I don't see why you'd choose this particular event to respond to with displeasure.
*feeling like Luke in front of the Emperor*
*Don't letting hate fill himself!*
*cooling off*
Ok, I'll reply somewhat more constructively. After all, if I am still on these boards, it's proof that I'm still hoping for the game.
I don't see why you'd choose this particular event to respond to with displeasure.
Why, you ask? Because the majority of those spells should have already been included in the game before August 24, THAT is why!
They could launch some interesting contest: they could ask people ideas about the magic system as a whole, or who have the best ideas about the use of shards, their properties, or how books of magic schools should be dispatched, what each should encompass, the ways to use magic power far away(sphere of influence? Magic tower? Distance?...), how magic artifacts should be created and with which resources (crystals, mana, use of shards...). Something ORIGINAL! Tapping the imagination of our best forumers to innovate in this game (if they can't do it themselves).
But all they could come with is "Give me a spell!".
Give me a break, yeah! Everybody having played MoM, the AoWs, the Doms and many other games could come with tens of cool spells in ten seconds.
Just a marketing stunt... That's why. 