liquidsnakehpks: calling nwnvault a pirate site nice :) good defense mate
keeveek: Of course. Even the info on the site itself says you cannot install those modules unless you use modified installers.
Beamdog sells them, because they have the license to do so.
Downloading modules from the vault and then using modified launchers to install them is piracy. Deal with it.
I would give it a slack back then, when you couldn't simply buy them legally (you could call those modules abandonware if you please, but games being abandoned it doesn't make them legal to pirate), but not today, when you can.
to sum up, it's a weak argument against Beamdog to say "Those thieves from Beamdog want me to pay money for something I can get for free, if I get a hacked authenticator and a modified dll files!!!!1"
and I suspect the files are still up on nwn vault only because Beamdog are way too nice guys to send a Cease and desist letter.
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/922578/#Comment_922578 this post sums up what I've said in some nicer words
They're shit compared to the community mods, and beamdog needs the neverwinter vault a whole lot more than they need beamdog -- it has nothing to do with being "nice". They want those mods because without them NN is just another mediocre game that's aged rather poorly.