I've been saying all along the pirates are mad as heck, because they won't have their freebie BOB COD handed to them.
They have been driving moderators crazy with all their rampaging posts on this forums.
I'm glad others are beginning to see it.
Updates will go through steam so maintaining BOB COD will be difficult for them over the long run. Unless they are just set on getting it for free they would do better just to buy it. The workarounds will drive them nuts with all the patches we having coming over the next couple months.