Warframe uses sneaky tricks to encourage players to log in. Because in addition to login bonuses that you miss out on, your space dog becomes very sad from your absence. What happens when you don’t visit Doggo often, you can find out here.
What’s up with the dogs in Warframe? In Warframe, there have been pets called Kubrows since 2014. They look like a mix of dog, bear, and bat, and have been a big hit with many Warframe fans from the beginning. Even our author Leya Jankowski only came to Warframe because of the pets.
But if you don’t take care of your dog, it will take revenge in a devious way.
If you abandon your dog, you’ll be growled at and bitten
This is what happens when the dog is neglected: When you have your Kubrow, it happily runs around the spaceship and is excited when the player arrives. But if you’ve been away for a long time, it states in the dog behavior description in the associated menu that your dog “growls and snaps at you”.
A colleague from Kotaku made this discovery recently after not logging into the game for a month. His Kubrow “Laddie Boy” was angry and hated him for being absent for so long. This affected the colleague quite a bit, and he felt this was almost emotional blackmail.
Each day that you don’t log into the game to see your dog decreases its loyalty by 10 percent. The less loyalty the dog has, the angrier it reacts to you, and the less damage it deals in the game.
The only way to increase loyalty is to pet the creature extensively and play with it. This results in a 10 percent improvement three times a day. So, it takes at least 4 days for a completely disillusioned space dog to be happy again.
Sad dogs confuse players: Anyone who wants to prevent their beloved pet from hating them must log into the game briefly almost every day. By the way, the Kotaku author is not alone in this dilemma. There are several reports from the Warframe community of confused players wondering why their dog suddenly isn’t friendly anymore:
- Warriorsage (Steam): “Since the last few days, he hates me with all his might when I come home from relic farming.”
- MangalYT (reddit) is worried about his dog: “What can I do to make him happy again? I don’t want him to die and lose him forever!”
- ArkhamBatz (Forum): “She deals 20% less damage and growls and snaps at me. She has only died twice so far, and I always play with her!”
However, all these players have admitted upon request from the community that they haven’t been online for a while, thus plunging their space dogs into deep emotional crises.
Pets in games are an emotional topic
I can understand the feelings of the players mentioned here very well. Because pets – even in virtual form – are an emotional topic for many people. I’m one of them. My worst experience in this regard was in the first Guild Wars. There, you had to try all classes once as a second class, and if you chose Ranger, you got a leopard as a pet. But when you switched classes, there was a message that the pet would then be handed over to the trainer and the special bond between us would be ruined forever.
I couldn’t cope with that at all and chose Ranger as a second class, even though I didn’t want to. And a new pet was never an option because I would have had to give up the poor leopard. The new pets from the later expansions were so tempting. But I just couldn’t bring myself to part with the first pet forever.
Jürgen Horn
Editor at MeinMMO
