To paraphrase Eurydice: "There are lots of things in the works that we can't tell you about just yet."
Waiting is annoying, but patience is key with this game for now.
Also, The unveiling of the Core changes the whole game and I don't think Spiral Knights is even there yet. More info on the knights or clockworks, as seen in a side story with Arkus, are more likely to come (and probably better since the Core is like... The truth of the game).

@Asukalan

You should believe it because devs always want to add the coolest stuff (to them). As much as I have been a critic of lack of playable content in SK, I think it's more naive to think OOO isn't working on more content. The problem is that they are quite slow even for a small team, and I don't know what percentage of their time went into OCH, but it probably slowed or stopped progress on something bigger like the Core. There's so much I want to add to anything I make, but there's only so much time and resources. It's naive to think a developer doesn't have a bunch of stuff in the works. Content does not get completed linearly, nor does it all get released in parallel.

With that said, I don't think they've put their focus on the right content, and I don't know where the bottleneck is in their pipeline (programmers, artists, or a good producer?), but they need to iron that out.

@Asukalan These promos don't take away from the development much. It is safe to say SOME content is always in development . Take these "pets" for example. There are pretty much just reskins of existing items, even the merchants that sell them are reskins. These, promos, costume etc. These are to keep the art team busy while the other devs make the actual playable content. Therefore, these promos take little if any time away from content development. It's how any well run regularly updated game works.

Asukalan: Eurydice will ALWAYS say stuff like this. Eury works for OOO and Eurys job is to control this forum crowd and make us think that if we wait, wait and wait enough something will come, meanwhile spending money.

Eury will never say something like "Hey, nothing is currently in the works so we decided to put some promo to make you spent more $$"

Take a look at this:
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/forum/8?page=2

"King Krogmo releases Lockdown! - September 14, 2011"
"Clockworks expansion - September 6, 2011" (posted September 2nd).

Claiming OOO ISN'T working on anything is like saying Lockdown (class mods, stages, UI, etc) was all made in the 2 weeks since that clockworks update was the last 'content' update until Lockdown was officially released.

So because they're releasing some of the "art content" like accessories (these mostly come down to models, maybe a little bit of coding for making them attachable to certain armors and tweaking to allow things to scale better when changing heights), other coders/testers AREN'T working on other things like weapon rebalances, or, dare I say it, level/boss content? THAT's naive thinking.

Art content vs Coding content
3d art content, while time consuming to make, is a lot more straightforward to throw into the game once there's a framework to put them in - and in our case, it's the whole "attach things to the player" accessories framework, and that's been around for a while. This means that, since accessories are all set up now, it's easier to add things their artists are making. If you look back, it seems they were planning on having new knights be able to really individualize their characters when they start out. Instead of having older, richer/more established knights miss out on this completely, they release the height mods FIRST, and THEN add it to character creation. The character creation process has been in update for some of the new patches (rescue camp is different, char creation, missions interface) - people starting out now have a completely different experience than I did starting out over a year ago. I was completely-arcade focused, while newer players are guided using Missions. You know why? Because it's honestly more important to always have games be friendly to newer players in healthy MMOG's. Snarbolax (tier 1) was released before IMF (tier 2).
If you feel shafted by the UV update, think about what it would be like if you were a newer/less-privileged player at this moment. Locking UV's on multi-rolls? That's a GOOD thing.

Weapon rebalancing? That's a different ball game and more time consuming. They won't get it completely right all the time (cringe @ Troika line charge attack update 2 versions ago), but I can guarantee that takes a bit of time to get to that point, especially since it involves content that already exists and interacts with other things, too. There's a HUGE gap of time between the times when they took weapon feedback and the actual weapon patch updates.

Full stage creation? If you want more interesting stages and enemies (while I don't have it yet, I hear Crimson Hammer was amazing fun), that takes the focus of the whole team. There was about a month between the Snarbolax and the IMF updates, and there was pretty much nothing announced between them. By the time you'll see a "sneak peek" announcement, they're probably already nearly done developing it.

In my observation, their current updates are focused towards newer players. They'll get back up to speed with the players that are further in soon enough.

I said something similar yesterday, and eury's reply has convinced me otherwise. I think I downright offended her with my comment (which wasn't quite as detailed as yours) and she chastised me nicely, and made some good points. We don't know what is happening, and to assume that we do, or that they are sitting there thinking of creative ways to bilk us of our coin is, well, arrogant. I'm more inclined to wait and see a little while longer, and go from there.

