I know some people kinda strayed off topic, so here are my 2 cents..

I think we should always be looking to improve the game engine, but it seems to me what is really lacking is the art pipeline.....look at MED...let's either get rid of it or actually upgrade it. I do everything in blender and then fight with or use some quirky workaround, to get my models into GS...and even then I do most of that via code.....so I am not even concerned with the current state of wed.