oh boy here we go

sithstorm of maladjusted kids imminent

I don't see the problem. If this provides a new influx of players to keep pouring $$ into the game, which in turn will allow the staff to continue to operate and develop new content, what's the harm in OOO putting this game on every game site in existence??

@Oatmonster I see how not continuing to bring in new players will ruin the game in a much more definite and swift way than expanding to new gaming websites, regardless of if said gaming website may be rumored to cater to younger players. Newgrounds is obviously frequented by many normal gamers, as I've already heard from many current SK players that they noticed the advertisement on Newgrounds.

It is against the ToS to be under the age of 13, so let those kids get banned permanently if they do decide to break the ToS.

EDIT: I would like to add that in a perfect world I would prefer to only see a huge community of mature gamers playing Spiral Knights, but unfortunately that is not the world we live in...

Another question for Oatmonster or anyone else who is raging about this: How would you recommend Three Rings expand the playerbase? Where are your suggestions for how they could be doing things better? I am genuinely interested

I agree 100% with the above statement...and I do have an issue with the quality of new players. Unfortunately, I see it as a necessary evil :(

Then hit up the Suggestions forum and make a list of gaming websites that you feel have an appropriate and preferable community that you'd like to see within SK, and suggest to OOO that they put SK on those sites as well. I don't think I've ever seen anyone suggest which sites they'd like to see SK advertisements on, yet we have complaints when they make the decision themselves.

http://www.memestache.com/Brace+Yourselves//277928

"Wait, when did NG stop exclusively hosting Flash works?"

Haven't they moved on to other things for a long time now? (Or did you specifically mean games?)
I remember stumbling into their music section some years ago. Some good stuff there. Though, I can't say I knew they host big games like SK.

Great, Spiral knights added their game to another site.

I wonder if people form there get real Username and password to access forums, wikipedia, support portal or just like kongregate players (and maybe other too) they dont have any access to those above + F2P players cant buy OCH because OOO is supposed to "work on it" and this is bull**** since we already know that players on asian servers can buy OCH with CE so both p2p players can have it and f2p players.

spiral knights: awesome game!

spiral knights on steam: NICE!

spiral knights on newsground: right.......

Well OOO is trying to get more players into playing sk, not a big deal.

"Well OOO is trying to get more players into playing sk, not a big deal." And they do it in too obvious way. They still didnt solved VERY OLD issues with Spiral Knights being hosted outside official site (lack of access to support portal, forum, wikipedia), yet they start up SK on other sites.

Its like they completly dont care about quality of services they provide, they just want to lure in players and trap them in those unfunctional third party site clients.

Know where else you can find pornographic content?

Google.

*Cough* I'm a new player who just came from Newgrounds and I understand your concerns but... jeez. :/

I did not expect this kind of prejudice reaction from some of your community. Here's some random rant. About random stuff.

Yeah, we have unmature children on the site who can be easily be told apart from the reviews they leave and the content they try to publish. We children (14 at the moment) are everywhere on the Internet these days. Nothing new. And the content they try to publish, well... this is why we have the "Judgement" section of Newgrounds. To effectively "Blam" content not up to par with the standards of what we would like to see. Sometimes the "Blam" part doesn't happen but... at least we try to keep some poor quality fan-generated content out. To be honest all of the stuff on Newgrounds is either fan-generated or paid for by some company in the hopes of attracting people (like this great game called "Spiral Knights".)

Yeah, we have the "bad side" of Newgrounds but so does everything else in the world. "The good comes with the good" or some phrase like that. I won't get into that "M" stuff but Newgrounds is literally ran by the people who use it. Without the fans NG is nothing. So we have to accept some stuff. We don't like it but... don't act like that's all of NG. Hey, we got some people who generate the stuff that is in good quality and of good morals.

Most of the content in NG is honestly good. Ranging from flash games to movies to audio it's a place for people to get their stuff to get publicized, published, and to get a start on the Internet and hopefully from there, the real world. Nothing is wrong with that. Hey, even that "M" stuff starts somewhere. Though, that's of bad morals.

Look on the bright side. More money = More time this game gets to stick around. And you may get some more good people that you want for your guilds (I have a sort of idea of what they are), etc. Though whether the good outweighs the bad... meh.

And rant done. My freakin fingers hurt.

"I did not expect this kind of prejudice reaction from some of your community."

Yeah, sorry about that. Personally, it's because I'm thinking about the hordes of [people we don't want, I'm tired of the same adjectives] that SK will be opening up to as a result. 'Course, I know NG isn't all bad people, but I suppose my worry overtook consideration for the people it didn't apply to.

Sorry :/

Kenmoor, are you playing from newgrounds account?

If so, have you gained access to forums/ wikipedia/ support portal with your newgrounds-spiral knights account or you had to create separate forum/support portal/wikipedia account?

ignore asukalan, all that person does is post hateful and petty messages about OOO in every thread. In their entire year plus here, they haven't made a single post that isn't cry-babying about OOO. 100% negative, not a single constructive, insightful post worth taking the time to read.

OOO, as you'll come to realize if you stick with SK, definitely is worthy of animosity a lot of times, given how they conduct themselves and treat the player-base. At other times they are to be commended. Come in with your eyes open to this fact. Lots of great stuff going on in Spiral Knights, just don't expect top-notch customer service to be one of them. --hopefully you won't have any problems, and won't have to try and use the "support" portal.

But either way, drawbacks aside, Spiral Knights is an addicting and an amazing game. The negatives don't outweigh the positives, at least not until you are dead bored of the game (they don't produce new PLAYABLE content in a timely enough manner, at least not once you've played 100s of hours of what they already do have). And even then, it still has high enough replay value to come back and dabble on the regular, or is worth checking in from time to time to see when new playable content IS going to be released.

His rages are funny, and interesting.

He's also cool ingame.

Those aren't really two servers, the game is hosted on Amazon EC2. If you want to know what that means, read this wiki page.

re:UVs post:
-just don't expect top-notch customer service to be one of them.
I'd just like to clarify/specify on this point, if I may. Some games have awful customer service on all fronts, and leave you generally unimpressed/annoyed by the staff. SK doesn't have that issue on quite as wide a scale. Smaller and/or more personal issues and most common ticket requests get solved to a more than satisfactory degree so that people are generally happy with the service. Every time I've had to send in a ticket about something that went wrong in game, or request a GMs assistance, I've got what I needed without hassle and often in a reasonable timeframe.
What UV is meaning (correct me if I'm wrong, btw) is that for larger debates and issues in the game (such as weapon/armour changes or content releases and/or things that affect the game/community as a whole) we tend to get very mixed messages from the staff and are often left in the cold waiting for answers or feeling somewhat betrayed by the false impressions we may have been given.
I feel there is a distinction between the two.

re:Psycho's post:
-In any case, Asuka's been a rager here ever since. Hard to explain, but it's kinda funny, seeing him come over somewhere to rage. Ask almost anyone.
You get different kinds and degrees of ragers. Some of them, like Asu, just pop up randomly and rage about OOO ruining their life and corrupting the world and that they feel their soul decaying, before returning to log another 30 hours in SK. They're funny, and they feel right as part of teh community (we need both sides of opinion for form a full community) which is heavily aided by the fact that they just rage at the world and invisible entities, without ever really offending any one forummer.

Then you get ragers that make a point to troll and flame, with their QQing directed more at forummers and in a far less humorous way; much more aggravating and offensive. They're the kind of ragers that people get annoyed by and are happy to see gone. Asu is the former kind, that people expect to see in threads like this and have a giggle with.

/class dismissed~