Forums › English Language Forums › General › General Discussion

Search

Three Rings Get You're .... Together.

17 replies [Last post]
Sun, 08/03/2014 - 13:27
Irevolutioni's picture
Irevolutioni

I know this title might sound rude, its up to you how you fill it.

But Its been 3 years now, And I am dissapointed that this game has become a cosmetic aka mode show.
Where Gameplay doesn't matter at all. and cosmetics are way more important why ? This isn't what the players want and I can tell you that 3 rings is tired of hearing the same.
Instead off putting useless promotions all the time you should focus on increasing you're playerbase and then consider putting those cosmetics.
Right now SK is acting like TF2 But, the thing that SK is doing wrong is constantly adding new cosmetics with a low playerbase. Which makes the promotions not even worth buying because who are you going to sell it to.
2 years Ago Promos weren't a common thing players were buying huge bulks off ce and cosmetics were sold for millions off crowns.
Those days the promos had meaning that they were rare and wouldn't be released agian. Which made them so much worth. Right now they don't even sell for 100k Lol.

The reason is because we the community (Off all thats left) are tired off these promotions. As a developer what have you added in these 3 years. That you can be proud off. Sure The pet system was nice. And sure guild halls were a nice addition. But the arsenal stayed mostly the same. This game has alot off potential but its in you're hands to get this game to a better place.
I think even Nick realised this and left this game which I can understand because I would do the same. Comparing games is a bad thing but you have to do this to make the stand its ground. As a developer have you guys ever asked this question ? What have we done for this community where do we stand what is our next goal ?

In these years I have checked the site for updates. And all I saw on the front page is useless promos/cosmetics constantly over and over. My hopes for this game were leaving. The game that I once loved and constantly supported is now all empty with less than 1k players on daily basis.
I don't know how long you will keep this game going. but its not heading the right direction. Its sad to see games like this to be left behind by other games. Because other games do get weekly updated and do get content on weekly basis. Even if its a small wep its still something.

Tl;dr : This game didn't make a any progress at all. It became a dressing game.

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 13:36
#1
Zan-Euro's picture
Zan-Euro

*your

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 13:40
#2
Skepticraven's picture
Skepticraven
↓

"Three Rings Get You're .... Together."

Three rings get you are ____ together.
I can't think of anything that grammatically fits in that sentence.

"Tl;dr : This game didn't make a any progress at all. It became a dressing game."

Any progress at all? What is the time frame for this analysis? We got new tortoguns half a month ago.

" Because other games do get weekly updated and do get content on weekly basis."

Not to sound mean - If you are impatient waiting for updates in this game, go play those games while you wait.

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 13:45
#3
Fangel's picture
Fangel
For a small game, 1k players a day isn't bad.

Also keep in mind that having two/three people programming a video game isn't going to be updated on even a bi-weekly basis. They only really should be working on programming for 8 hours a day 5 days a week, but even in there they should have an hour to eat lunch, and an hour or two in breaks, meetings, non-programming things.

That's 25 hours a week minimum from one person, and 75 hours a week minimum from the whole programming team. Debugging an issue might take up 15 hours of that week if it's bad, or even more time if it has created a trickle-down effect of issues.

We are getting promotions right now as they are much easier to make over playable content in large quantities in shorter timespans. I'll agree that we are getting a little bit too many promotions, but that doesn't invalidate all that the game has become.

In the past three years, we have dropped the energy system, introduced several new playable bosses (including danger missions and shadow lairs), expanded the arsenal greatly (Boss token rewards, event weapons and armors, PvP token rewards), allowed for massive customization of our knight through accessories an costumes, and so much more. The game's only really been around for three years, and it has evolved so greatly. Players only see what they want to see, and if they only want one thing, they'll ignore all the other progress the game has made.

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 13:54
#4
Irevolutioni's picture
Irevolutioni
Skepticraven

Not to sound mean - If you are impatient waiting for updates in this game, go play those games while you wait.

No you don't. so calling 1 year waiting is being impatient ? seems legit.

About those other games yes I do play them, and I do enjoy them allot the reason that this thread is here is that if this promo updates keep coming and no "major update" gets here this game will die off.

About those tortoguns sure new items but currently only available by events.

So many promises were made but none have been added. And if you check steam community hub you can see the player base decreased allot. So did the in game servers. If you guys are fine with these promotions then go ahead the game won't last long. Have fun while it lasts I don't care any more.

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 14:14
#5
Skepticraven's picture
Skepticraven
↓

"Have fun while it lasts I don't care any more."

Then please stop posting rants on a forum about a game you don't care about and move this thread to the graveyard.

"About those tortoguns sure new items but currently only available by events." in response #4
"Because other games do get weekly updated and do get content on weekly basis. Even if its a small wep its still something." in OP.

Consistency. You don't have it.

