Hobbes99

Oh, this is good - this is very good ... thanks for the link. I wasn't familiar with that forum, but it looks like a place I might just get acquainted with (oh for more hours in the day!). I'm naturally aware that we are some way off of determining exactly what is present & what is not (given that we don't exactly know what we'd be looking for) - but this absolutely confirms everything I had hoped. It rather looks as though a functional restoration MOD (in the absence of a patch) is merely a matter of time. Big thanks, once again for the link, Trom ...

I quite agree - but consider this. The content that hasn't been created, is unlikely to ever be made (cut-scenes & end sequences, for example). If they were to work on a true expansion pack, they would be afforded the financial freedom to create that content whilst working on truly new material. With the missing content restored, this alone could be released as a large patch for those who are unwilling/unable to pay for more. At the same time, they could be creating a new planet/location or two, and new character interaction possibilities (in the form of an expansion) for the benefit of those who want more - but the true significance of it's existance would be the potential for them to remedy what was unfinished whilst affording themselves the financial infrastructure afforded by a new product.

The question concerning whether or not we should/would pay for an expansion restoring this content is a very interesting one. On the one side, purchasing such a package would essentially mean endorsing the prospect of selling half a game (which already occurs to some degree) - which obviously, objectively is something that many people (quite rightly) have difficulty reconciling. The unfortunate flip-side to this is that a company such as Obsidian could probably not afford to devote the time & resources required to doing this product if no financial backing were forthcoming (and if no sales were to be made, that backing is far less likely to materialize). This would not only necessitate them working for free, but also assigning a lesser priority to their upcoming projects - which given the current state of the industry, I very much doubt they could do. A potential, workable (and perhaps favourable) solution to this, would be if they (or someone else) were to be comissioned to create a true expansion pack - with truly original content that has not already been created, whilst simultaneously rendering all the loose ends fully functional again. The question as to whether or not we should buy the expansion pack would be made all the more easy for the simple fact that we were actually investing in new work - not just the remedying of unfinished work. After all, I think that deep-down, most people here would be more than willing to pay the extra money to see this missing content as long as they weren't indirectly supporting shoddy producion methods.

I'd heard rumours that the droid planet essentially remained intact on the X-Box version (but did not exist on the PC). Now, my question is this; Given that the X-Box is basically a PC, with a modified operating system - surely the planet content can be ripped from the X-Box version of the game with the intended purpose of creating a MOD for PC (not pretending to ignore all the work that this would involve). Naturally, some of the content might not be present (textures of varying resolution, for example), and if as Obsidian have said, content from this planet was used elsewhere in the game - then it would be reasonable to assume that a few sellers & NPC's might exist twice. Not that this should matter too much ... perhaps someone (Darth Tratious?) could let us know exactly how functional & complete the droid planet on X-Box is ..? Maybe it would be worth dropping a line to Caustic (of CXBX, X-Box emulator fame) to see how feasible the ripping of this content might be. Anyway - these are just thoughts that I had intended to suggest some time ago, but have only gotten around to since registering for the petition.