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Quick history : GSC closed door some years back. When that happened, they release development toolkits and stuff to the public, and allows modders to distribute the game for free. That's basically it. Now GSC had been revived to work on a new Stalker game, while the company still headed by the same person as far as I know, most of the original staff has been replaced. The old staff some went to Rostok Games and make Survarium, some went to make the Metro series. How the modder want to distribute their mod is up to them. There are many other mods distributed as a complete game package, not just Anomaly. Dead Air & Lost Alpha are the other popular ones, I'm sure there are dozen more out there. In the case of Anomaly, there are way too many changes to the game, and probably wouldn't fit well with vanilla CoP game files, it make sense to distribute it as a complete custom package.
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