"No you don't. so calling 1 year waiting is being impatient ? seems legit."

Tortodrones didn't exist in the game a year ago. Nor powerups, nor barriers, nor recon flares, nor apocrea, nor apocrea's weapons, nor grinchlin assault, nor missions (+minibosses). Oh wait, you said events don't count - that leaves a bunch still on that list. Maybe you should play this game more often so you don't miss events (or subscribe to some sort of update feed from them).

*Skepticraven hands Irevolutioni a shovel.*
Care to continue digging your logically flawed argument hole?

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 14:16
#6
Flowchart's picture
Flowchart

I believe the GM accepted word for that blank is "barnacle"

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 14:21
#7
Irevolutioni's picture
Irevolutioni
Skepticraven

That 1 year I was talking about is the gunners update.

And the other stuff that nick had posted one year ago.

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 14:36
#8
Skyguarder's picture
Skyguarder

"But the arsenal stayed mostly the same"

What are you talking about? They added new weapons and materials and don't forget about battle sprites.

"About those tortoguns sure new items but currently only available by events."

There's also the auction house.

"So many promises were made but none have been added."

Those promises weren't even out for a year. The arcade redux was announced in September 2013 while the gunner update was announced in November 2013 (not the actual launches).

"That 1 year I was talking about is the gunners update."

The gunner update announcement was in November 2013. So it wasn't a year.

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 16:19
#9
Welux's picture
Welux

The grammar is strong with this one.
Lets see, we have a 1k-ish playerbase, which is pretty good. We got new weapons not too long ago, and we have giga shades now.
Another case of the person that doesn't want to play another game while they wait. I can imagine you're one of the steam users, yes? you know, that go on every spiral knights announcement on steam and say "Gunner update, all these boxes hur hur hur".

Going out of your way to complain is kinda ridiculous. Play a different game. You're making the game boring by overplaying the game when you're bored of it. So, it's essentially your fault.

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 16:01
#10
Sonosuke's picture
Sonosuke
(~O ,O)~ #Sonosuks

You can't go wrong with the Giga Shades.

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 16:09
#11
Bignastycupcake's picture
Bignastycupcake
Stop playing then

You seem to be one of the people that complain about updates. Stop playing.

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 16:29
#12
Glad-Amparus's picture
Glad-Amparus
I like pie, and you like

If I'm not mistaken 900-1000 players for a tight-grouped company is... a lot of users? When did you have the authority to know the average players of Spiral Knights? While Steam is one source to play Spiral Knights, it does not mean 99% of all Spiral Knights players play off of Steam. In fact you may suffer from I-know-the-game-relies-on-Steam-for-its-users-itis, which is not really that severe, however it can trigger cases of pride for playing Spiral Knights on Steam. I'm also intrigued to say that perhaps you also suffer from Steam Rabies, the deadly disease that makes you say gibberish things like "OMG OOO another STUPID PROMO omg YOU knowe whut I thnk it's time for you guys to sHUT DOWN this game is STUPID" which is highly offensive and, of course, OOO can't understand gibberish so none of the Steam Rabies patients can be understood, and thus, their suggestions never come true. And I wonder why OOO doesn't stop making Promos? Well, Promos are in fact money-grabbers so that OOO can feed its family. You all know how that feels, or I'm afraid to say you might have hatred for your family. OOO knows there is the community: Ragers, Promo-haters, and rich liars. Ragers = "Stupid updates how is this game even still alive LOL I'm only 12". Promo-haters = Barack Obama's speech talking about the pointlessness of the removal of Promos. rich liars = "I will pay OOO 1 million USD to stop Promos" -10-year-old Joe. And now you see the epidemic we are facing here, humanity. Bravo children, you really did it!

Sun, 08/03/2014 - 17:01
#13
Holy-Nightmare's picture
Holy-Nightmare
If you are going to reference

If you are going to reference TF2 I will reference Valve time

Also... that title
These Word crimes.....

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 04:07
#14
Theirillusion's picture
Theirillusion

@Bignastycupcake

When did he say he still plays SK?

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 07:56
#15
Wodanct's picture
Wodanct

Irevolutioni, I believe you have the same problem that rest of us vets from 3 years ago do. The realization of how slow the updates really care. Two things happen to us. We play other games while waiting for updates, or just never return. More often then not the first thing leads to the 2nd one.

Also older vets aren't welcome on this forum anymore.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 10:29
#16
Skyguarder's picture
Skyguarder

"Also older vets aren't welcome on this forum anymore."

No explanation as to why they aren't?

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 12:19
#17
Nethergrim's picture
Nethergrim
Oh lovely, another thread designed to ruthlessly force OOO into

Oh lovely, another thread designed to ruthlessly force OOO into doing what someone wants.

Powered by Drupal, an open source content management system