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I agree with Ustwo and Nikil, I flat out wouldn't have played Morrowind without the mods. Which I can actually say with certainty because I got it when it originally came out without using any mods and returned it then picked it up a few years later to try it again with mods and liked it.
As far as what Nikil said about gamers letting companies like blizz charge us monthly, the point is not that Nikil and others like us feel we should get things for free. Nikil it sounds like, me for sure, and Ustwo probably as well are all experienced gamers, we understand that certain things must cost money but just because the way things are now does not make it the only viable way things could be.
Look at paradigm breaking games like guild wars. I personally don't like the gameplay but its online gameplay, without pay per month, is something a lot more people would like I think, but these games like WoW, and DDO know they can get away with charging per month and go with the classic style of managing online gameplay. I'm guessing it's a lot more profitable to go that way and they will if gamers let them. It also encourages bad design principles such as timesinks to keep your playerbase addicted and playing whereas a game like guild wars encourages the developers to make quality expansions to make you want to play rather than manuevering you into staying.
Not releasing everything, like has already been said, is bad because it inhibits player creativity. NWN did very well and the developers competed just fine with the playerbase instead of locking out certain parts of the game...its just like a monopoly...theyre bad in any form.
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