Hmmm. I can't see this as anything other than an anti-piracy measure - I mean scheduling an update in the future and hard-coding that into the game's .dll... Then again, it IS supposed to be only startable via Steam, I guess...
Oh well, nicely done and muchos grazias, friend!
...just for fun and giggles though, I'm gonna turn my system clock back to the 7th to see what happens with the original .dll. Actually, this idea should've come to me naturally, lol.
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EDIT: and it's indeed working with the original that way lol... Time-machined my OS back to the 7th, and...
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