I have similar thoughts.

I think Age of Sorcery could have been one of the best updates ever for CE had they simply enabled some of the combat sorcery that they originally brainstormed (per their own vid)… It brought back a lot of players who I had previously played with. They were excited by the promise of sorcery but not impressed with what they got (and quickly quit again – about 6 folks that I know)… That aside I agree it had some interesting/fun changes.

Age of War… It sounded so awesome and fitting for a Conan setting when first announced but the initial chapter was very weak - should never have been released with the lack of content that it had. I’ll be honest I haven’t tried the current chapter yet (just been resetting my base). I initially had visions of my actual base having to fight off epic sieges but seems like the new purge is very temperamental to the point that they would have difficulty pathing to a normal PVP base and instead we have to go find nice level ground and create a new/simple structure just for it to work. Haven’t had the energy yet to go out and build such a “siege base”. Will eventually try it out and who knows maybe I’ll think it is awesome.

Hoping for the best for the next updates.