PSA: if you own the crew, consider taking action.
Especially if you live outside of the US!
Maybe raise a stink with your attorney general and/or representative, too. The whole idea that a company can sell licenses for something and then arbitrarily decide they don’t want to do it anymore and revoke all the licenses doesn’t sound legal. And if it is, it doesn’t sound like it should be.
Is their removal of these licenses a measure to somehow prevent people from taking action?
I own the crew, but honestly think it’s a shit game that’s not worth my attention.
The Crew was great in its time. It was basically the bridge between Test Drive Unlimited (superior open world gameplay) and early Forza Horizon (superior driving physics). Later Forza Horizon games simply took all the good gameplay features from both TLU and The Crew and is unmatched in quality now.
The Crew 2 was worse than both its predecessor and the competing Forza Horizon at that time, so if you were talking about that I’d half agree. But it’s still a problematic industry trend worth stopping.
Lmao, fuck licenses; pirate it, and we’ll make our own servers.
They can’t do shit then
Afaik nobody has cracked it as it’s always-online, though I’d be happily incorrect about this if one can slide me some sauce. I’m one of the affected players in the shutdown (still play occasionally) so the ability to continue playing this game would be very nice.
If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.
The problem is this game can’t even be pirated due to how it’s architected.
For anyone who doesn’t think this is a problem, watch this video and join this campaign.
The Crew represent a real chance to change things globally (seriously, watch the video).
If you want to do something about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE
When Nintendo eshop closed, I lost all my purchases. I tried contacting Nintendo to see if they could transfer my purchases to my switch account, but contacting Nintendo is like trying to contact god, you’re gonna get nowhere
Boycott this shit company
Been doing that for years. Will happily continue.
But I’m just one person. Ubisoft won’t feel it unless hundreds of thousands more do the same.
Same
release server software and let us self host!!!
they dont even need to foot the cost for anything.
That eats into their profits for their other/new games
Thanks UbiSoft for rubbing it in my face with this message, “You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?”
As if copies of a game on your computer is somehow more digital than the copy being on a disk or a chip that’s ROM.
It’s a shame, but people are asking for it when they buy, and therefore support, these kind of games. If people simply refused to buy always-online games, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Literally victim blaming. Classy.
