As some of you might know, Warframe is in its open beta now for a bit. Its an interessting attemp at free2play, as you can get almost every weapon and every warframe just by playing the game without the need to invest money. Money comes only into play if you want a bigger color palette or if you need more slots for your weapon and warframe locker.
If you play the game you can kill bosses to have a chance for themm to drop a blueprint. Those blueprints can be sold for ingame credits or used to create items, you only need to invest some of the credits you earn plenty from missions and the right base compenents you get as drops in the right places.
You wait a little and you get your item totally for free just by playing a game that you like to play.
Now some blueprints only drop from so called alerts. those are special missions that ramdomly come up and are only available in a certain time limit.
One of those Alerts today gave you the opportunity to get a blueprint for the Glaive.
Warframe is a game that is the result of ideas that werent used for Dark Sector. The glaive was an important weapon in that game and now came to Warframe aswell. The fans were happy about that.
The glaive is like a boomerang that has blades and is in its usage different to any other melee weapon.
It was added like other weapons, available from the shop for real money and as a chance in the alert system.
But people wanted it now and the raging and whining started. "Why cant it drop from a boss" (all other weapons dropping from bosses are considered noob-items)
"Why cant we have an alert for it now?" (everyone gets it right away, no reason to buy it, no money for a good dev)
Today the alert came up, twitter told me about it (they have a twitter feed so you know what drops when, when it comes up ingame).
I made my run, killed the boss and finished the mission to get the glaive blueprint.
But oh well, that alert only lasted an hour and it was at a time where not everyone would be playing due to school or work or just realife making you not see it early enough.
And there was more rage and whining...
So my fellow escapists, what do you think of this little fable? and what do you learn from it?