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Dark Age of Camelot Releases Old Expansion as Patch

Posted by Zonk on from the kindness-and-generosity-of-the-nobility dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Nice spin by kenp2002 · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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  2. The story got it all wrong... by Ralin_JM · · Score: 2, Informative

    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?

    1. Re:The story got it all wrong... by DarkFencer · · Score: 3, Informative

      That was the original plan, but they have since said that ALL of SI would be free, not just the engine.

      Guess they figured it is too much trouble to bother seperating it.