- France's 'leading consumer association,' backed by Stop Killing Games, sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown - 31 March 2026
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.
- Resurrected racer The Crew Unlimited swerves to avoid yet another death, as its curators issue 'one of the most important updates we've ever released' - 24 November 2025
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.
- Having resurrected The Crew, devs behind fan revival project are now working on a big mod to restore the racer to "greatness" - 26 September 2025
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 files from "shady sources", with TCU's devs saying they aren't responsible for the server emulator not working in these cases. Read more
- Fan-made The Crew revival won't fix games "from shady sources," so don't ask - 16 September 2025
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 The Crew, but modders are bringing it back this month New petition that asks devs to "stop destroying games" has over 400k signatures Half-Life YouTuber starts campaign to stop publishers destroying games
- Freshly released The Crew fan revival gets early fixes, devs say they aren't responsible for issues caused by game files from "shady sources" - 16 September 2025
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. Cue a group of fans deciding to set up a server emulator that'd allow them to get it up and running again for players who still had the game files installed. Read more
- Mad-lad fans have revived The Crew after Ubisoft killed it: 'No one will ever be able to take this away from you now' - 15 September 2025
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.
- Despite fakery concerns, Stop Destroying Videogames campaign claim "around 97%" of their signatures are valid so far - 15 September 2025
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
- The Crew is set to spring back to life as fan-made server emulator project prepares to launch later this month - 2 September 2025
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.
- Fan-made The Crew revival gets a release date, a year and a bit on from the Ubisoft racer's controversial shutdown - 2 September 2025
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 concrete end-of-life plans in place, when they decide to switch a game's servers off. It also set a group of Crewers off on a quest to make the game playable again. Read more
- With Stop Killing Games-supported EU petition now closed, the campaign's loudest voice reckons it's "done about as well as is humanly possible" - 5 August 2025
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 of server shutdowns, a chance to take stock of how things have gone to this point. He's keen to take a break, but will first have to see how things pan out with the multiple irons Stop Killing Games and their adjacent groups have in the fire. Read more
- Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint - 22 July 2025
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
- Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' - 20 July 2025
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.
- Stop Killing Games' EU petition hits a million signatures, but "a significant number" could be fake - 4 July 2025
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 permanent access to it, but rather a license to play it for as long as it exists. Read more
- Ubisoft's defense against The Crew lawsuit doubles down on a point we've heard many times before: You don't actually own your games - 10 April 2025
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.
- Ubisoft argues The Crew players should've realised they weren't paying for "unfettered ownership" of a game and whips out the phrase "inactionable puffery" about some words on a box - 10 April 2025
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
- You never owned the game, insist Ubisoft to The Crew players that are suing the publisher - 10 April 2025
Ubisoft's lawyers have responded to a legal action from players of defunct racing game The Crew by insisting that those players never owned the game in the first place. The players made their lawsuit to complain about the game being made unplayable when servers were shut down last year, but Ubisoft have now responded to argue that the game was only "licensed" to those playing, and players should never have expected the game to be useable in perpetuity. Read more
- New petition that asks devs to "stop destroying games" has over 400k signatures - 26 March 2025
A new European Citizens' Initiative, entitled 'Stop Destroying Video Games,' has accumulated over 400,000 signatures and counting. The online petition calls for publishers to ensure that games are left in a playable state when they shut down support. The Crew was left completely unplayable after servers closed last year, and with a range of new games requiring an online connection or online authentication to even be played, including behemoths like Diablo 4, gamers are worried about the future of their favorite titles. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Half-Life YouTuber starts campaign to stop publishers destroying games Half-Life YouTuber plans lawsuit against Ubisoft for killing The Crew Ubisoft takes down its MMO racing game, announces server shutdown
- Proposed class action lawsuit claims The Crew players were 'duped', bizarrely comparing the game shutting down to Ubisoft breaking into your house and stealing parts of a pinball machine - 12 November 2024
Two Californians are suing Ubisoft over fraud, and several other complaints, due to the publisher's shutdown of The Crew in April, which left players unable to access even the singleplayer portion of this online-only racing game. While the lawsuit (spotted by Polygon ) only includes two plaintiffs, the claims are also being made on behalf of other players as well, with the plaintiffs hoping the court will approve it as a class action... Read more.
- New California law inspired by Ubisoft and Sony requires retailers to warn consumers that the digital games they buy can be taken away at any time - 27 September 2024
new California law set to come into effect in 2025 will make it illegal for sellers to use terms like "buy" or "purchase" in relation to digital goods—movies, books, and of course videogames—unless they provide a "clear and conspicuous" warning to consumers that those goods could be taken away from them at any time... Read more.
- After eating it for killing The Crew, Ubisoft promises to bring offline support to The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest - 10 September 2024
Perhaps still stinging from the unexpectedly ferocious reaction to its decision to bring The Crew to a sudden, unwanted stop, Ubisoft announced today that offline modes are being developed for The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest... Read more.
