for those of you who play aqw still and use aeforum (a post with a lil more meaning this time)

I nominate Peregrine as your editor.

i think ill leave book writing up to our word gallery :P im a visual artist

This is actually not only an AQW problem, it applies to every single AE game. I've never played AQW that much after it left beta but I've stopped playing AQ for the exact same reason. Every release consists of a new generic war, some new items at the end of it (which are useless 90% of the time for high level players) and an excuse for a storyline that switches between being shallow and overly complicated.

They're giving the players the same generic crap in a new wrapper every single release instead of some actual releases that would change the gameplay or add new features to the game instead of a quest that does nothing more than pouring monsters from the random monster pool at you for 30 minutes.

It's a vicious circle. Tell the players you can't do a real release because you're working on something bigger and more innovative and they'll leave because they want their updates they've grown used to. Give them the update they've started to expect every week and you've got no time to work on something bigger and more innovative.

Sooner or later this business model AE is sporting will stop working since there are more and more endgame players who are bored and less new players who don't know yet what awaits them.

yup, dats what i say :)

Heh, pretty much. Although I've realized this a long time ago and stopped playing AE games altogether, you've articulated it far better than I could have. I support Game Developers when the games are innovative and growing. What has been going on lately (and by lately, I mean years) is far too stale.