Talk:Excalibur/Prime/@comment-199.216.246.16-20180524165622/@comment-77.100.27.18-20180604194635

Excalibro Prime as DE's intellectual property can be "brought back" at any time.

However, DE, and by extension, Warframe, succeeded because of an influx of PC players purchasing Founder's packs. You can find interviews online where they allude to this, that the Founders kept the salaries paid and the coffee flowing, etc. DE made a promise to Founders; there was no "contract" other than the standard agreement for digital purchases and a deadline for purchasing, not unlike what you now call prime access. There is no legal reason they cannot bring him back, he is their intellectual property. They could make a lot of money if they did. But I believe they will keep their promise.

I believe DE will not bring Excalibro prime back, because they are a company with integrity. Excalibro Prime's exclusivity to founders is a hugely appreciated gesture. DE's way of saying "Thank you for funding us to allow us to make the game we struggled for a decade to make."

As a player who mains Excalibro Prime, he is of huge sentimental significance to me. I put my faith, and my money into this game, because I saw the potential of what it could be. I saw developers who were ready to listen to their community, who made a game not because of the cash flow potential but because they were truly passionate about what they do. And they risked it all to make it happen.

Excalibro Prime is the first, and easily the worst looking Prime frame. I'm pretty sure it wasn't until Rhino Prime that we got Primes with improved stats; prior to this, Prime variants came with different polarities but were identical stat wise. Excalibro Prime existed in a time before there was even Forma in the game. So that extra polarity was a big deal.

I've played this game on and off since 2013. It's a game I know I can always come back to, and there'll be something new, or cool to enjoy, or even just something old that's been polished and given a new coat of paint.

My advice would be not to get hung up on Excalibro Prime. Let us founders have our most iconic badge of honour, for being a part of what made this game succeed. Everyone is getting Umbra, so that everyone can have a more powerful variant of Excalibro, and hopefully he'll be more powerful than Prime. But I'll stick with good old Void Key face Excalibro Prime, because playing him will always mean more to me than any other prime in this game. I think DE understand this too.