Contracts can have all kinds of clauses in them stating that it's valid to break it if this or that happens.
What is troublesome is if UbiSoft have paid for development costs of Storm of War. It would be trickier to get out of that one in such a case.
Any contract can usually be broken, if one has the cash to pay for the penalty of breaking it. Storm of War is probably big business as far as revenues go, so it could make sense to pay to get out of UbiSoft's upcoming poor treatment of it.
It is alsooo possible that Storm of War could be published by UbiSoft and not have to sign up for spyware services at Ubi - i.e. they would not implement it in that title as an exception to their new rule. I do think I read that they said that 'most' titles would have their crappy spyware arrangement, which means there is room for exceptions.
I would most likely not ever pay for a copy of Storm of War that comes with UbiSoft spyware. I would rather pay Maddox Games as well.
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