[Fyron]

Originally posted by oleg:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
You can't really compare a free download to a purchased expansion... expansions are supposed to add new hard-code features, not just changed data sets.

I disagree. What if Aaron decided to hide data files inside the .exe file like other dudes do ? Than the SAME change will be regarded as a "new hard-code feature, not just changed data sets".

It is a testimony to the MM greatness and a shame on the major games developers that incrediably radical game play change can be so easily ridiculed by you !

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Umm... there was not even a trace of any form of ridicule in my post. Not sure where you got that from... Aaron has included changes to the data sets in patches. That is what patches are for. The point of an expansion is to expand the game in ways that can only be done by the developer. Of course, when you have games that are unmoddable, changes to the data sets are hidden as just being that, and so they often get marketed as expansions, but most expansions still have some hard-code changes. And, naturally, changes to the data sets are perfectly reasonable (and expected) in expansions, as long as the entirety of the expansion is not something that could be achieved through modding alone.