If a guy doesn't pay $3, has a knife and threatens the police -> mental problem. The answer isn't shooting but handling the situation and deescalating.
Represented as a volume is also great. If I'm not wrong, his wealth in 500€ bills is a 165 m (180 yards) cube. One million is 3 l (a little less than 0.8 gallons).
But if the game has to call home every time it starts and there is no server your game won't work. StarCraft can be played offline, as it was created, but you need to connect to play because Blizzard.
"If a game needs a server and the official servers shut down, the protocols have to be released to the public". I think it would be a good starting point.
That "get registered" is one of the things I don't understand why hasn't been changed. In Spain you can vote the moment you are 18. No need to register anywhere. The only register that need to be updated is "where you live", so you go vote to your nearest location.
If a guy doesn't pay $3, has a knife and threatens the police -> mental problem. The answer isn't shooting but handling the situation and deescalating.