Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew

Thor summarizes the problems with this initiative pretty well: https://youtu.be/ioqSvLqB46Y

Cries in MMOs from 20 years ago.

"You're gonna hate the way it feels. I guarantee it."

I mean, that's basically all AAA games in 2024. Even songs PC ports which historically avoided DRM and network requirements is starting to mandate PSN accounts. I 100% would prefer to be able to play offline, more often than not it's unwanted telemetry or BS bloat but that isn't something we as users can enforce.

At this point I'm afraid only government intervention would help (with citizens asking it to do so)

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Granny ain't fuckin around

Close enough

Reindeer begin keeping tabs on her whereabouts in response.

It gets to be way harder to argue in court when it isn't a "clean kill", using Ross Scott's words, so The Crew is going to be one of the best examples we'll ever get for courts to rule on. I expect Ubisoft would rather settle than let this one go that far though.

I imagine a lawsuit would likely bring up the topic of how hard it would be for a developer to keep the game around past purchase.

For instance, imagine a massively multiplayer online game; everyone playing the game is acutely aware of how much server hardware is needed to maintain that online presence, and it's unrealistic to assume it would exist forever.

That's probably why attention was pushed onto The Crew. It's a racing game that shouldn't need much from a server, so it's arguably unfair to tie it to that access and take it offline.

It won't