I donno about that.
I've attempted to support things that run from VPs and it has caused nothing less than a nightmare on my end, throughout which I was thinking "goddammit if only this stupid thing wasn't in the way".
...and I promptly gave up after a single patch cause goddammit fixing stuff in VPs is stupid.
I honestly have no real issue with people using VPs for large packages that could possibly get corrupted (though from my experience, making the VP tends to corrupt files in it more often than some download error). Its merely a design choice. There are benefits to each side and I feel that the benefits of leaving the package as loose files makes it easier to support and maintain than having stuff in locked packages. The bigger problem is just that people start making VPs out of every single goddamn thing they release, even if its like a single mission, two sounds a table, or a model and four textures... Which is totally ****ing stupid. Utterly.
