I just don't like the fact that three off-switches stand between your ability to play the game and the end of the game. In less than a second, nobody would be able to play SH5 without some really heroic hacks. Chances are those hacks would result in prosecution, even if they only allowed those who bought the game to play it.
Basically, private servers would have to be run and players' computers would have to have their HOSTS files altered to redirect website calls to those servers. And that would only work if the game works in certain standard ways. If it doesn't, even that may not be possible.
So there's your main problem. Mods could make SH5 the best subsim in the world and the next day Ubi can just shut it down, rendering all that work worthless.
I hope someone with the foresight to see the problem and the wisdom not to release or divulge the solution until it's needed is working on the situation.
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