Re: Holla's post

> 1. Binding-this simply was a shock to many players as people were no longer able to buy 5 star gear right off the bat, The crafting industry died making recipes less useful. The reason for this as stated by 000 was to stop people from reaching tier 3 so easily which I had to agree because it was too easy. That being said they lied right to our faces when they released the supply depot which allows us players to Buy 5 star items right from 000 for 3500ce. I still don't get why 000 did that. They went and undercut everybody by doing that and made 5 star items which are already a pain to sell 10x harder to sell.

Solution- Unbind prices are a dam rip off to simply get rid of gear you no longer want or need. My suggestion is you lower the prices by half on each listing. This will allow players to buy more 5 star items and not only allow player to actually afford to unbind there stuff therefor reducing scamming from people who pay unbind prices and the person runs off. Plus remove the supply depot overprice listings for gear. It cost much less to craft on your own and its undercuts countless amount of people trying to sell for just a little over unbinding prices. There is simply no point for this thing to be here does nothing for the game.
---> if they change the unbind price, they have to change the price in the supply depot. I don't foresee that happening.

> 2. Guild improvements- This was already stated by Dancijen and Its practically a no brainier. Why is it so hard to improve guild hall with a few simple features such as a board of some sort. Lets make it into a place to go rather then a damn ghost town. It took you guys almost a year to implement activity logs which made it easier to boot inactive players. This is something the players and myself included want, so for cripes sake make us happy will ya.

---> From the reply i received yesterday regarding this, and what went unsaid and between the lines, I would wager we will see something along these lines sooner rather than later.

> 3. Content- This is really what the game truly needs to thrive. Lets start off with the bosses. What is there is great i mean each boss is so different from the next and you really need to switch strategies for each one which makes it so fun and special. After a year of playing tho these bosses become old and lose what made them so great. You could count Seerus as a boss as well but he is only accessible to the paying players which limits the game for quite a lot of people. Missions failed to provide us with truly enough to do. I did them all in less than a week and prestige is just the same thing over and over again. There were some good moments here but you just took what you already had and just called them missions which made me lose some respect for ya. Shadow lair- At first i thought it was joke but after playing it I was really shocked at how awesome they were. The downside of the whole shadow lair thing was just how slim the picking were for gear not to mention zero stuff for gunners.

Solution- Start pumping out content this game is a year old and has zero to offer to people who have played the game for a extended amount of time.
With a few bucks you could breeze thru everything in the game in less then 3 weeks. New levels, Bosses, Missions anything just give us something to do.

---> Hopefully we see some more content. the good news is the content that is released has been quality, so we know that the next content release will be quality as well. Ideally we see more of it, but until then, we can only wait.

4. Auction house- Could use some minor changes maybe the ability to search for specific unique variants. Other than that I have no problem with it.

---> + 1 to this, that would be solid.

5. Reduce Crafting prices- Currently I think prices are a tad high for the free to play player grinding endlessly to upgrade your gear won't keep players playing eventually they will lose interest. I think we need to give people a hand here because its too expensive if you ever truly want to get every gear in the game or just to get to T3.

---> Just think of the uproar that would cause. Sure, it's great going forward, but what about those of us who have crafted all there is to craft? now, I don't have an issue with this, as i see the benefit to the game from it, but the uproar...

6. Gear balancing- Honestly this is the biggest issue I have with the game. Why is it that only handful of gear is actually useful. I don't think I ever seen a dang iron slug used ever, I have been playing for a year too. It's time to make every single gear in the game useful so that we actually feel a need to go out and get it or make it. For god sakes you made brandish lines so much better and soon after everyone wanted brandishes do the same for other stuff as well.

---> I'd say that quite a bit more of the gear is usefull than you think, just not in the same way. Some gear doesnt give you buffs, but offers different defense. The iron slug has a buff coming, that has already been noted by Nick, so i think it's safe to say this is being worked on, as well.

7. Advertisment- This game needs to start getting the word out. Its so special and I don't want to see the game die because I believe it has potential to become one of the top MM0s. It just needs more players to get to that point not to mention more people to sell our stuff to as well as more people to play lockdown with as well. I mean at most lockdown has 30-80 players playing that's pretty sad for a MMO. I had more people in my gym class in high school then lockdown ever had playing. Guild vs Guild is empty 90% of the time. Get the word out people we need to make up for all the people we lost lets get people to play spiral. I believe more people equals a better gaming experience. No offense to anyone but I really want to see some fresh faces. I can't go to Auction house without seeing people I know which speaks to how small the game truly is. Not to say that there is anything wrong with this its nice to see people you know but its time for new people to come about.

