Especially when it came to mods - since auto-updating wasn't a thing mod devs were a lot more happy to tie their mod to a specific patch of the game and just re

Especially when it came to mods - since auto-updating wasn't a thing mod devs were a lot more happy to tie their mod to a specific patch of the game and just refuse to support other versions. There's something to be said about this making modding more accessible since you weren't committing to long term support patches as the game evolved... but it also made things a royal pain.