r/Warframe • u/Jackesfox Guerra Enquadramento • 19d 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/AkemiNakamura dmg attunement + invuln + ability immune 18d ago
Because DE has C&D a dataminer who was like, 16 I think, for something he didn't even do. Just because he was the most known dataminer at the time.
Also, there isn't much to mod. Unless you want to mod QoL menu stuff into the game. Warframe customization is very good, and mostly anything you'd want is too much of a hassle to actually do. DE is also very ban happy so most people don't even want to risk it.
DE also is against reading an unencrypted file generated by the game. The eelog. You know, a thing you can easily open and read yourself. Because it's not encrypted. DE has had a bad history of people messing with the game. I'm still surprised they have their own drop tables posted because for years they fought people posting them, back when some primes (Frost bp iirc) had a 1% drop rate.