Warframe is seven years strong today, and the Warframe team want to share their birthday in the most generous way they know how — by giving out free gifts and by calling on you to help create the next Warframe.
Free Anniversary Dex Armor Set +
To celebrate this seven-year anniversary achievement with you, The Warframe team are giving away free in-game armour, weapons, and skins. For this year’s special Dex Raksaka armour, all you have to do is launch Warframe and log in. That’s it! Once in, the Dex Raksaka armour, including the Dex Raksaka shoulder guards, chest guard, and knee guards, will appear in your inventory.
That’s just an appetiser. For each of the following weekends in March, you will receive in-game alerts encouraging you to earn the original Dex rewards and a new glyph by month’s end. These rewards include the previous Dex weapons and weapon slots, glyphs, syandanas, skins, noggles, and more.
Calling All Tenno!
The team behind the game originally called upon there players and Community Design Council in 2013 to create Nova, the first community-generated Warframe. Today, nearly seven years later, the same team are calling on players once again — that’s you, Xbox Tenno! — to come together to create one. Drawing from your own initiative, creative instincts, and wild ideas (because there are no dull Warframes), the call for submissions enables you to contribute to the look and feel of the next suit.
A little side note for super dedicated players: The Design Council is a group of Founders and passionate players the development team goes to when they need specific Warframe feedback or ideas. Through forum polls, open calls, and feedback threads, the Design Council has helped shape Warframe. So, if you’re really dedicated, the group has grown over seven years, with invites sent monthly to players who are highly active in the community.
Here’s how the two-part process works: Players can submit their original Warframe visual themes through the forums. The top 10 best themes will be whittled down to one, as chosen by the Community Design Council. Then, independent Warframe artist Eorheit will formally generate the winning theme. A special Alt-Helmet will be designed by TennoGen artist Faven, and then players will be prompted to submit “Ability” designs (Abilities are the four dedicated special powers of each Warframe). The winner of the Theme category and fan artist Eornheit will then be flown to Digital Extremes’ London, Ontario studio to see their creation brought to life!
Other Festivities
Also is launched a special anniversary microsite (find it on Warframe.com) that tells the teams story behind this fantastic game. It features highlighted community memories, big moments and reveals, and emotion-laid player reactions to the game’s evolution during the past seven years. Don’t miss some of these magical moments!
Today’s celebrations offer even more fun… but in the form of merch. You can buy commemorative real-world physical items — a highly stylised Japanese-influenced, numbered poster, and a distinctive seven-year anniversary pin and T-shirt — to show your spirit!
In all, today is a special day that the Warframe team wanted to celebrate with you. Whether it’s through free gifts, collaborating on the next Warframe, taking a stroll down memory lane, or putting on Warframe colours, they are proud of your support through seven wild years of development! Thanks for joining, Tenno. We hope to see you shooting, looting, and levelling up in Warframe soon.