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This game will get pirated (like any other game), it might just take a little longer. Not sure how they still believe they can stop piracy/reverse engineering.

I do not think it was worth it, given what has happened. Very sad that it happened to one of my most favorite games.

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People will have to steal the server side code or reimplement the parts of the gaming engine. I don't see this one getting cracked. EA will probably see that as a win even thought all of the paying customers can't play.

It seems all you would have to do is mimic the save and load functionality as the majority of the game logic is offline. I doubt it will take that long before we see things pop up.

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