Steve Moret Speaks on ToEE Patch 2 at RPG Codex
Posted Friday, April 30, 2004 - 23:15 CET by chevalier

Steve Moret has explained in sufficient detail why Patch 2 for the Temple of Elemental Evil is not coming and any further patches also remain in question. As Atari and Wizards of the Coast hold all rights to the content their permission is needed to release patches. It hasn't been given and so Troika is unable to act.

Well, it's not quite the copy protection. Atari has already provided me (on March 11th) a SecuROM protected exe that I can use for all the future patches I plan to make. The problem is that the content doesn't belong to me to release. It is property of Atari and WotC. And therefor they are the ones who are licensed to release it.

If Atari were to say to me, you are free to release any patches to temple you wish, we don't have the abiltiy to test them or host the files, I'd happily find people to test the patches and an ISP to host the files. But I still haven't heard anything back from them.

Read the whole thing at RPG Codex.