Whose Game Is It, Anyway? How Community Relationships Shape Games - Lessons from Warframe

Explore how community relationships shape game development in this 57-minute GDC talk from 2018. Gain insights from Digital Extremes' Rebecca Ford as she delves into the Warframe team's strategies for collaborating with the community, making strategic decisions, and effectively managing feedback in a games-as-a-service model. Learn about the roadmap, infrastructure, and approaches to fair free-to-play mechanics. Discover the evolution of dev streams, clans, and major game updates. Examine the challenges faced in 2018, including misinformation, data mining, and managing diverse player communities. Understand the importance of player requests, toxicity management, and the cultural shift in development. Gain valuable lessons on fostering a successful games-as-a-service title through community engagement and strategic decision-making.

Introduction
Context
The Roadmap
The Routine
The Simplified Version
Infrastructure
What did we do
Making Fair Free to Play
Dev Streams Clans
Recap 2013
Recap 2014
Overhaul
Second Dream
Taking Risks
Nostalgia
The Mist
Its Shared
Questions
Player Requests
Toxicity
Tools
Challenges in 2018
Misinformation in the community
How early do you talk about things
Conflicting regions
Data mining
Console and PC communities
Players being vocal or less vocal
International communities
Twitch event
Seat at the table
Development cultural evolution