As in old UI version? Old icons? Old SK pre-BS? Specifics and details please.

Well i just want to know (or if anyone know) what MMO have a version swichter? i dont know any MMO with that, i Know MMO that have servers with differents version of the game so players that dont like changes can play there (for example i remember when Dofus 2.0 come out most of the spanish players were complaining of the new version and the spanish community got Dofus 1.29 version) but then again we are talking about game companies that can set up many servers as their player base grown, OOO cant do that. also those games have a lot of changes (mostly visuals like model changes, sprite changes etc). Spiral Knights Barely have changes in those terms.

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Now lets see what we can avoid like if we have "a version swichter"

-Battle sprites: if someone doesnt like batte sprite update: they just can avoid to choose their sprite and if they have one they just can unequip them like if they never have sprite. and if they see them in haven well is easy to ignore.

-Mission System (expansion included): well this one is hard to avoid but just reach vanguard and keep playing arcade like if there never was mission system, like Spiral Knights used to be on 2011

-Shadow Lairs: just never buy a key and never go to the north of Depth 23 and would be like shadow lair never would be implemented.

- Dash and Bash: Just dont use them and would be like we never would have them

Now lets see things we cant avoid:

-New UI: we cant avoid this one, and most of the players would like the old UI back, my only and main annoyance with the New UI is that useless big knight portrait, but after a long time with the new UI someone get used to it.

-Free elevators, and orb and forge stuff: we cant ignore these.

-Monsters Nerfs: yeah this one is what make the game boring today, but i hope OOO can really give us the monsters we deserve...someday

-Arcade Mineral Deposits removed: well we cant dump there our minerals anymore because mineral deposits were removed :C

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So your idea isnt viable since well:

1) spiral player base is small compared with most of MMo around the net, thats the reason why we dont have news servers since we arent enough to reach another server.

2) related to the first point, since we are a small player base, then that mean the players that dont like these changes are even more smaller. i dont like the new UI but i get used to it. riche and steve dont like battle sprites but they dont use it and avoid to equip them, and so on. those players are just just a small group that just setting a whole server for them is useless and a waste of money. not like dofus where it have tons of players that dont liked the new version of the game.

3) related to the second point, you cant have a version swichter so easily, first because we need a server with such version so you can swicht the "version" and join on that server. (or like dofus: have the game client with such version) setting a lot of servers with those versions (well not a lot probably with versions that have the major changes) isnt viable, you going to pay the servers? because set up those servers need money, and players a this point in spiral only buy Ce when theres a new promo. because most of the stuff that need energy now are gone (Orbs of Alchemy, Free elevators) so are you going to pay the servers? also would you get more players for the game so the player base can be more bigger? because without that your idea isnt viable.

4) we cant have a version swichtes "off line version" , why well just look threads with the "spiral knight off line mode" and you will find why, because "hax" exploitable reasons.

5) Honestly the game dont have major changes besides: Dash and Bash, Battle Sprites, Mission System (expansion included), Shadow lair, Events. so still your idea isnt viable, and most of these changes expanded the game, so why anyone would like to swicht to a previous version just because didnt liked 1 thing? i mean if i swicht to a version of the 2011, that mean i would get the old dark haverst festival, where haven was always at day and only huting the pumpking king to have the same rewards (the mask) and only that. while the dark harvest festival 2012 got Haven at Night, Hallow Prize Boxes. so, why anyone would change back to something that the game lacked? unlike dofus 2.0 where most of the things changed, added new equipment, changed lot of spells, changed the appeareance of the monsters, players and equipment. well was a total rework of the game, so thats why they (and some MMo) have version swichtes. because the changes are major but major for the game. Spiral Knights only keep adding and improving the game expanding it.

so honestly, i dont see how your idea is viable since most of those changes can be easily ignored. not like other MMo where the game have major changes, sure the only thing we would like is the beta monsters, but OOO will keep adding them in a future because at least if they run out of ideas they can add materials they removed frm the game. also because some of the beta stuff need improvements since well you know thats why is called "Beta".