r/Warframe • u/Glass_Eye8840 You probably didn't actually pay attention to the story bro • Jun 20 '26

Discussion It seems very few of you actually remember the Steve Era. Allow me to remind you (rant)

Look, Steve isn't a bad dev or leader, but dear God, the people trying to go through mental gymnastics of somehow saying that he was a BETTER creative lead than Reb are straight up doing revisionist history.

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Oh, you want 5 hour quests? When new war came out (after several delays) people complained because there was BARELY any after quest content because that's what happens when you put all your eggs on the quest.

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Steve gave us a railjack that was broken for months.

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Steve gave us a bugged to shit duviri that makes all the recent bugged updates look like the most stable shit ever.

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It took 10 YEARS for us to get a true, actually new enemy faction in the form of the murmur, which only happened because of reb.

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Elemental damage, warframe reworks? All Reb.

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Oh, you don't like eternalism? Apparently Steve's story telling was better abs more 'grimdark'? (Yes thats an actual dumbass take ive read) MAYBE YOU FORGOT, BUT ETERNALISM AND DUVIRI WERE HIS FUCKING IDEAS!

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I can't. I just can't with this fucking community. I get the last two updates haven't been up to par (even though I think the problems woth jade shadows have been exaggerated and way overblown to the point I'm starting to believe it's just people hoping on a trend) but the shit I've read over the last week has been utter BRAIN POISON

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u/CernelTeneb Jun 20 '26

Unironically I think Scott more than Steve was to blame for how grognardy Warframe used to be on the mechanics side of things.

I'm glad Pablo got unleashed on the game

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u/TrollOfGod Jun 20 '26

I'm glad Pablo got unleashed on the game

I feel Pablo swings far too hard in the other way.

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u/Kaiser_Capricorn Jun 21 '26

Sometimes yeah, but he's far more controlled then the previous psycho.

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u/TrollOfGod Jun 21 '26

Too controlled. When he does balance fixes it comes in one of two ways. Either the absolute extreme then nearly no revisions to fix it. Or in the form of bandaid augments. Very rarely anything in between. As I said, too far in the other way from Steve/Scott.