Quote Originally Posted by tai4ji2x
how is "keep things hardcoded to sell the expansion" NOT an example of protecting their IP?
Well if they were afraid of getting hijacked by a hacker they would keep them hardcoded forever...Now why they open them in the expansion? Maybe because they feel competing with the modders? But on the other hand they have this nice ONE real patch policy to keep Blizzard and other more customer friendly companies happy...

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