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The Latest Breaking News from The Crew

Former Playdead Co-Founder Says Tech Can Solve the “Stop Killing Games” Problem

Will publishers soon have the tools to guarantee game preservation?

Operation Sports

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'

The patch fixes The Crew's equivalent of the Y2K bug.

PC Gamer

As Ubisoft makes The Crew 2 playable offline, Stop Killing Games lead takes a moment to celebrate: "This is due to pressure from Stop Killing Games early on"

Back when the offline mode was announced, the lead said "I never thought it would happen before some sort of ruling from one of the consumer protection agencies"

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Gamers hand Ubisoft a rare 'W' as The Crew 2's offline mode finally goes live

"Hybrid Mode," as it's properly known, lets players choose between online and offline play, or just automatically loads the game into offline mode when no connection is available.

PC Gamer

Mad-lad fans have revived The Crew after Ubisoft killed it: 'No one will ever be able to take this away from you now'

The Crew Unlimited is out today.

PC Gamer

The Crew is set to spring back to life as fan-made server emulator project prepares to launch later this month

More than a year after Ubisoft pulled the plug, The Crew Unlimited is just about ready to put it back in.

PC Gamer

After Ubisoft's shutdown of The Crew spawned the Stop Killing Games movement, a group of fans are finally ready to release a server emulator to keep the racer alive: "No one will ever be able to take this away from you now"

"Your local server, your local savegames, your game"

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‘Stop Killing Games’: Demands for game ownership must also include workers’ rights

When French video-game publisher Ubisoft announced it was shutting down servers for The Crew, a popular online racing game released in 2014, it wasn’t just the end of a title. It marked the beginning of a broader reckoning about the nature of digital ownership, led by players angry at the…

The Conversation

"Stop Killing Games has actually changed the timeline": As EU petition comes to successful close, founder says "unending overtime" has him ready to "take a break for the next 10 years," but he's sticking around until it's done

"You know that life-draining machine from The Princess Bride? Yeah, I feel like I might have had a round or two on that"

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Ubisoft CEO addresses Stop Killing Games after overseeing the deaths of The Crew and XDefiant: "Support for all games cannot last forever"

"Clearly this is a far-reaching issue, and we're working on it"

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Prominent European politician agrees that "a game, once sold, belongs to the customer, not the company" as Stop Killing Games faces resistance from European publishing group saying its demands aren't "proportionate"

Nicolae Ștefănuță says he will "continue to help" those behind Stop Killing Games

GamesRadar

The big "Stop Killing Games" petition just hit 1 million signatures — in partial thanks to one dev who tried to kill it

#StopKillingGames completed its goal despite one prominent developer opposing the movement.

Windows Central

Ubisoft updates on the offline mode for its popular racing game, hoping to avoid the fiasco of The Crew's server shutdown

After the uproar when Ubisoft flat out killed The Crew, an update has been made on progress for offline play in the sequel.

Windows Central

With the Stop Killing Games consumer rights campaign at 437,000 signatures, Ubisoft says "we have been reading your comments" in an update on offline mode for The Crew sequels

Seven months later, Ubisoft's got an update on these offline modes

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Ubisoft is keeping its promise to add an offline mode to The Crew 2, and testing begins next week

Ubisoft hopes to have the offline mode released by the end of 2025, but warned that The Crew Motorfest will take longer.

Windows Central

Ubisoft says you don't own your video games, read the fine print

PC Gamer

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

Ubisoft claims consumers were given "clear and conspicuous" notice that they were only buying a "limited license" to access the game.

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Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version "to access a decade-old, discontinued video game"

The Crew players "received the benefit of their bargain and cannot complain now that they were deceived," Ubisoft argues

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2024 was the year gamers really started pushing back on the erosion of game ownership

Talk about getting owned.

PC Gamer

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

The question of ownership in the digital age rears its head again.

PC Gamer

After eating it for killing The Crew, Ubisoft promises to bring offline support to The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest

Ubisoft said the offline mode will "ensure long term access" to both games.

Player One

A New Racing Experience Arrives as The Crew Motorfest is Now on Steam

The game finally makes its way to Steam. Get ready for a new online racing experience.

PC Gamer

Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is

Ubisoft has gone one step further to try and stop people getting into The Crew.

PC Gamer

The Crew removed from sale, will become unplayable after April 1: 'We understand this may be disappointing for players still enjoying the game'

Ubisoft said the closure is necessary "'due to upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints."

Windows Central

Ubisoft is killing off a game millions have bought thanks to one of gaming's worst trends

Ubisoft Ivory Tower's first open world racer, The Crew, is not much longer for this world. That makes me sad, and it's all thanks to a horrible trend in gaming.

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