I think that people underestimate OOO too much. They have already amassed a huge player base in less than 1 year, which is simply amazing. Everyone has to take into consideration that SK is still a very young game, with a lot more potential to grow.

@Xyllka-Mkii Programming is nothing like a puny markup language.

@OP

"Designing concept art for every monster and sketching the stages." - you can still have new content while reusing current enemies
"monsters new looks." - you can still have new content while reusing current enemies
"buttons, gates, arenas and danger rooms." - you can still have new content while reusing general gameplay items
"Drops and chance of things dropping." - I haven't seen many people complain about this, and either way, I doubt it's that hard to draw a little circle icon and give it an effect like periodically increase health or something.

So what we have left is level modeling and debugging.

For level modeling, think about the Portal 2 DLC or whatever. That one that lets you design your own levels? If OOO allowed some way for the community to submit custom levels, and added quality ones into the game, I bet there would be many unique and fun levels to play, even without new enemies.

For debugging, every programmer has to do it. No exceptions. You can't really call yourself a programmer if you don't debug your applications. And by debugging, I don't mean just errors in the code, I mean also including things like keeping everything balanced and stuff.

A puzzle-themed level, anyone?

And was
"Now, do this again. In the next week, to satisfy the whining people who crave new content because it's getting boring."
really necessary? Nobody was asking for weekly updates, etc. etc.

OOO certainly has its own level editor library, just as they have their own models editor library (the same one used by Spiral Spy). Designing new maps would only require some imagination and a good practice of that level editor, which they certainly already have. New features would require new code. Adding maps is just re-editing what's already been done, it doesn't take ages at all.
Small example: for those who experienced already once in their life coding some JAVA graphic application and eventually faced all the annoying Action event/listener shits it requires to make it work properly, there are plenty WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editors that enables you to straightly draw the shape and behaviours of your application without writing a single code line (try Netbeans for example, it's free moreover), identical features exist in plenty development needs, including video games. It would be utterly silly for any video game company to not develop the slightest model editor to create/update their game.
I'm not sure you know much about programming. The only brake OOO could actually suffer of is their small number, hence lower speed and eventually unability to implement and test features at the same time, and sorry, but they're part of SEGA now, that should be over with already.

@Bobomaster
I'm not sure if that was an insult or not? <_>

I know HTML isn't actual programming for a game or anything, but its areound the same sort of concept. I meant to say I know that it isn't easy to just throw in new content every day.

It seems like everybody forgets that the SK team is only consists of about 10 people. <. <

They aren't as big as a company like Blizzard, it takes them a long time to code these things. :/

It took my team (team of 4) more than half a semester to create a 2000 line of code Trivia Game in my Game Dev class...

I do understand it takes time to create content...

Soo.....how bout them CE prices :p (trolling fyi)

Coding that have already been done, I'm a software developer myself on a team of 8, we mantain a proprietary management software for businesses, the original source took something close to 3 years to get out of alpha, but we release minor patches almost every week (bug fixes, small custom work for specific users), and a major update about every 2 months or so( new features), game developing is probably nowhere close to that, but I pretty much doubt they don't have a proprietary level editor, new level design with existing monsters/tilesets/textures don't take more than couple of days for a new map to make, just imagine having something like sc2 map editor, but for SK.

P.s. I do have sc and sc2 mapmaking experience, btw.

it doesnt matter what ppl think of difficulty of task, just stay on topic

u wana know why, ill tell u why..below are the dates of 2 newest bosses that do not cost tons of money and cause tons of deaths. something we consider "new content". the release interval was 1 freakin month according to wiki, now nobody expects that to be kept up, but..its been half a year so the players who have played for a while now, MIGHT EVENTUALLY get bored doing the same things over and over again, with or without accessories

15:02, 2 June 2011 (Created page with 'The snarbolax is a boss. More information forthcoming.')
14:35, 6 July 2011 (Create page for the new boss. Needs content.)

its been mentioned somewhere digged deep down in the forums, the game lacks something to aim for. players always aim for good gear in mmorpg, but in SK good gear ends fast, no worthy upgrades, no nothin(dont rub me ur triple uv opinion, the maximum effects are minor, the price is humongous). its been said that it keeps the game balanced and more skill oriented than gear oriented, however..in order to keep the players from getting bored new content must be released, now that part has been skipped for few months i believe

i hope this causes more desire for new content

It's business, plain and simple. Put out the content or people will quit the game. If you don't have enough people, hire more. If you don't have enough money to hire more, then the game fails.

