I'm haven't been playing SK for months now. It got stale, but I just wanted to take a peek at the updates to see if anything was happening.
Lo and behold. Another prize box update. I checked through the news section and the past NINE updates in a row have just been box promos. They are released about every half month/full month which is about the same as other mmos. But no, instead of new content SK just gets boxes.
If SK actually produced *actual* content, I would have stated playing again to experience it, and would probably become addicted again. But ofc, they release these costumes that add nothing to the game except to make a tiny, tiny portion of the playerbase look snazzier. If even that. Everyone is getting bored of the game. Less and less people search for SK showing that it is losing popularity due to nothing happening
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=spiral%20knights
Idk what their business plan is, but it isn't working. SK just seems to be a failing game that is still alive since it injects Sega with a small amount of revenue. But really, the game is just going downhill right now, it's just sad to see a very unique and fun game die such a dumb death. Three rings is either gonna get their act together or the game will start to fail enough that it gets shut down.
This is just very sad.
Your points are not wrong, but we've had literally hundreds of threads like this over the past four years.