Spiral Knights - So, why do we still have outdated screenshots in the "Media" section?

So, why do we still have outdated screenshots in the "Media" section?

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Wed, 12/28/2011 - 03:25

Mejezfeld

For some reason a lot of the trailers/promos for this game have a lot of dummied out armor/helm variants in them and the screenshots in Media aren't any better.

The question is, WHY? It seems a bit unethical if you ask me, someone could easily actually want one of those now dummied-out items only to find out he/she can't get them. There is such a thing as rules against False advertising, and I'm fairly certain these count...

Let's have a look at some of these dummied out armors/helms/content...

1. First image shows three Knights in Wolver Den and one of them has the old Royal Jelly Set- also seen is what looks like a Cobalt Line Helm (you can tell from the "nose") with a personal-colored ponytail... last time I checked, that line only ever has ponytails in WHITE.

2. Third image has the recently dummied-out Sealed Sword's glyph/glow and THAT ACCURSED KAT HAT. IF I SEE IT ONE MORE TIME...

3. Forth image shows the old Jelly Armor- Now, the old Jelly and Royal Jelly sets are both recolors of starter armor, however the old Royal Jelly Set at the very least had a crown and an awesome Joker-esque color scheme. The old Jelly Set however, makes me feel a bit better about the current Jelly Set with it's astronaut/little eskimo girl/stay-puft look.

4. Seventh and Eighth images feature the Old Skelly Set (the only part of that which is worth mentioning is the mask) and this Regal/Yellow Scale Mail... the latter can still be seen in the Avatar choices in forum preferences (last image, tenth row from the top) with an appropriate Yellow/Regal Scale Helm. And I have a fleeting suspicion that's Ian/Cherub wearing it in the screenshot. Remind me to mug him in a back alley and steal all his unique armors.

5. Ninth image features the old Angelic set, which can also be seen in BOTH video trailers. I like the current version of the Angelic line better, but even so, this old one DOES have a few merits...

6. Should have mentioned this earlier but the old version of the Royal Jelly fight (no Polyps) can also be seen there

so what gives? Why are these still there in image form? Are some of the armors/helms going to make a comeback someday, or is OOO really lazy about making sure their media contains accurate representations of what's actually in the game?

Are there MMOs which are far worse in this regard?

Am I just being really anal-retentive about this?

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 03:44

Trying

Devs dont like making

Devs dont like making webpages.
They haven't done any changes to the website since i started playing like 8 months ago.
The news is probably a simple input news into this box

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 04:14

Mejezfeld

IF I SEE THAT ACCURSED KAT HAT ONE MORE TIME

On top of that, they kept re-using a piece of art which blatantly featured the Kat Hat for some of their news articles...

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 05:55

Asukalan

There must be some important

There must be some important reason why they dont use new art, donno, something really important, becouse it just cant be that they dont care about new players, and they are just using current playerbase to milk up their wallets and start up new game leaving this one to death?

Its must be something important...

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 10:25

Mejezfeld

It could just be laziness

It could just be laziness though...

One thing I'm sure of is that I want the old Skelly mask and the Regal/Yellow Scale Mail in the game really bad now

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 10:33

Psychodestroyer

I agree

Personally, I was thinking about making a thread on this last night, but didn't have the time.

I think it's mostly a 'Not really important, meh' thing.

Cuz the forum was down, I went across the rest of the website. I noticed that the screenshots were the same as when I last saw them, including stuff like JK fights.

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 11:20

Mejezfeld

Never mind that...

...that anyone who sees this site before getting the game is probably gonna look in media for videos/screenshots to get a preview of what the game's like and if they manage to play enough they're gonna...

Oh, okay, so if they even manage to get that far, by that time they'll be hooked and will probably have forgotten the screenshots/videos.

That has been proven to not be a 100% thing though, which is why there are so many people wondering where the heck the purple cat turban with eyes is.

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 12:11

Aylnine

While it is a bit nitpicky...

While it is a bit nitpicky... I have to agree given that I was one of those who saw the GM/beta armors in the screenshots and was disappointed when I found out they don't exist in the current game. I got over it and I assume other people would too since to us the armors are mostly cosmetic -- the only one I could find with stats is the Magikat hat -- so it's not like we're missing out on some god armor. However, I do think it would be a good idea to upload some fresh screenshots (it's not like there's any lack of material...) just to be up-to-date, if not "honest".

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 13:41

Mejezfeld

Well

Most of the armors in those screenshots are actually old looks for existing armors, so they still exist...

Not sure on the weird Cobalt Helm or the Regal Scale Mail though those could just be old looks too.

And with the advent of the "Costumes", not even "doesn't have stats" matters, really... so we're just missing out on costume options.

Wed, 12/28/2011 - 13:44

Njthug

Its because of Boswick

Thu, 12/29/2011 - 14:45

#10

Mejezfeld

bump because

When I first saw the old Zombie/Skelly Helm/Mask in the game's files via Spiral-Spy I thought it was an unimplemented Halloween mask.

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So, why do we still have outdated screenshots in the "Media" section?