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DE please hire me I've been stuck in the same job for six years. I can't draw as good as Liger but I'll make you three stupid pictures an hour for a livable wage and dental coverage. Call me baby

@[DE]Megan Before I say anything else, may I make one more suggestion? If this is really about the community celebrating the game's 10 year anniversary, find a way to make these packs gift-able from one user to another. The reason platinum has worked so well for you is because it can be traded, allowing users who are less well-off financially to contribute to the game's economy by investing time into getting items to trade for plat, which in turn makes space for plat to retain its value while those users are able to expend it and get the premium cosmetics/assets that they could not get otherwise. Yes, the people that buy plat/prime access/supporter packs directly support you guys, but it's all those other people that couldn't otherwise do it that stick around because of your superior system and help keep this community huge and thriving. If this is about celebrating all of us, let those of us that are more well-off in the real world help the friends we've made both in and around the game celebrate too. Now that said, the price of these packs is still very out of touch with what the average person can afford within reasonable expectation. I would highly, highly recommend that future heirloom packs, or anything claiming to be about bringing the community together, be priced in a way where the main subject of value is considerably more reasonable. If you want to throw in a $150 pack with discounted platinum and regal aya and a personal message from Ordis and a Wukong fidget spinner and a video of Reb quoting an episode of Kill La Kill by heart, awesome, I am sure plenty of people who can afford it would love to get it. But man, two skins, man. You know? I don't think that really needs to get explained any more than it already has. I've given more money to Warframe than any other game I've ever played because I feel the general lack of a squeeze to get what I want means you deserve more of it, and that's a sentiment I've heard far and wide in all parts of the community over the last ten years. I realize maybe that doesn't always play out in the accounting department, but that image is so, so vital to you guys having the kind of unprecedented freedom to make all this crazy S#&$ in an industry that generally likes to stick devs and consumers alike in a vise. Anyway, tl;dr, it is what it is, so at least let the pack be gifted so more of the community can enjoy it. S#&$, I'd buy ten if you did that and also threw 30%-50% of the profits into the charity pool you had going.

Bless you. Any chance on an ETA for all the tracks? You guys absolutely knocked it out of the part with this one. The lab reveal with the Vessel head and the swelling vocals gave me chills and was the moment several friends I showed the panel to said "F- it, I'll try this game out." Absolutely stellar stuff.

Something that keeps coming up with the people defending it in this thread- I'm not sure where the assumption comes in that people are mad just because it's overpriced, or just because there's FOMO. Are there some? Sure. But just like you wouldn't want everyone who spends their money on these packs to be called a simp or a sellout, you shouldn't just pile everyone under the same extreme so you can write it off. At the end of the day, these are two skins being sold with excess fluff for the price of a full video game. Under the context of it being a communal celebration for all players. That sentiment has been in all forms of their marketing, be it verbal, on website, or in the trailer. But you only see the price, and the supposed rationale for it (things you don't want) when you actually go to acquire them. Had the skins been introduced right out the gate as a "supporter pack," you'd probably have a lot less complaints, although I think most would still be valid. That's not what these skins opened with. Hell, I was checking the in-game market for a solid 20 minutes at 2 PM before someone let me know they were web purchase only. Bit of an extra shock. That whiplash is the problem here. Players set up for a "celebration" of Warframe that then come face-to-face with an irrationally high bill. Yes, the price is nuts. Yes, the packs are set up in a semi-predatory fashion. Yes, the FOMO sucks. But the crux of this is the communication issue wrapping all of that up into a neat bundle of "bad feels." Consider: A friend invites you to a party celebrating your friendship, and tells you they're supplying all the food. You eat, you have a great time, etc. Then they tell you if you want to stay further, you need to foot the rest of the bill, and that bill is four times higher than any dish you'd ever have bought knowing the price ahead of time. Do you NEED to eat more? No. Do you NEED to participate to enjoy the night you've already had? Of course not. But now imagine your friend just said up front that certain dishes were something you'd have to buy, and that they'd be unusually expensive. Well hey you know what, maybe you're ok with spending a little extra on your friend to support. F- it, right? It's been a good run so far. It's that initial context and setup that matters. More importantly, all this could be avoided if you could get the dish without all the weird little scallops in it. Sure, DE isn't our "friend," but I'd argue that their relationship with their community is better than most, and that means this warranted a little more foresight if they didn't expect people to feel stung. We've all played the same game. We all watched the same Tennocon stream just now. I think it's pretty fair to say the hard-working devs at DE have deep feelings on this relationship too. It's OK to have a dialogue about how this, and further promotions, could be handled better.

I know it's text and all, but I was being sarcastic, my dude. Check out my other posts in the thread : P I'm right there with you. I've always been a huge supporter of DE, and as someone who also works in this industry I've always used them as an example of how to do F2P better when talking with my coworkers/superiors. I've directly referenced their practices in monetization and accessibility in project-wide emails, with screenshots, wiki articles, gameplay breakdowns, the like. I make more money than mr. "family working man" Moon probably does. I could afford this. That doesn't mean turning my brain off on value, practices, or ignoring my friends who definitely can't. Friends who all support Warframe, too, and some have even longer than I have. It's not just shameful and out of touch, it's frankly borderline uncharacteristic. Unfortunately I can draw a direct line from this through other, lighter attempts at the same thing over the last couple of years. And that's ultimately what it comes down to. It's not about the money, or the content, on their own. It's about how the pack was presented and what it represents. I completely agree with you, and I think if they don't address this then this needs to become a permanent black mark on their record- and that's not something I say with any excitement or joy. Today should have been about the community, not about squeezing more money out of people that already paid and dedicated parts of their lives to what's otherwise a beautiful expression of art, community, and imagination.

I guess it could have been worse. It could have been $90 for Kaithe armor. 🫠

My condolences to your family

100% in agreement. I don't care about Regal Aya, which honestly I already felt was pushing the line but I could ignore since I could still get the primed stuff in game. I don't care about the bonus plat, I'd rather just buy a plat pack. I don't care about the sigils, or the emotes. The skins/attachments looked gorgeous, and I was more than happy to drop hard-earned plat (either via time spent getting primed items for trading, or real life hours worked) on them. Would even be fine dropping an unusually large amount of plat on them. Plat being tradeable allows for accessibility for less financially flexible users and that's what makes it great. This though? This is incredibly offensive. If you wanted us to support you by spending 90 dollars CAD, then ask for us to do it up front. Don't give me a live hype-up about how it's about celebrating with the community. I literally just bought Armored Core 6 for less than you're asking for two skins. Especially after I just spent money on tickets for the event in the first place. I love DE, I love Warframe, I have ten years and over 10000 hours in this game. But holy crap. This actually was such a slap in the face I couldn't focus on the sound panel or the community collab at the end.