that's my point it doesn't protect the game. A quick search pulls up plenty of places I can find cracks to play eco offline. All this does is force people who want to play without a connection to do so illegitimately force people who don't want to do that to not buy your game at all and do nothing to stop people from pirating the game. This was all something the industry learned at the start of the last decade. And why most now just require an occasional connection to verify the copies.