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[Husar]

Downloading a patch exe from a developer and double-clicking it to install the patch is pretty easy.

Have you ever seen topics like "do I install 1.12 before 1.13 and then can I install 1.6 right away or do I need 1.5 first?" or maybe even "help, I tried to install 1.8 before 1.7 and now I can't start the game anymore!!!"?

Well, now you say patches that include all previous versions are the best option, so you get topics like "Why are they not respecting us 56k users?" "Can't they offer it in like 500000 seperate zip files?".

So you say releasing it both ways is the solution so you get topics like "I want to download patch 1.5, do I need to download just patch 1.5.exe or do I also need 1.5_0.zip, 1.5_1.zip, 1.5_2.zip.....?"

And let's not forget "my virus scanner says patch 1.5_234.rar contains a virus, can anyone confirm this? Why are CA trying to infect us?!?!?!".

So i guess it just sounds easy but in practice it might cause even more problems than Steam's automatic process, though that isn't perfect either.