Talk:The War Within/@comment-98.70.55.202-20161116214508

To be honest I'm not really sure how to take this War Within story revelation. I keep getting the feeling that DE themselves don't fully know where they want their story to go and are making some of this stuff up on the fly. Improv is great and all but it leaves me wondering if there's actually a final product already planned out.

What's been presented in Second Dream and War Within is definitely polarizing for a lot of the community, but it also shows a lot of the values gamers harbor. You've got the shallow gamers who see "ooo! Space ninjas!" and want the game to only be run-and-gun space ninja stuff forever with no backstory, the typical FPS shooter mentality where the game is only supposed to be action, and thus they're upset that there's more to a Warframe than just the ninja Frame. Then you've got the more casual gamers who are playing the game for what the game is, and are intrigued by the story but are getting turned away by the constant nerfs and changes being made to the gameplay, or at least stick around to see what the next chapter in the story will be. There are also the gamers who are playing the game simply because they're greatly enjoying the story as it unfolds, they love the intrigue and the suspense from how vague everything still is. Then there are the hardcore fans eating up everything DE releases, looking for hidden meanings, analyzing everything they can find to try to make connections.

You find this kind of diversity in just about everything, but Warframe's presentation and format make everything stand out more. What used to be mysterious space ninjas are now being revealed to be far more than that, and some hate it, others love it.

I myself am enjoying it, but again, I don't know what to make of it because some of it feels like DE is experimenting with ideas more than delivering a polished story, like they don't know themselves where to fully take the story. Given their propensity for crowd-pleasing, it's questionable. I know they have somewhat of a plan for things, but it's the actual approach that seems to be getting muddled. But, given how vague everything still is, it's too early to make that a definitive call.

Remember, the devs are free to do with their game as they see fit, and Warframe was intended from its inception to be a bigger story than just shooting everything in the face with rifles and fire. We've still got a long way to go.