As you get ready for the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next month, don't skip a great talk from the team at Digital Extremes that breaks down everything they've learned about community management in 5 years of operating Warframe! This is a big deal because Warframe is a cross-platform free-to-play game, and in her Business & Marketing track talk on "Whose Game Is It, Anyway? How Community Relationships Shape Games: Lessons from 5 Years on the Front Lines of 'Warframe'" live ops and community director Rebecca Ford will share insight into how the game's community has been nurtured and built up. Attendees of this talk can expect to learn how best to work with a diverse, unpredictable community, how far to take transparency, how to use community feedback in a fast-paced dev cycle, what to do when decisions fail and succeed, and more. It promises to be fascinating, especially if you're a community manager or working on a live game, so … [Read more...] about Come see the Warframe team share community management tips at GDC 2018
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What Destiny 2 Can Learn from Warframe
Bungie released Destiny back in 2014 that quickly became one of most played games of the year. The game saw players invest hundreds of hours into the game to uncover every possible secret that it had to offer. A few years later down the road, Bungie launched Destiny 2 and it felt like all those hours put in the 1st game did not matter at all. Warframe was not really a success story from the start. Only a few players played the game when it first released back in 2013. However, with the constant updates and improvements, the game grew steady and became one of the most played games out there. What Destiny 2 Can Learn From Warframe Bungie has not really been on top of their game when it comes to Destiny 2 – with lack of endgame content, microtransactions, lootboxes, etc. Obviously, Bungie had to face community backlash across the social media: You ruined this game catering to casuals and PVP players but the PVP is the worst of the 2. Everything feels weak Supers do not recharge as … [Read more...] about What Destiny 2 Can Learn from Warframe
Why Digital Extremes is finally reworking Warframe’s level progression
The developers at Digital Extremes, makers of free-to-play loot shooter Warframe, aren’t strangers to change. What started five years ago as a third-person shooter set in an endless series of corridors has grown to include space combat, a wildly unexpected story, its own open-world zone, and more. Some of these new ideas work better than others, but they always have one thing in common: they’re new ideas. The bolted-on plots and playgrounds are great for attracting attention from new players and attention, but as a result older features often take a back seat to the new. That changed in a big way earlier this month when Digital Extremes revamped and re-tiered more than 150 of Warframe’s firearms according to their practical and desired power levels. Tiers in the rain "A lot of the weapons have really outdated tiering, so to speak," Digital Extremes’ community manager Rebecca Ford said of the reason behind the changes. "So a new player can get access to one … [Read more...] about Why Digital Extremes is finally reworking Warframe’s level progression
Warframe’s Shrine of Eidolon update launches this week, brings two new titan boss fights
Warframe's latest free update, Shrine of Eidolon, launches on PC this week, developer Digital Extremes has announced. Shrine of Eidolon further expands on Warframe's recently added open-world Plains of Eidolon map, adding two new boss encounters and a high-flying new method of transportation. Warframe's new boss-stylee creatures are known as Eidolons - mysterious titans that wander the Plains "and loom over the people of Cetus". These, according to the game's lore, are fragments of the mighty Sentient, "a deformed creature, sent from some dark fold of distant space, crushing towers and citadels across Earth...". The Plains of Eidolon map is already home to one titan - the Teralyst, which rises from the water every night - and the update introduces the Gantulyst and the Hydrolyst. The Gantulyst "wields an enormous boulder for an arm and radiates powerful beams of Sentient energy". The Hydrolyst, meanwhile, is a "an omen of impending natural disaster. Stories describe a distinct, pungent … [Read more...] about Warframe’s Shrine of Eidolon update launches this week, brings two new titan boss fights
Why now is the best time to play Warframe – the free-to-play shooter with 26 million registered users
What is Warframe? On the surface, Warframe is an incredibly easy sell: play as a ridiculously powerful cyberninja (known as Tenno in the game’s lexicon) and assassinate your way across the galaxy, harvesting loot, hoarding cash, and growing ever more deadly with every kill. And the best part? It’s free to play and available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. If you haven’t been so enticed by that elevator pitch that you’ve closed this tab and are already playing Warframe, let me elaborate. You may be wondering, for instance, why if Warframe is such a great package it’s not universally acclaimed? Why isn’t everyone you know playing (and raving about) it? Why is now the best time to play Warframe? Want to find the best free-to-play games? The 25 best free games to play right now Warframe wasn’t always the sleek time-devouring machine it is now. It launched with significant bumps (as, in fairness, do most online games) but more importantly … [Read more...] about Why now is the best time to play Warframe – the free-to-play shooter with 26 million registered users