Ubisoft is delisting The Crew 1 after nearly a decade, but even worse, existing owners will no longer be able to play as of March 2024.
Ubisoft is delisting The Crew 1 after nearly a decade, but even worse, existing owners will no longer be able to play as of March 2024.
Even people who bought it physically!?
Well, it relies on servers to play it on, so I’m pretty sure that yes, even people who bought it physically will be locked out.
Yes. The game requires you to be online at all times even though it’s mostly a single player game.
We need laws requiring companies to patch the game to be playable offline when they inevitably shut the servers down. This is unacceptable.
That wouldn’t hurt, though the current ToS of all platforms like Ubisoft’s or Steam do say that you only buy a subscription/license when you make a purchase. It’s something I bring up when people refuse to pay for Game Pass and think it’s any different.
It always been like that, even with physical games
It requires a connection to the servers to play the single player.
So yes, even people who bought a physical version lose the ability to play the game.
Tl;dr: DRM sucks, buying does not imply owning.