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To discourage piracy. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/12/super-mario-run-online...

pyro2927 on Jan 23, 2017 [–]

I refuse to buy it purely for this fact. Not because I want to pirate it, but because I do most of my mobile gaming while on a plane. And I'm not paying for in-flight WiFi just for Mario.

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