Some of the people playing 1.00 and 1.04 actually own the game and are only playing the older versions so that they can play with other people. Removing the option to play in 1.00 or 1.04 would force those people to update to 1.08.
Also, I once reinstalled HCE and decided to put in a UI that didn't check for updates before I updated it to 1.08, just to see what the 1.00 community was like, and I must say, it is full of people who either don't speak English or those who are asses. Also, I did not spot ONE custom map in the server browser (after selecting the option to show maps I don't have), so you might as well play HPC.
Edit: Yeah, I meant 1.00 between "the" and "community", not 1.08. Thanks Polar.
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