ive been waiting over a year for a single damage value to be fixed. Take a seat in the waiting room. The waiting room of despair. Nobody will call you up to the front desk. We'll all be waiting here together. together forever.and ever and ever and ever

Yes, it would be nice if the players could help out more. This idea is suggested all the time.

The most obvious problem is that Grey Havens would get a lot of incompetent, half-baked, or even malicious/trolling contributions. This is always an issue in open-source projects, but many of them thrive anyway, because the community imposes a kind of collective quality control. So could open source work for Spiral Knights? One issue I see is that the code could be modified to give players competitive advantages in PvP or economic advantages in PvE. Is anyone aware of open-source video game projects that sidestep that kind of issue?

In short: Are there any successful open-source MMORPGs?

Thanks for pointing out MU Online and its parent company Webzen. It's an interesting business model, with some licensed intellectual property. I can't understand some of the detailed articles, because they're in Korean.

Is it really true that MU Online's source code is open source? And what about the art work? It seems not, to me.

The problem with letting players contribute content is that Grey Havens is going to get a ton of crap. Not just lazy incompetence. Also malicious trolling (reskins with offensive imagery). Also economic manipulation (a level with a 50 treasure boxes). Also complaints and feature requests about the level editor.

The ideal solution is to let players curate the contributions through a peer-moderation system on a test server. The good contributions rise to the top and can be subsequently integrated into the actual game. It could even be gamified, with in-game rewards for contributing work. But this has its own problems (sock puppetry, astroturfing, IP theft, spamming, etc.).

Another solution is to let just a few trusted players contribute. In effect, they join Grey Havens as junior colleagues. Maybe that's what you're now suggesting. That would depend on the quality of those players, and it might engender resentment among those not picked.

After writing this post, I do think that it's good to discuss some more ideas like these. We need creativity to keep Spiral Knights working.

Hi.

The current reality of the game is that GH is only keeping you alive as long as possible. In their own words, and so unfortunately the game will remain, and if it has a lot of support from the community and it would have much more if they were more open.
But is it something complex that happens anyway? Hope is the last thing you lose?

What's more is that when the game fails, or rather the devs stop caring, we'll likely get community servers, which means new leadership for the MMO. But! More interestingly divided leadership. Will you play on the Fehzor server, or will you play on the Bopp server? That sort of thing causes competition that's missing currently. I think that the "death" of the game will be its birth, in the sense that what's holding us back truly is the "developers", or rather, their lack of desire to develop.

The comunity can certainly do amazing things, there's several things like reskins or outside-programs created by the fans of the game that can help with the SK experience.

The problem is that GH doesn't want to change the game, it just wants to keep it alive, not to say they are less open with the community than the core before the D&N mission update.

I honestly wish the fans could keep the game alive by their own, but I hardly doubt GH is interested at all.