Gambling, noir detectives, and urinating robots: Warframe's long-awaited Tau update is unlike anything I could possibly have predicted
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Live-service games are leaning harder into weird, authored worlds to keep attention from fragmenting. For any product with a content loop, the bar is moving from incremental updates to sharp, differentiated narrative bets that reset player expectations.
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