Then we would not have access to all the bug fixxes, extra madles / items / skills / or the Packet collector information.

And I think the Devs feel the point is to stay as close to live as possible, and since this is there hobbie they decided to do it this way.

Not trying to sound like a jerk this question has just been asked at least 20 times since I have been here and thats what they stated as there reasons.