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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/dirtydigs74 on 2025-11-02 00:31:06+00:00.

Well it’s happening again. Bought a game years ago on Epic - Snowrunner. Last week the AWS outage stopped me from playing my save because the game/store didn’t think I had the DLC’s I bought. Then I couldn’t log in and play it at all. Today, another Epic fail with login issues.

It’s a singleplayer (with a multiplayer co-op option) game. There’s no reason at all for requiring an online connection unless you want the multiplayer function. But now I have to wait until they fix their server issues. And the next time something goes wrong with something else on the internet, I’ll have the same problem. Or if my internet connection goes down.

I haven’t pirated a game in decades, since I was young and broke. Now I’m thinking about getting back in the groove. Good work Epic store for actually encouraging pirating. It’s going to be hard to resist getting the DLC I don’t already own, given the amount of effort I’m about to go through just to play the game I paid for.