[Warframe Twitch Drops 2.0: Now Live!]

   DE communication failure here: DE chose to position this as a DE-led user-friendly improvement for the sake of Warframe players, instead of transparently passing on this Twitch announcement: "With all the new features and improvements in this new version of Drops, we now consider the existing version a legacy product that we will no longer support after February 21, 2021."

   Had DE chosen transparency, they would have appeared compassionate, with an opportunity to say, "We understand most of you prefer automatic drops, unfortunately Twitch will no longer supports that system, so we've decided to improve the drop quality or reduce watch time to compensate for this inconvenience." 

   Clearly the positioning chosen by DE has created a lot of unnecessary confusion/frustration in the community. "One of our core pillars is transparency and so we’d like to let you know what that means: We will remain creatively independent, we expect no changes to Warframe or how our studio operates, and we will remain as dedicated as ever to you, the community, who has been with us every step of the way since we launched Warframe." That's actually not what transparency means, in any dictionary, and any reasonable customer should raise an eyebrow when a corporation puts out statements like "we’d like to let you know what transparency means" next to "we're moving to Twitch Drops 2.0 because it's more user-friendly" .... 

   As a newer player, DE has made a poor impression over the first couple months of my experience. They release a pitiful, bug-filled event that wouldn't sell 100k copies as a standalone game, they release new fashion wings that have users complaining all over the forums and chatrooms... I've seen the YoY decline stats, and I won't be dedicating years of my time to this game, not when PS Store sales and PS Now offer so much more value and respect in exchange for my engagement.