for those that played Jtrickster will noticed that you don't go directly on the game at first. They send you to the website and you click Game start. They will prompt you if you logged it and if not logged in and then its going to go through and load up Splash.exe for you and patch up if any available and then load up the game. This will be the only way to get on the game. As for just patching you can easy do it by going through the files, but that is as far as you going to go without going through the website. I don't know why they choose to this method and how effect it is but I'll live with it.