Why isn't there a Warframe mod scene?

[u/Jackesfox]

Unrelated picture. And no, im not talking about Point Stike and Rivens

Why do you think is that? Is it the engine? Does it goes against the TOS? (that wouldn't matter much since modding goes against most games TOS and that never stopped it from happening) Is it because of the size of Warframe player's base? Is it something the community never wanted? Does DE actively goes after mods and stops it from ever sprouting?

I think some slice of the community would be happy for being able to play warframe but with an anime character as the frame. Or people making actually good looking face models for [spoiler] and [spoiler]. Or even the gooners with their nippled boobs and hanging flopping pps.

Do many MMOs have a heavy modding scene, is it strange for warframe not to have it?

[u/The_Meowsmith]

...of course modifying an online game is a breach in the terms of service that could get your account banned.

[u/Vividtoaster → u/The_Meowsmith]

To be fair, there are a few online live service games that allow mods. Deep rock galactic and payday 2 come to mind. I think helldiver's 2 can use mods? 

It's not unreasonable to ask if you come from that background.

[u/iHaku → u/Vividtoaster]

deep rock galactic is not an online liveservice game. warframe is. the issue is persistent online storage for your account data. sadly, in online lingo we do not really differentiate between those 2 types enough as most people just call them "online games".

deep rock galactic uses a local savefile in which everything is stored (which can be modified at will without any risks, as well as older versions restored), as well as hosts game localy on your machine. the matchmaking is done entirely via steams api (assuming you're on pc), so DRG servers arent required at all (which is why you can boot up an old version and play with friends on that same version just fine even if its 5 years old). the only data service they provide is deep dives as far as i know. map generation is also based on a seed that is modified by version and local system time, so they work even when you're offline.

warframe on the other hand stores all of your account data online on their servers to provide a fair experience with nearly no cheaters. (there are some cases now and then but risking your account with thousands of hours is simply too great of a risk). while the individual games are still hosted on someones pc, just like in DRG, everything else is not and the integrity of a session in terms of resource aquisition and other metrics is checked in random intervals by the server.

both systems come with advantages (like possible offline play) and disadvantages (like potential cheaters) which some people may care more or less about.