Re: Wing Commander 6 coming soon

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From: TC
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:34

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On 26 Dec 2003 00:38:34 GMT, in alt.games.wing-commander ethesis@aol.comkosher
(Stephen R. Marsh) wrote:

>SO is interesting because they packaged the tweaked game engine with it.  But
>for the tweaking it would have made a clean expansion pack.  With the tweaking
>it would break WCP to have it act as a patch/add-on pack (at least on the first
>release) like the previous ones did, but at the same time, it was not treated
>as a serious stand-alone game the way WC4 was vis a vis WC3.

Wha?  There's no reason they couldn't have distributed the game as an expansion
pack.  The changes to the engine are fairly minor.  The major changes are a few
dlls for the effects updates, and a couple of other things like telling the game
where to look first for files and the like.  If they were aiming for an
expansion pack, they would have distributed it as one.  They wanted a
stand-alone game, I assume, to reach a larger audience so they could actually
have enough people to properly test their episodic format (also, so it would be
a better publicity move).

TC

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