Last Friday, Digital Extremes held a developer stream and talked about why the major update for Warframe has taken so long.
The Why Within
Players of the space shooter Warframe have been eagerly awaiting the next major update called “The War Within” for several months, which will advance its storyline, provide more information about the previously unseen Grineer Queens, and add new gameplay elements.
However, it was postponed after the initial announcement and later divided into smaller updates to allow more time for the actual quest and to keep the players’ waiting period as short as possible. However, these were postponed multiple times, leading to increasingly loud criticism within the community.
Therefore, developer Digital Extremes addressed the many questions regarding the reasons for the delay. They admitted that they might have been a bit too excited about their own ideas for “The War Within” and shared them with the community much earlier than would have been wise. According to their own statements, they shot themselves in the foot.
They had already mentioned the upcoming update when “The War Within” was not even close to being fully developed and thus triggered an early hype among players. It was clarified that the multiple delays were purely for creative reasons. They were simply not satisfied with the progression of the quest and its consequences, did not meet their own standards, and therefore kept going back to the drawing board.
However, they have now reached a point where everything unfolds as they would like it to, and a large part of the team is working on completing the quest, which also includes new systems and mechanics that have not yet been mentioned.