--> This is what making OCH an add on and pay content was about. it allowed them to get more notice on steam, and i hope that this style of content and item release continues in this way. THe only change to make from it is to make that content also tradeable in game for those who use Kong, or simply SK on its own.

8. Lockdown- Gonna leave this one alone its already has been talked about to the death.

---> im going to add something here. Not enough people play T1 lockdown, but my guild and i have been playing it quite a bit, and we've had some amazingly fun matches. Blueheron, Mohandar, Tdlob and several others are mainstays in T1 LD, and man, let me tell you. SO. MUCH. FUN. Balanced to a certain point, as well. I have a guildmate, Dezmodez, who routinely breaks 3-4k damage using a heavy hatchet. People can say that proto hammer unbalances, but Dez doesnt use one, and is the best t1 striker out there. Try it, i promise, you will enjoy it.

9. Rare items- This game has very very very very few rare items. Its pretty sad that the only thing that is consider truly rare is a Darkfang shield which is solely for showing off more so then use. Kat Hat is no where to be found, Love trinkets are no longer rare. Blacken crest became a Vana reward. Honestly what do we have simply nothing. Make bosses drop rare gear or something for god sakes give me something to want or give me a reason to keep playing vana over and over again.

---> Difficult to implement, I think. If rare drops come from bosses, at what rate do they drop? with the amount people farm bosses, even with a tiny drop rate, eventually these items would lose their rarity.

10. Core- Three words, WHERE IS IT!

---> No. Not yet. too much to see and do before hitting the core. It was mentioned somewhere in this thread that there is so much lore to expand on before opening the core. The history of the Owlites, Arkus, Tinkinzar, the crimson order can still be followed up on etc. OCH was only the Order's weapons master, not even a guard. We can explore the Spiral Order's history, there will be rescue camp missions, all cool stuff like that. This game has massive potential, and I am hopeful that this is realized BEFORE opening the core. The Core seems very much like an end, and I don't want that, TBH.

****I have been playing for over a year now, and when you played it all to the death, you start talking to people and you start trading ideas. I am sick of talking about what I like to see. If one out of the ten things get address well then i think i did my job. I wouldn't be shocked to see nothing is change and 000 continues to do whatever they feel like. I hope 000 does something to keep me playing because as of right now its not looking so good, and Daiblo 3 is looking better and better each passing day. Feel free to say whatever you like my ideas are merely my own and I don't speak for the entire player base. If you believe differently then lets hear it but be nice about it lets make this thread productive rather then just another pointless thread.

---> I'm very nearly at one year as well, and while i see where you are going with this, I would ask patience. I don't want to see some great players (you and I have had several dealings, and I like tallking to you) leaving. Maybe take a break for a bit, but come back and check up on SK. I see good things, if we can just stick it out some more.

1. Just add the price of unbinding to the price of the item...durr. Plus, almost everyone you see has 5 star gear now.
2. With as many rants with the Guild Improving, they're obviously working on it.
3. Yeah we need a few more bosses. Not just missions..but yeah. That, I agree on.
4. For UV, might be hard to code. But the AH time should be shown rather than Very Long, Long, etc. This...is a maybe...
5. Crafting Prices are fine. Nothing more.
6. The gear balancing and reports are provided by the players obviously and the people are thinking what is a good way to balance.
7. Steam is a huge leap for that. Though I think they rather work more than to let out more advertising.
8. Lockdown. You either have the gear for it or you don't. I just play for the coins for recipes. And there's that bombing arena. There you go.
9. ...Actually I do hope there is no more rare gear.
10. The core is a lie...just like the cake.

TL;DR: Agree with 3 and somewhat 4.

i feel like quitting cause no one will shut up -_-

I stopped reading the OP after the first sentence. I already agreed with the title.

If you keep players waiting too long, they will not be happy. This makes them quit, therefore decreasing OOO income. (Cocosnake is a great example). You wouldn't want players to go dominatrix and start hacking, hm OOO?

read this guys http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/52008 i think this guy is onto something i agree with everything you said i took the time to read it

+infinite to rommil, as long as I see a new grindable profitable boss run along with those dungeons.

BAM!

Back foul, undead creature, BACK!!

I for one dig the guild hall update. I've never seen so many people just chilling out and running around like it was a playhouse.

What NJ said^