2026-03-31 20:39 UTC · PC Gamer · Andy Chalk
French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, with support from the Stop Killing Games initiative, has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft over the 2024 shutdown of the racing game The Crew. An announcement on the UFC-Que Choisir (Google translated) says Ubisoft's decision to close the game and revoke licenses "violated fundamental consumer rights," and that "players were never fairly informed about the potentially temporary nature of access to the game they were buying.".. Read more.
2025-11-24 15:50 UTC · PC Gamer · Rick Lane
Open world online racer The Crew was recently resurrected by a team of enthusiast developers after its original developer Ubisoft wrote it off last year. But it turns out The Crew Unlimited was on course to return to the scrapyard relatively soon, had its new pit crew not nixed a peculiar bug that recalls the most infamous computer glitch of the 20th century... Read more.
2025-09-26 10:24 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Earlier this month, fan-made revival project The Crew Unlimited, brought Ubisoft's decommissioned racer The Crew back to life in server emulated PC form. Now, its devs have put out an update outlining a couple of things they're working on to try and take things to the next level. This looks to be the first time the group have been able to catch their breath since releasing The Crew Unlimited on September 15th, having had to work flat out on fixes for teething issues in the immediate aftermath. Some of those problems stemmed from some players having acquired broken versions of The Crew's game f
2025-09-16 16:02 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
You've got to hand it to the developers behind The Crew Unlimited. They are doing what Ubisoft refused to, and supporting the always-online racer for players who bought it. Ubisoft decided to turn the servers off last year, rendering the game completely unplayable, despite the fact that fans shelled out their hard-earned cash to buy it just a decade earlier. However, in a recent update the devs involved with this fan-made revival have put their foot down and refuse to help players who acquired the game from "shady sources." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ubisoft might have killed
2025-09-16 09:33 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The Crew Unlimited, a fan project making Ubisoft racer The Crew playable again following its unceremonious shutdown last year, released yesterday, September 15th. There's been some early issues to rectify, with the developers having put out two hotfixes already and emphasised that they're "not responsible" for any problems caused by people having grabbed "broken/corrupted game files" from "shady sources". As we reported earlier this month, The Crew Unlimited's devs started working on it not long after Ubisoft pulled the racer's official servers offline in March 2024, rendering it unplayable.
2025-09-15 16:06 UTC · PC Gamer · Joshua Wolens
I'll be honest, I never really understood all the ardour for The Crew, but that's no criticism. There are plenty of games (hello, Mafia 3) that I love to the absolute bafflement of my friends and loved ones, and I'd be very sad if they got taken away. So even if I don't know what people see in The Crew, I certainly understand the upset at Ubisoft killing the servers and making the game unplayable last year... Read more.
2025-09-15 15:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
There's a fresh update from the organisers of the Stop Destroying Videogames citizens' initiative, that being the petition asking EU lawmakers to look into the issue of publishers rendering online games unplayable when servers are switched off. Despite some concerns on their part a few months ago, the group claim that while the signatures they amassed are still being verified, "early reports from several countries" suggest "around 97%" of these are valid. Read more
2025-09-02 22:13 UTC · PC Gamer · Andy Chalk
The Crew, the Ubisoft street racing game that met an unfortunate end in 2024, may live again. The Crew Unlimited, a fan-made effort to revive the game through a "custom server emulator," says the work is just about complete and will be ready to launch on September 15... Read more.
2025-09-02 11:53 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The developers behind The Crew Unlimited, a community project that aims to make Ubisoft racer The Crew playable again following its unceremonious shutdown last year, have announced a release date. If you need a bit of a refresher, Ubisoft's decision to take The Crew's servers offline in March 2024 rendered it totally unplayable even for those who own a physical copy, due to its online-only nature. That's since served as the spark for the Stop Killing Games campaign we've reported on as its organisers have petitioned lawmakers across the world to ensure companies are required by law to put conc
2025-08-05 11:51 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The Stop Destroying Videogames citizens' initiative, the petition asking EU lawmakers to look into the issue of publishers rendering online games unplayable when official support runs its course, hit its deadline at the end of last month looking like it'd amassed more than enough signatures. With that phase over, the Stop Killing Games campaign that's vocally supported efforts like this is left to await the outcomes, whatever they might be. That's given YouTuber Ross Scott, who's become the loudest voice publicising this worldwide push for action on consumer rights when it comes to these sorts
2025-07-22 12:48 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The Stop Destroying Videogames citizens' initiative, the EU petition that's part of the Stop Killing Games campaign, has had an anonymous transparency complaint filed against it. That's according to Ross Scott, the YouTuber who's become the figurehead of Stop Killing Games, which in case you're out of the loop aims to stop publishers rendering online games unplayable when official support ends. Instead, the movement wants companies to be required to put concrete end-of-life plans in place if they elect to do things like turn servers off. Read more
2025-07-20 14:49 UTC · PC Gamer · Rick Lane
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has addressed the Stop Killing Games consumer rights campaign, stating that end-of-life support for old online games 'a far reaching issue' that the publisher is 'working on' but that 'nothing is eternal' when it comes to videogame services... Read more.
2025-07-04 11:28 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The Stop Killing Games campaign's petition to the European Commission has hit a major milestone, surpassing a million signatures. However, the YouTuber behind this effort to stop companies from rendering games unplayable by shutting down their servers is still asking for more folks to get their pens out and sign, due to concerns about fakery. If you're out of the loop, Ross Scott originally launched Stop Killing Games back in 2024, after Ubisoft pulled racing game The Crew offline. Cue a lot of debates about terms of service which tell folks that when you buy a game, you're not buying permanen
2025-04-10 20:26 UTC · PC Gamer · Andy Chalk
Ubisoft felt bad enough about killing The Crew in 2024 that it promised to never, ever do it again—in The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest, at least. But it doesn't feel so bad that it's willing to admit it actually did anything wrong: In response to a proposed class action lawsuit over the shutdown filed last year, Ubisoft said the plaintiffs in the case knew—or should have known—that they were only buying "limited licenses" to access the game... Read more.
2025-04-10 12:01 UTC · VG247
A response from Ubisoft and its lawyers to the claims of an ongoing lawsuit a number of The Crew players affected by the game's shutdown has surfaced, and it's an interesting read, if pretty depressing if you're still under the illusion that you actually own any of the games you've bought. Read more
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