If we froze on a single copy of the client for any significant length of time, only those who happened to have that copy and hadn't patched to a newer version could play. Newcomers are likely to already either be patched to the latest version, or be patched to a version that's too old. Occasionally an existing player may lose the files from his hard drive. In either case, for legal reasons, EQEmu cannot assist with getting those files back. Over time, our playerbase thins out to nothing.
Each expansion adds new features too, which require a newly patched client to take advantage of. Imagine if we froze the client to today's version. Dragons of Norrath is coming out in two weeks... how long will it be before people here are screaming for all the good stuff from DoN to be implemented, only to be told it ain't happening because we're stuck on a pre-expansion client.
So you wanna play eqemu and you wanna play eqlive? Nobody is forcing you to keep just one EQ folder. Copy your eqemu folder and have two folders.
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