No?

I mean, how else are you meant to play the game actually?

I guess you could be like opening ports just to particular IPs. And you need a game that isn’t Swiss cheese that gets immediately hacked.

But like hackers don’t sort of seep in through port forwards; they need to physically identify and exploit a particular vulnerability.

It sounds like this is the free service charging to access data you already gave them with the expectation it would always be available later. And which might not exist elsewhere.

That’s not fremium, that’s ransomware.