Aside from my guild, I just remain hopeful that some day; story-related content aside from the Shadow Lairs will be released, as much as it seems like it's been forgotten about.

It's not a question if whether I want to quit. My guild needs me. They've been through too much to have someone else leave them.

I'm sensing a trend ...

NOTHING BINDS ME TO THIS GAME. THE GAME BINDS ITSELF UPON ME.

Really, it's just gaining money so I can buy more CE so I can craft and grow more weapons and armor. Increase my variety.

Though I still sometimes leave for a long time, but come back occasionally.

I hope they continue the storyline soon!

Main thing is my guild. I don't want to let the people in my guild down if I suddenly disappeared.

To keep myself from just idling in Haven, watching snipes waddle around, I keep striving to get more and more equipment. Throughout the game, I have followed my ADHD driven gut, grabbing things that were shiny, or at least telling myself to make said shiny things. Yes, it occasionally backfires. However, this impulsive drive has given me such a large variety of gear for almost every situation (Still working on Danger missions...). If it wasn't for me saying "Hrm... that looks cool... I'm going to get one," I'd never would have picked up my Shiver (No pun intended), my Voltaic Tempest, my Chaos Set, my Shadowsun Set, my Mercurial Set, my Furious Flamberge, my Combuster, my Sentenza, my Electron Vortex, my Triglav, my Valiance, and more. Admittedly some of the equipment above almost never sees the light of day. However things like Shadowsun, Chaos, Sentenza, and Combuster have become integral parts of my arsenal.

In short, I get more gear and keep getting more gear.

Funny thing is I just announced my retirement about a week ago

What did keep me in this game was the community and the merching; however ever since the market took a huge tank up the [rear end orifice] I finally decided to step down into retirement. Given my obvious love for dragons (my costume cough cough) I'll probably return to give these Battle Sprites a spin; if that doesn't give me something worth playing for, however, I'll ease back into my ROTMG playing. I mean, the community at EoS is lovely, but sadly that alone isn't enough to simply keep me playing a game. Not to mention some issues with merching that totally defy logic, but that's for a different point.

Laffiness from everyone. Friends and guild, people to talk to, /lonely.

I love my friends, I like helping new promising players.

Even though I "quit" and sold all of my epic gear (miss you already Darkfang), I like many others came back. The one thing that keeps myself attached to this game (besides being a great game and having a great community), is simply the ability to teach and help others grow to love and excel in this game.

I think for me it's probably the warm and welcoming community both ingame and the forums. my guild's pretty nice too though

1.(Guilds) I love spending time with my guild mates. Be it a guild run, GvG, or just hanging in the guildhall bedroom swapping interesting stories. I've been in my current guild for about a year and a half, and in that time I've made some great friends. It's amazing how attached you can become to people that you've met over the internet :)

2.(Video Material) After grinding my way to full 5* I decided that it would be fun to make videos about Sk. Originally I posted some godawful gameplay which got about 15 views in a month. Since that didn't seem to be working I decided to put together the gear demonstration videos and get to know some of my guild mates better by doing lets plays with them. People seemed to enjoy those videos and I've continued uploading them for some time now. As long as I have time and new 5* gear to obtain I'll continue pumping the videos out.

3.(The Community) Spiral Knight's community is very kind and fun to hang around most of the time. I've met some of my best friends through random haven conversations, and I've only had to ignore 1 player since I started the game.

It's the people of course. Otherwise there are plentiful of single player titles you can play.

That's why Guild management is very important and critical to the success of SK. Game mechanics, you can tweak. Economy, you can repair (to a certain extend). But people survive beyond the game. Poorly implemented guild management tools make people harder to bond and citing from the SK Community Standard, make the game play "dirty".

e.g. non-instantized Mist Well and its dispersion mechanism is not robust. It introduces free rider problem (even if the wells are placed behind doors) and the downside risk is not bounded (any free rider can drain all the mist).

It's grat game... but in perspective of 'Spiral Only' that game don't makes big sense for vanguards... we can do only one thing; farm to make items. Farm to farm better?
You can have all items, all accesories, costumes, bilions k of prestige, but in real fact: Why you need that?

In my situation im playing for two... maybe third reasons;

- CE-Games Steam trade
- I'm Guild Master
~I still wait for the good updates, what will add sense for that game...

Hope that my constant raving will bring back the old RSS.

Although I (Acid-Snow) am not fully a veteran, I have been around awhile. What brought me back was mental numbness and exhaustion from other things in life (and sufficient free time, of course). Playing Minesweeper is more painful and apparently less rewarding than playing SK.

I don't play as much as I used to but if I'm not busy with school/music/sports then I'll log on for a bit.
I usually play a lot when new content is released and then eventually drift back to other things in life.
With school starting back up though, I'll hardly be on at all. I will check out these Battle Sprites though.

I've met a lot of great people too. It says a lot about them if they've been able to keep me around these
past two years:)

~Syvaa

Eating cupcakes

Also this forum community has the best humor I seen in years :P

I'm a big MMO Vet, I've tried many free MMOs (even participated in beta openings) with my boyfriend and all of them all end up the same in the end, "free to play...pay to win" . By that I mean that you can only be the best (or even to advance further in the game) by paying real money to get the best items and uber enchantments off the cash shops. With this game, you're only paying for fancy cosmetics (or the elevator pass which I think is great if you plan to play A LOT) , I hope it stays that way. Another bonus, even if you don't have real money you can always use crowns to get crystal energy. Also the community is pretty fun to be around too. I guess that's why I stick around here (also everything here is so cute and fun *sobs ; ;)

Maybe it's because I've been gone for a few months but honestly I can never run out of things to do. Like crafting an armor set for EVERY situation and being rich enough so I can get myself some sweet UVs and coveted accessories.

I think the thing that keeps me here is my guild. I would normally say Lockdown or the community, but the community within it is so trash, both are quickly falling off my list. No one really shows much respect or even just a simple good game, or even just not complaining every time they die. /sigh

My guild, mostly, because a lot of my good friends have quit. I'm an officer so I have a fair amount of responsibility that comes with the position in a fairly large guild like Knights of Equestria

Want to hear what keeps me here?

A group of caring individuals whose friendship has grown far beyond this game.

That's it. Without that, this game has nothing. My time here practically hangs by a thread.

P.S. Xair, you are quitting too? Dang it girl! Feels like I am losing everyone... This strand is unraveling faster than I had surmised.

Like most people have said... My friends and my guild! They are a fun group and I love to spend time with them. There's no way I would keep playing this game either on my own or completely relying on random parties.

<3 You guys.