"Spiral Knights without a doubt has become something we have all grown to love."-Arc
And some grown to hate it due to all the stupid boxes and updates that are meaningless. I don't have to go through everything to tell you that not everyone is happy with OOO's descision.

"Not every game can boast such an incredible fan base and an awesome development team."-Arc
Incredible Fanbase? Yes, Awesome development team? Not so much, bring us the gunner update or go home.

I have been here since late 2012, I saw the destruction of mist and CE, and I saw a lesser evil taken its palce (*cough forge *cough). I see people like Draycos, Fangel and You thinking that with your power alone you can make a change in the game, and I remembered just how futile your pathetic attempt ultimately was. No offense, but OOO is just like that, what makes you think your voice ever worthed a damn to them?

I was never here for Grinchlin assualt and march of tortodrone, I mean, seerusly? Why would I waste so many spark, time and CE for something as meaningless as trashy shields and a ring that is hardly worth the time? I still play SK for what it is, and that is that. But trying to make a name for my self in a game such as this is hardly worth the time. But with that said, SK did help me improve my drawing skill, making fan art for this game has marked a monumental landmark for my drawing technique. So kudos to you OOO for helping me improve in those aspect.

Cheers,

Midnight-Dj

“I have been here since late 2012, I saw the destruction of mist and CE, and I saw a necessary evil taken its palce (*cough forge *cough).”

Fixed.

Only when Gotham is in ashes do you have my permission to fix my quote. On a more serious note, I didn't find forge either necessary or well-thought out.

I must say, after my entire gaming experience being games like runescape or TF2 my whole life, when I was introduced to SK (wanted that TF2 hat), my reaction was one of wonder and amazement.

When I first joined, I couldn't get enough of this brilliant game. I played missions every day as efficiently as I could to save mist, and when that had run out, I would just spend time in the advanced training hall for hours having fun with strangers as we did fun stuff like how you used to be able to ride the gates in the advanced training hall. Some guy invited me to his guild and I stayed there for maybe a day before leaving, I just didn't see the point in it, but a few weeks later I was invited to join Lux E Tenebris...and that is where my SK story really begins. Lux E Tenebris was a wonderful coming together of, in my opinion, some of the best people in the game, and I don't necessarily mean skill wise, but in the character of the people. They helped me eventually reach my goal of becoming a vanguard, and over that time my sense of novelty and child-like wonder only grew. There was about a 2-3 month period where I could not access SK and I came back to find the guild had, to my dismay, died. Without a guild was no way to play the game for me, so probably the one stroke of good luck I have had in my life kicked in and I found out about Knights of Equestria, the all brony guild that was and still is really active and fun, and I have been in this guild ever since. Early on, I was hooked with SK's storyline, and I still am, and has been one driving point of my continued playing.

So, with that out of the way, has my interest in Spiral Knights diminished? Is my view of the game starting to lose color and slip into gray? Am I starting to just give up on this game like many others already have? Not in the slightest. While yes, the game isn't that novel and brilliant thing as it used to be due to the fact that this happens with everything, and yes, I have been playing significantly less than I used to, my interest in this game has not waned. I have been getting dissapointed with OOO over the last year for thier poor descisions regarding hype trains leaving the station early and thier non-stop spamming of "givememoneykthxbai" promotions, but I can understand OOO's enthusiasm and need for cash. Though I haven't been playing all that much over the last 4-6 months due to a bit of boredom, I have been keeping that light alive by using Spiral Knights for inspiration in my personal artistic endeavors, as well as the few things I release to the public(I keep most of my art and all of my music to myself because I'm not confident I'm good enough yet). By incorporating the game I love most into the talents I treasure most has only increased my enthusiasm and satisfaction with both and has made me a generally happier person as a result.

tl;dr - I had and still have a love for this game, but I'm more expressing that love for it through external means nowadays than actually playing the game.

Spiral Knights will forever hold a special place in my heart, even when one day(may it not be anytime soon) the game shuts down, that ember will continue to glow within me, its warmth and dull glow which were once an intensely fanned flame will continue to show its impact on me through the work that I do.
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wow that was sappy.

I loved to play spiral knights. The dev always seem to have some thing ahead of us, Until I becam 5star everything is boring. Then the promos happened,I eventually got bored of doing FSC and arcade. Tortodrone was very very disappointing for me, it seems to be some way OOO used to calm us down from the gunner update. Most of the updates in 2014 where events and promos. Ever since sega brought OOO spiral knights became more of a profi grab type of game.

Only been here for a month and a half.
Gonna be totally useless here and say: It's a great game, but I've missed more or less everything so I have no valuable input.

I remember the 1st time I logged in. I thought, "Blue, green and gold chapeaus for 10$ each? No gimmicks, you get CE and one of those items, period? Well there's no way I'll ever regret passing that up" This is really what I thought.

Back then there was no Lockdown and there were no Bombhead costumes to win in Blast Net. When they added them, along with Krogmo weapon recipes and coins, all bombheads were actually delivered unbound for the first day or so until they patched it. I always regretted actually getting one and binding it to me because I didn't know any better.

I vowed to quit the game if they ever offered Bombheads in featured auctions, yet here I am. Getting them all just isn't a priority anymore.

Reading this thread made me remember how GM's and Nick would show up in Haven wearing some crazy costume (like impersonating a snipe!) and everyone would come gather round from all over. I really miss that.

Your completely blind and your using your work mony to pay for "cough" "cough" VIRTUAL ITEMS and how is that fun !!!