I'd threaten to quit the game, but I pretty much already have. Haven't logged in for a month and currently see no reason to in the future. I only check in to see if they bothered to add new content. So far, have been disappointed. Will probably give up checking entirely when something more interesting comes out.

IMMEDIATELY!

Sorry, I just want to be sure. We're comparing the developer's dev kit with RPG Maker 2000? I'm just thinking that creating new content might not be that easier. Modeling does take time, and before you even reach modeling, there's the character sheets, design briefs etc. Hell, that's if I'm talking about just one new enemy. Not a whole new level.

And honestly, I think at this point, just new bosses would be interesting enough to hold our interests. Core should be a huge update on it's own, much like WoW's cataclysm expansion where there was changes to the whole game. And in theory, us reaching/getting access to the core, should have a impact on all spiral knights, not just the ones in deep. Maybe a new kinda enemy? I dunno.

/fullyagree #23

i only log on for LD every now and then, dont even use the mist on my other paid accounts anymore, just some krogmo bribe on main acc

I don't understand the point of this topic. Are you actually suggesting that we shouldn't expect OOO to produce new content for this game, when it's something that they, as game developers, are paid to do?

So if a newspaper company suddenly reduced their number of articles and just printed largely blank pages filled with advertisement, do you say "oh stop blaming them, why don't you try researching all these current events and writing so many articles by yourself"?

If we add the core, then game over! No more point of Clockwork runs! Just get on the Skylark and get out!

Just be paitient. Yes, we have been not getting tht much new content. I'm hoping an Admin like Nick and Cleaver post. They could explain. They're not Blizzard!

ADMINS POST HERE!!!!!!

Umm... I have another new content to share it with you.

Ailment
- Possess = your attack to your friend are now vulnerable for a while.
- Stasis = Cannot see health and map for a while.
- Petrified = Completely freeze. Evade it by typing your (Account Name) within 2 second. If you late.. you will die instantly.

Lol.. thats all. Hope you guys enjoyed. If you guys have another ideas, please share :)

People are seriously whining for content already? Christ, they need to stop powerplaying and just enjoy the game. I started near the official release of the game and went inactive for only a few months; came back to two new bosses, shadow lairs, accessories, two PvP arenas, costumes, more new armour and weapons, loadout features, prize wheels..... /list goes on
And in the week I've been back there's already been more content releases, including a new monster/hazard.

One thing that keeps me on SK is that new content is released regularly and implemented well, that affects all levels, not just yet more stuff for powerplayers who blitz to the end, skip half the content then [tart] and moan that they're bored.

edit: @noobowns, don't be thick, the OP isn't actually asking you to make the content, he's making the point that making new content is not easy, and does take time; if it was so easy that it could just be made in two days after a suggestion, then we all could just make it ourselves. If we can't, and are asking them to do so, for our sake (and this especially applies to f2p players) then be patient; it's a time consuming and difficult process.

Either a mindless fanboy or a troll. Just ignore this topic.

I do that w/ bosses except for the release and digitalize part. And the drop rate part. Unlike OOO, we can't replicate their monsters, as they could. That aside, there's a suggestions forum. OOO wants diea, although they may never be read, but a few have! Snipe Hats, Snarbolax sets, and even pets are being thought of. People getting bored super quickly is not OOO's problem, I agree, but there are some suggestions that get put out there. Everyone wants something, many say what they want, but few get what they want, and less are perfectly satisfied. Some people's complaints are redundant and annoying, but until OOO sees it as a problem, it's fine (except for those few furtive Trolls out there...). Don't hate on ideas being thought of. OOO's doing the best it can to release quality gameplay, and gameplay some players wanted and long awaited.

The last new meaningful content to come out was candlestick keep. Although candlestick keep is good, it's been several months since new content came out. (Technically, the shadow lairs is new content, but it has such a high price tag that I don't consider it new content for the masses.)

If there is no new content soon then people will reach the end of FSC and leave. I think that's already happening.