Alternative: Mail all your spare cash and ce to Tantarian.

I love the idea. Playing this game without putting some money toward it definitely isn't as viable as it used to be. Doing this would make it clear to new players.

Really, though, OOO has done a good job. They've deserved every dollar I've given them. They were also kind enough to make entry into the game free so that I'd have an opportunity to try it before I committed financially. With their set up I could pay slowly until I got to a point in which I could be self-sufficient and play for free from then on.

Spiral Knights isn't charity. OOO is running a business. They made a product. To expect it to be completely free is something of an entitled mentality that, I do agree, new players shouldn't adopt.

Don't up the prices like that, you'll just be hurting the rest of us players who still enjoy playing the game.

Wow, kicking down everything in the store on your way out the door - classy.

Better warn anyone who gets into a relationship with this person to keep on their toes - cause if this is anything to go by, that person has some slashed tires and burnt lawns to look forward to if the relationship goes south.

Please ignore OP and send your stuff to PWNIES!

It's a just a stupid game, if you're going to throw any form of protest, do it something that actually matters like the irl economy, or war or something that actually has an effect in our lives.

@lost4now: Don't try to reverse the argument with that minotaur-sized load of poop.

This reminds me of the old Three Rings game called "Bang! Howdy!"
Over a course of several months they slowly converted the game to a pay-only-or-don't-play with the following steps.

1) Anyone who wanted to get gold from other players (Gold was the CE equivalent.) would have to buy a license which cost one gold.
2) Anyone who wanted to get one gold would have to buy it with real currency.
3) A license to buy certain items was released and given to everyone who had a gold license. (I never got mine and Three Rings wouldn't give me one a week later.)
4) Everyone who had gold and a license but an unpaid account could not use the undownloaded version to login, and could only login once a download, before having to redownload.
5) This caused Three Rings to delete all 'inactive' accounts.
6) They ignored all complaints to not being able to login, and refused to restore deleted accounts.
7) A year later, we can login, but we cannot do anything, furthermore population of the game was reduced to 20-50 online at any given time when it was used to be closer to 300-500.
8) Finally, you see that their tactics have changed to appear reasonable while quickly getting boring.
(I once joined a floor with an afk disconnected host and lost ten energy because he wasn't there to stand on the pad, shouldn't there be a minute leave period to retain energy?)
9) You're probably all doomed, I posted this here, Three Rings remembers now, don't they? They don't need pansy tactics to make you quit, do they? It's called. "Time to play hardball."

Im down for this, even if only a few hours, it will make a strong statement if we can ban togeather. its not going to become a perminate price for CE, but i will show OOO that players want somthing done. I've invested more then 10 trades above 9k. Just for the fun of it, for a day lets see how well they handle this situation.

lotro is a fully functional, smooth running MMO that attempted to compete w/wow and lost, so changed to ftp. Unlike sk, there are no time limits, there are limitations and a store to buy stuff in, but they aren't required if you want to play 3-4 hours a day. Economy is stable, lots of players.

My friend has a lvl 41 toon there, he's never paid a dime. Very finely tuned, tons of content.. I could play for months on lotro for free for hours a day if I had the time, and I wouldn't have to be limited to running the jelly king 5 times a day. Devs are highly involved as well.

3r really lost me with the last patch (a blatant cash grab) on an already greedy microtransaction system, one day I woke up and realized that there are much better alternatives, games where things are streamlined and finely tuned, tons of content, deeper gameplay, and most importantly no limits on game time.

Gonna take my credit card and my valuable time elsewhere.

Comparing the two is apples to oranges really, everything from music, graphics, controls, gear, UI, community, economy, NPC interaction, dev interaction, end game, combat system transparency, (real numbers vs vague bars) I could go on and on.. all those things lotro crushes SK.

The only place where SK outshines lotro is in limiting your playtime.

It's like having a choice between a 2003 kia or a 2012 porsche, the kia you can drive for a total of three hours a day, then you have to pay to drive it until the next day. The porsche you can drive 24/7 for no cost if you want. You gonna take the kia?

:p

It's like having a choice between a 2003 kia or a 2012 porsche, the kia you can drive for a total of three hours a day, then you have to pay to drive it until the next day. The porsche you can drive 24/7 for no cost if you want. You gonna take the kia?
That's a false analogy if I ever heard one.

Anyway, it doesn't matter what game you play, whether F2P or not; players like us will always pay to be able to play more. Personally I'm going to stick around and see what TRD will do in the next few months before completely abandoning a perfectly good game.