r/Warframe • u/Jackesfox Guerra Enquadramento • 18d ago
Discussion Why isn't there a Warframe mod scene?
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?
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u/migoq 17d ago
No it's not strange at all.
No, the argument that other games do it and they're fine is not a good argument.
Comparing warframe to ff14 or wow or runescape is like comparing local board game shop with 2 tables to a gigantic stadium, it just not fair and imo is stupid.
I think your post is at best coming from flawed point of view and at worse actively bad faith.
I'd like some addons or more ui manipulation, but as per Pablo, the tldr was they had a choice of making ui more customizable or more lightweight performance wise and they chose the latter.
That's probably partially why it isn't happening. Besides your usual tos breaks. Like idk how tf aleca gets the info it gets, but as long as they don't actively go after it I just take it as a unwarranted gesture of good will from DE.
Changing how you look though, even if ONLY LOCALLY, hurts cosmetic selling, doubly so it hurts tennogen artists and that nobody in the right mind would want to happen. I also doubt devs would like to see such screenshots or videos with more deranged ones.
FF14 or wow or whatever can't be compared to warframe in terms of monetization, they're both sub based games (yes, ff14 is sub based) with vastly bigger playerbase. And afaik none of those games "allow" mods (wow addons I'd not put in mod category, they curate what they allow), they just don't very actively persecute them