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SAAS. You never install the entire application. Large parts of the engine never run locally.
Although that still never totally protects it. I've seen a fair few number of passionate game communities bring online-only games back from the dead by reverse engineering the server architecture. It's a lot of work, but if you know how the software is supposed to function then you can write the other half of the software that gives the response to make that work.
City of heroes is a big example
The original code for that was leaked, most if not all replacement servers run that code, not reverse engineered code.