You're just unlucky.

Most people I imagine don't have the attention span or the fore-sight to plan for a long-term Role-playing commitment. And even if they do they may not be among company with the same sort of planning. When dealing with people, something will fall apart one way or another and there's no promised method to create a long-living RP.

I've tried to replicate the longevity success of Precipice of War several times. But each time I try it falls apart because of commitment failures on some end. Only PoW has lasted long, and that may be because those who are the core commanding members have been a part of it for years. We've all grown up around it and watched each other grow up because of it. And we have such long-term plans and have such deep roots with the RP I don't imagine it'll die.

Inevitably - we sometimes half joke - it'll evolve into an HBO mini-series. Once we clean it up.