Ubisoft is dealing with a proposed class motion lawsuit over its choice to close down The Crew earlier this 12 months, a decade after its preliminary launch. Two gamers submitted the submitting earlier than the California Courtroom, claiming that Ubisoft “duped shoppers” into buying The Crew with out the information that its servers could possibly be shut down, making the net recreation unplayable.
When the shutdown was introduced in December final 12 months, Ubisoft supplied refunds to gamers, however solely those that “just lately” bought the sport. Given the age of the sport, a whole lot of gamers had been unable to obtain theirs.
“Think about you purchase a pinball machine, and years later, you enter your den to go play it, solely to find that each one the paddles are lacking, the pinball and bumpers are gone, and the monitor that proudly displayed your unassailable excessive rating is eliminated,” the plaintiffs’ legal professionals wrote in the lawsuit that was uploaded by Polygon. “Seems the pinball producer determined to return into your own home, intestine the insides of the pinball machine, and take away your potential to play the sport that you just purchased and thought you owned.”
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The lawsuit claims gamers had been duped in two methods: First, by allegedly deceptive gamers into pondering they had been shopping for a recreation after they had been merely licensing it, even when a participant purchased the bodily disk. Second, Ubisoft “falsely represented” that The Crew’s information had been on these bodily disks to entry freely, and that the disks weren’t merely “a key” for the sport. The lawsuit provides that Ubisoft is violating California shopper safety legal guidelines.
That is simply one other addition to the event of avid gamers not realizing what they’re getting after they’re buying a recreation, which is as a rule, the license and never the sport itself. That distinction is one thing that platforms like Steam is making an attempt to make extra obvious while you purchase a digital recreation.
Ubisoft declared it shut down its servers after a decade as a result of “server infrastructure and licensing constraints.” Each the 2018 sequel, merely titled The Crew 2, and the newest entry within the franchise, The Crew Motorfest, will stay unaffected after the servers go darkish.