Warframe is an online shooter by Digital Extremes. The development studio seems to have been sending a player birthday gifts for three years, but he can’t do much with them. And he’s to blame for that.
On Reddit, a player shows a screenshot of his inbox in Warframe on December 19. There you can see a message from the “Warframe Support Team” with the title “Happy Birthday, Tenno!” The content of the message shows 3 credits. The player is sure: This must be a joke.
However, he has only himself to blame, as he later explains in the comments.
“They send me a credit as a joke”
What kind of gift is that? In the screenshot in the Reddit post, you can see 3 credits. This is an in-game currency in Warframe that can be earned through missions and used to purchase blueprints, weapons, and equipment.
“FatCatUwU”, the creator of the post, says he received 1 credit in his first year in Warframe, 2 in the second year, and 3 this year.
“In a few million years, this will be a very regular income of credits,” he writes in the post. In the title of the thread, he writes: “For the third year in a row, [Digital Extremes] sends me a credit for my birthday as a joke!!”
You can see the screenshot of his inbox here:
Why is the gift useless? Three credits are not much. With just one mission, you can earn multiple times that amount. For beginners, “The Index” on Neptune is one of the most rewarding game modes in Warframe, as you can earn a large amount of credits through the rounds. If you choose “High Risk,” you will earn 200,000 credits for a win and 250,000 credits for each additional round won.
Additionally, the player can’t buy anything with three credits. A blueprint for a Warframe weapon system costs between 25,000 and 100,000 credits (via warframe.fandom.com).
It started with the player’s birthday wish
How do other players react to the gift? Many users joke in the comments that it is a solid passive income. “ItsDynamical” writes: “This may be a joke, but wait until you are 100, then the profits will flow.” One person writes: “Don’t spend it all at once!”
The user “Narroh” comments: “Oh man, on one hand, I would like to send a message to the support team to see if I can also get credits as a birthday joke. On the other hand, I don’t want to burden them with nonsense while they are doing their job.”
“FatCatUwU” responds that it is not a good idea to flood support tickets with such requests now and asks players to refrain from doing so. This was once the reason for the “useless” gift.
How did it even come to this? When asked how it all started, he links to a Reddit post from 2021. There he writes that he requested the first credit himself: “I emailed [Digital Extremes] asking for 1 credit for my birthday, and I got my wish fulfilled.”
Other development studios also gift their players. For example, the team behind Lost Ark reached out at the end of 2022 with the message that they wanted to give not just individual players, but all players a gift. However, it didn’t go exactly as planned:
Lost Ark distributes gifts, makes mistakes – Sends out even more gifts directly
