true, but i think this would be exceptionally difficult (if not impossible) to enforce. ubisoft would surely be willing to spend an extra $500k on server hardw

true, but i think this would be exceptionally difficult (if not impossible) to enforce. ubisoft would surely be willing to spend an extra $500k on server hardware while developing a $25MM game, and subtlety bloat their server-side code so that they can say "this is the hardware we had to use to run it". there are a million ways to slow down code/increase hardware requirements that look plausible.