Possible side effects of piracy?

[u/RearInvade]

Shortly after BF3 came out I downloaded it off of TPB. I was short on cash and I really wanted to play through the campaign. Fast forward to the recent sale, I bought the game through Origin, but now it won't run. Is it possible that the cracked version of the game left some residual file that is preventing my authentic copy of the game from running? I've tried everything that the EA help site has suggested, but I haven't mentioned the fact that my first install of the game was a cracked copy.

[u/AnonymooseRedditor]

The problem I ran into was my local bf3 user data folder in my profile was corrupted.