Talk:Founders/@comment-26144423-20150818074642/@comment-184.76.25.154-20150825214758

Founders package items are different because they're people who spent a good amount of money on a game that was so early on in development at the time. Warframe probably wouldn't be where it is today if it weren't for all the people who paid that money and put their faith into a then-fledgling game, hoping to see it flourish. So it makes sense for those items to remain exclusive to sort of honor those players who basically donated their money to DE in hopes that they'd put it to good use.

But Frost Prime? Why should Frost Prime be some sort of status symbol that you were around at the time and able to get him? It's not like people paid any amount of money to get him, unless they bought him or his parts from other players (which you can still do now, by the by, so he's still not entirely unobtainable). It was just an item that was available for a while and is only currently unavailable because of how the Void/Prime reward system works right now, and will probably make a return along with the rest of the Vaulted items whenever it gets reworked. It's only gone for now to make room for other Prime items.

And besides that, if you want to have sort of status symbols to show off how long you've been around or what you've done in the game, there's emblems you can earn from all the major events in the game that you can wear to show off the fact that you were there for it and participated. And you can't sell them either, so they're completely exclusive. Keeping Frost Prime locked away to anyone who came in too late or wasn't able to farm for Prime stuff at the time (I didn't get good enough at the game before I could go for him, sadly, since I was still new to the game) isn't really fair since Frost Prime was never meant to be such.