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It's much easier for them to shut down 1 server vs. 20m pirated copies that need no server.

Well just as with private servers for World of Warcraft, it's more than likely going to be several big private servers.

edit: This would also enable for LAN parties to play without anything more than a few cross-over Ethernet cables.

they had private "realm" servers for diablo 2 too. I remember playing ones that ran mods