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Dark Age of Camelot Releases Old Expansion as Patch
Popular MMOG Dark Age of Camelot has had several expansions since its launch, and recently the Shrouded Isles expansion was released to the playerbase as a patch to the game. This essentially ensures that anyone who purchases even the base game is upgraded to the better graphics engine of the Shrouded Isles expansion. The patch is downloadable from FileFront and ValueCommerce. Another notch in the trend of Massive games trying to emphasize free content additions as a selling point.
Next content update "Issue 3: council of war" for City of Heroes is coming out later this month for free, and its advancing the story line.
However things such as City of villains will be a optional expansion pack, you'll have to pay to have it added to your Coh account. If the devs have their way CoV will also be available as a seprate game for those who dont want to get CoH. But those with CoH just buy the pack and have it added on.
Also included in this update are areas where PvP arenas are being built.
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They don't get access to the zone as far as I heard (but I stopped playing my 50 Valewalker when Trials of Atlantis came out and haven't followed Mythic much after that), only the updated graphics engine. They use NDL's (Numeric Designs) rendering engine (same one used for Elder Scroll Morrowind.) Their "expansions" tend to fall along NDL's updates to their engine. Hmmm....
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Mythic only released the engine for free, you still have to pay for the Shrouded Isles content. The only reason the SI engine is being offred as a free download is because the DAoC classic engine will no longer be supported once Catacombs is released tuesday. Not as generous as it first sounded eh?