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Originally Posted by trevius
If we were going to bother with that, we might as well jump all of the way to Underfoot and skip SoD all together. But again, I really don't know how good of an idea it is to put a lot of work into something that is a digital download only and could potentially be changed at any time. That would leave only illegal options for obtaining the proper Underfoot client, which is something I would like to avoid at all costs.
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Well, right now, the only way people are going to get an expansion past SoF is digital distribution, and I highly doubt it's going to change all of a sudden since it hasn't been updated since 2008. It's kind of a double-edged sword, because we're not going to get a box set (to our knowledge), but at the same time we'll never have anything past SoF if we don't look into alternate means of legally getting the client files.
Hell, EQ2Emulator works on steam, that's where I got this idea from. They support various versions, though, too.
The reason I think it never will change is because SOE uses the launchpad to patch the game to the live version after you download the files off of steam, and thus, unless they send a whole new client to the Steam Store for the hell of it (they haven't for ANY of their games, other than to re-release with new expansions/sets) it's probably not going to go away.