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@vokainen099 @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato >and it was never about piracy or cracked servers

Oh it was. That's why Battlefield private servers for later games are unhostable at home, or why Black Ops 1 was the same way. Even worse; you can no longer rent a BO1 PC server because the provider pulled the plug so you have to use some weird third party client to play online and the player count is low because they require steam verification because of Activision shutting another one down (XLabs).

It's still about control and walled gardens; because you're paying them directly or GameServers or someone to host it.