Events are fun, they give players something new to do, something limited, this creates excitement, it's creates value through rarity. Events are a great tool to keep players interested but I feel spiral knights has some really unbalanced and unfun events.
It's not because of the content in them, but the way they're structured and some of the items you can get from them. The whole reason I've come to make this post is because vana has been kicking my butt. I have okay gear, but I wanted to set out to really min-max myself, I needed a little more of an edge. So I took to the wiki, what's gonna be the best armor for me? Oh, it looks like the black kat set looks pretty damned good. The only armor with a High stat bonus in the whole game.
Except you can only get the mats to make that set during the Kataclysmic Confrontation event, which happens about once a year. In the past the event has lasted anywhere between 8 and 14 days. As a player looking to become competitive things like this greatly hampers my enthusiasm to continue playing knowing that I won't be able to get this armor for likely 10+ months. That's not fun, that doesn't keep people playing.
But that got my thinking about a lot of the spiral knights events. What I said at the top about events are true, but in a situation like spiral knights, where content is lacking and Grey Havens need to be vying for players to keep playing, especially in ways that aren't high on dev time. I feel like a lot of the events would be great permanent editions to the main game. It would add substance. There is a large portion of content that a lot of players never see because they quit within a few months of playing.
Think about all the added content from
Kataclysmic Confrontation
March of the Tortodrones
Shroud of the Apocrea
All great parts of the game that go largely unused except for the short times then the events are running, and I just think that's a waste of resources on SKs part, given where it's at right now.
Draycos brought this up previously and I continue to agree with it.