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How players keep abandoned online games alive

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When profit-driven corporations inevitably pull the plug on aging multiplayer titles, incredibly stubborn communities simply reverse-engineer the required software themselves. Refusing to let their childhood passions die, they fund and maintain complex rogue networks just to keep experiencing a digital world that the original creators wholly abandoned.

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