True, we don't expressly have confirmation that they're working on anything. However, it's very heavily implied.

10-2 mission Delved Too Deep gives us a pretty good example: Kora states, "We'll round you up and send you on a mission when you're ready". That's literally the ending to SK at this point, and I'm sure that there is zero chance of a cutoff for the game where we are now.

Speculation is a highly variable action, but if we all start thinking the developers are just taking a year-long money break while throwing birthstone boxes every which way, there's really nobody to release an update for.

Just my two crowns' worth.

You're right in saying that dev/gm statements on developing updates would be nice to have. It's quite a shame that the staff can't drop in every now and then. Though I can understand why they don't; every time they speak up about something in development, someone challenges it not for constructive purposes, but rather just to whine about how they're not being fed enough new content. The "it's just a reskinned FSC" chant is a prime example.
However.
If the Spiral Knights team can produce things like the Wicked hoods, the Kat raiments and Suits, the Venomous Fiend sets, and the entirety of Apocrea for minor updates, the quality of major updates could be and has been tremendous. To the point where even the little things make the mission worth playing (Walking across the chain in Shadowplay was easily one of my favorite parts of that update).

"I'm fine just knowing that you're working on something"

They are working, counting the money that whales are giving them after changing the hexademical values for color on items and changing the two words in the title of the prize box.

Thread just keeps getting better. SEGA was probably just interested in Spiral Knights.. if only they'd open source SK. I'd totally make mods, etc. for at least trivial things like game balance.

@Redmania

Lets not be too mean now sweetheart.

I'd be more into the whole armor balance problem, largely because I think it's really funny when someone joins and the entire party takes damage and says 'lag' every single time someone joins the party. Imagine if we could just tweak the values ourselves and then test it for armor, how much progress we could make on that. I'd give this armor balance nonsense that we've been arguing about for literally two and a half years three weeks tops... and all of the redundant armors (e.g. chroma) would be so clutch for the game to actually use if they did something worth mentioning.

I'll offer my soul to SEGA via their Linked In page if you do it with me. XD The plan is just too funny-

Problem: Fight Beetle needs to know that the game is being developed by the devs

Step 1: Become the devs
Step 2: Tell Fight Beetle it'll be OK.

I will also gladly contribute if SK is open sourced. I don't understand what's up with all the secrecy.
You are clearly understaffed. You have people in the community who are willing to help for free. You still have total control of what gets implemented and what is left out. You can even hide certain portions (eg. the monetary transaction parts) from public access. What do you guys have to lose?

If anything, not having to deal with hacking/pirating is a sign that your game isn't entertaining enough. Nobody is motivated enough to go to the trouble of hacking it.

"I'mma say it before Skepticraven does- "

Nope, wasn't going to mention it again. There are 3 major issues to actually having something come about from it (as stated above across multiple posts).
1. Skillset.
2. Available time.
3. Desire to work on something more interesting.

"[I] am worried they wouldn't actually use [our edits] if we patched"

You came to this conclusion based on...?

volunteer work is good and all but you actually have to know how to program and how to meet a deadline

the road to hell is paved with good intentions