Probably because they wouldn't have made all that money off those of us that didn't play the first for long and didn't own any of the expansions. They promise us they fixed all the problems the first one had and we buy the second. The sad thing is it did fix the problems I had with the first game and the reason I couldn't stand playing it. Planets too small and too few people around. I have a lot of spare time working from home and tend to mess around doing PE's, landing on a planet in the first game and seeing a grand total of 3 other people and seeing how quickly I could get around the tiny areas and no, I couldn't go over there (I remember the build up). Clans being a website and not in the actual game, the grimoire being on a website and not in the actual game, it's like i'd stepped back into the 90's only games back then had managed to get shit like that in their games. The second one may have some big problems but I didn't like the first at all.