News inside jeuxvideo.com The Crew, the game that no longer belongs to anyone – LaPetitePelle Dessine jeuxvideo.com N°522
It’s Friday, it’s almost the weekend… what if it wasn’t LaPetitePelle’s day? Buying a game to use it without moderation or expiration date is the minimum. Unfortunately, quite the opposite happened for The Crew players. LPP takes his pencil and shows us what he has in mind.
This week we will focus on the controversy of The Crew which swells. American society has definitely deleted the game, the year he turned 10. The fans are calling to boycott the next games!
The closure of the servers is causing… a lot of talk
Released in 2014, The Crew was an online racing game. It was developed by Ubisoft Ivory Tower And Ubisoft Reflections then published by Ubisoft. Although it’s not the most well-known game of all, it has a solid community. However, 10 years after its release on the various consoles (PS4, Xbox One and Windows), Ubisoft has decided to permanently close the servers. This decision caused a feeling of injustice for players, who are calling to boycott the French company’s next releases.
The total closure of the game, however, was completed in several months, since last March 31, it started with the shutdown of online servers. While players expected to be able to continue playing in an offline mode, the studio simply revoked the license to buyers of The Crew. The game is now impossible to launch, regardless of whether you have the physical version of the game or not.
Other games under threat?
Although Ubisoft’s decision is making people talk, they are well and truly within their rights ! The possibility that other developers use the same practice is therefore possible, even if it is rare. With the release of
The Crew Motorfest
And Star Wars Outlaws, the car game community is pushing for a boycott by imagining the same scenario for these games, 10 after their publication.