Maybe it's just me, but ever since SEGA came into play, spiral knights has been nothing but promos. Promos that fund more promos, and a little bit of actual content. That content, aimed to get new players into the game or to bring in even more profit *cough* expansion missions *cough*... To me it just seems like a ploy to bring in as much money as possible without actually improving the game. Before SEGA they actually produced content, Snarbolax, RT and PvP were all released in the same summer iirc. maybe one or two promos total.... until SEGA took over, what have we gotten since then? rehashed content, shadow lairs (absurdly priced) and just recently danger missions (actual fun content... but wait! there's a catch! you can only do it once a day.) and of course: promos, lots and lots of promos, the most recent of which shows blatant disregard for the community. How so you may ask? none of it is original, recolored armor, recolored halo, recolored crests, AND items from previous promos. The common understanding was that promo items, were unique, and exclusive, not to be obtained any other way than the promo itself, so what do they do? Surprise! remember these? People paid premium for those items, invested in them just to have all their value crushed. A pretty sleazy move in my opinion. I guess what I'm trying to say is: before SEGA, OOO seemed to care. Maybe you all think I'm just butthurt, or maybe you just don't care, but it's hard watching a game that had so much potential get corrupted by greed. Food for thought, bring on the hate.
Before SEGA
Sega joined forces a lot earlier on with Three Rings, but it became all official a bit after. Second, majority of the content added in this game is not stuff you need to buy into. If you compare how much this game has grown from just the first official day to now you will notice a lot of new add-ons.
I don't think your butthurt I just don't think you realize or even played the game properly. This game has not been corrupted by greed, and Three Rings have been pushing out updates left and right. You can always argue that these promo items suck, and its a waste, but they do end up selling easily well over 5k+ dollars in promos from the looks of it, so a high % of players do buy into them.
Shadow Lairs --- Not priced absurdly since you can split the cost with people in your party, and buy keys cheaper than vendor prices.
Danger Missions -- You can do them more than once just use party finder, or be in an active guild. ( I did about 5+ Loa missions a day at times....I know a few guildees who do about 8+ a day just for fun).
Current Promo --- The great thing about promos are if you don't like they you don't need to buy them. The new 20 dollar costume set is pretty neat I see a lot of players like that deal, and the halo's, crests, etc. Yes, a bit might be re-colored, but end of the day they are items players have been desiring for a long time. I know so many players who wished they can afford a halo or regular wings, and due to this promo well ta-da they can.
Three Rings never said promo items will never come back again. Like Nick posted a long-time ago: Starbucks always does promotions on Pumpkin spice coffee around halloween, but its always recurring. All promos come up for a limited time, but its never set it stone this is the last chance you have to receive this promo.
What I find really hard is finding players moan and cry over nothing and attempting to bring down a game when in fact the game is doing well. Please don't use that greed logic, and call Three Rings or Sega greedy last time I checked they are doing their jobs of making profit and allowing us to play a great game (For Free).
You don't need 2 identical threads you know.
And the promos are lowering CE prices, no problem with that.