They did some damage control over the course of time, but then again, block a water path and it will find and make another. And when I say "damage control", I mean giving warnings, suspensions and deleting threads (in their forums) that actually speak out against the devs, game, or community. I should know, I'm a victim of "damage control".

After getting a 3 day suspension, they put me on a moderation queue that screens my posts. The queue takes 11 to 24 hours to process my post; so basically I'm already a mute or a delayed echo in the forums.

Here comes the good part: after almost a year in Open Beta, the forum is now being flooded by complaints. Good luck. Even as they released in PS4, the PC and the PS4 versions are not in sync, disabling, well, everything between the two communities.

Here's a link I mentioned in a previous post. Again, the numbers are going down, meaning that players are going out and not returning.
http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&jstime=1&appid=230410&from=1364140800000&to=End+Time

Here is the latest review from Eurogamer:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-12-02-warframe-review


And here are some threads that haven't seen "damage control":
https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/137875-a-complete-rework-of-the-foundation-of-warframe/
https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/132972-the-prime-access-discussion-and-feedback-megathread/
https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/136089-u11-xp-rates-are-horrible/

Now please bear in mind that I'm not a hater. Well, I am now. DE themselves turned many of the old players into haters, provides little help to newbies and continuously releases patches, fixes and new material (that need patches and fixes too) to the current players. My WF friends have moved on, I'm alone in my clan, and I've already signed up for release updates for Nosgoth and The Witcher 3.

So long DE, thank you for wasting our time. It could have been great, if only  you had ears.

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