It has always been our policy here at The Patches Scrolls to report on any patch for a game. In the past this has been pretty easy: Check the game's website, the developer or publishers website(s) - we do that for about 5,000+ sites daily, by the way - download the patches there , add their description if available and people could grab them from us instead of hunting them themselves.

But with everything, times change the rules. Nowadays, almost every game gets distributed digitally. And there comes the tricky part: Many Developers / Publishers no longer offer  their patches outside those digital distributors, be it Steam, GOG, Origin or somebody else.  Of course there are exceptions, but there aren't many anymore. If you bought the game via a digital distributor, you get the patch there. But nowhere else.

And for legal reasons we simply cannot offer any Steam/GOG/... patches without permission.

So should we simply close shop? 

From a rational point of view: Yes, we should. The ad money hardly covers the cost of running the site and updating it. But this site is a labour of love, so we decided to stay , broaden the scope to demos, mods, general game information, screenshots and of course provide news on patches. So if you can't find that patch you were looking for, but only a changelog it means we have no legal means to obtain and offer this patch here.

So please think twice next time you bitch in comments about not getting your downloads here.

Matthias