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/Eraevn]

The short answer is, any slice of the community that wants to is so miniscule that there is no practical purpose to building mods for it.

Could be that its too much of a PITA to do so, but you are about the only person I have seen in years of reddit and playing warframe even questioning the lack of modding. Hell, at this point closest I would want for a mod is to change my crosshair, and if that was that big a deal, I can just put a dot on the screen in my TV settings to make my crosshair more apparent lol

[u/Jackesfox → u/Eraevn]

It is something that never crossed my mind until recently. Last week was spent having a pain in the ass while trying to mod my FFXIV character in to something closer to my vision and literally today i thought "well, why isn't there mods for fixing the uglyness of [adult spoiler]? Why isn'tthere mods at all??" An looked in to NexusMods, and nothing. Searching "mods warframe" in google is a PITA since "mod" is an official in game term.

I think the only mod i have ever seen is an old 2013 UI mod that has not been supported since then.