I still play to amass the largest collection of UV'd spurs.

Still not fully 5* after a whole year, so yeah, still have stuff to do.

I play to get the stuff I want; Crest of Almire, Crown of the Fallen, and the world-shattering Sudaruska...

I also want to give the Spiralmon a chance, at least.

I am really into LD and that's the only thing that makes me want to keep playing.

It doesn't take much to keep you in this game, I guess.

first I want to get the vanguard rank. then I want a snarby suit. then a Sudaruska. then every single thing in game. then, I'll LD until I ged bored and quit.

Answer to virtual life,
Which is pure stupidity.

I still not fully 5*, even after playing for almost 2 years.

I also love this community. One of a kind

I want ALL the gear! _o/

One word: Community :P (and a ton of other reasons which I'm not bothered to put down XD)

Do you really want to start this conversation?

At first I started playing SK because of the fact that someone on Kongregate (with whom I am no longer in contact due to a really awkwardly mistimed request to sext online) suggested that we both try the game and make a 'Let's Play' video, something that was The Cool Thing to do at the time. As a result, I ended up joining just after the first Halloween event, on November the 1st of 2011. I stuck with it mainly because it was free and I was at university and bored. (In retrospect, it was not a great combination for my exams.) After that, I mainly stayed around for the community, and the fact that this was a game where there was a great deal to be explored. With WoW, the game could get a bit tiresome after a while - sure, there were skill combos and rare items to be acquired, but it didn't change the fact that, in that massive world, it didn't change all that often, and what you did with your character didn't determine the way you swung your sword at enemies, or whether you missed with a bullet or not. Spiral Knights had a relatively dynamic world, where there are a whole bunch of levels that are randomly generated each time. Your own actions and skills determined whether you took damage or not, not some RNG that tossed a hypothetical die to say whether you were hit or missed. There were new events. I felt as if I was exploring something fresh and innovative, and I wanted to see everything.
Since then, lag got bad. People got jaded about the lack of response over certain events, that people had been taking advantage of advance knowledge and the fact that the staff did not seem to be handling matters in the same way that they once did. CE prices went up, again; at one time it was so bad that someone got banned over market manipulation, and yet the damage was still done. Players had lost faith because they felt they were not being listened to. New players came along, some of whom were rather less mature than the older player who had joined previously.
I stuck with it in the vague sort of hope that things might change in the future, and out of curiosity. The game has a lot of potential in its capability for variety, and the concept itself is something of a niche. It just isn't being fully realised at the moment, which is something of a shame.