OK, different Jason here. It seems evident that the first seawolves mod did rip-off the mod community. Nobody disputes that. What seems to be getting confused in this discussion is that the next upcoming Sea Wolves Mediteranean mod is also ripping off the mod community. I don't see how that can be proved at least until it hits the shelves and we can examine its contents ourselves (as I have stated before). Wulfmann (sorry, not Wulframm!
) says they have learned their lesson, and this next Med mod will not rip-off the mod community, and it will in fact use mods that they themselves create (the proof will be in the pudding). Since he is the only one here that has seen it, any other argument seems to me to be pure speculation.
And its good for Ubisoft to have the mod community do their thing, and let official expansion packs do their thing from Ubi's perspective. Whatever adds playability or "usability" to the product from their perspective adds more sales figures for them, no matter what anybody says; this is an absolute truth to any sales and marketting plan of any product. No need for a scientific study, just ask any marketting executive of any product or any promotions team of any company.