When i said hardware bans , I meant you down load a game and the game software scans your hardware and says you cant play due to your system doesn't meet the requirements , that should be left to the user to decide there are still old cpus and motherboards that can still play modern games even at 60fps , for example I used a phenom 1090t 6-core with a 980ti to play battlefield 5 @80 fps on medium in 2020 had that cpu since dec 2009 , I HAVE upgraded to 3950x and new complete rig ,,, Im just saying that the hardware companies' are pushing for hardware bans to sell more parts because computer parts can now go further in long term use they dont want that they want to sell parts and i get it . Now I did try to down load bf2042 on the Phenom 1090t 6 core rig and it said the hardware didnt meet the requirements , just like Blizzard on COD said the same thing .
But since i've upgraded to 3950x rig , I definitely love max settings at 150 + fps no REGREATS AT ALL ... I LOVE BF FRANCHISE since the first release long long ago..