Players Sue Ubisoft for Shutting Down The Crew

Two players have filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft for shutting down its racing game The Crew.

Ubisoft shut down the game in March, making all its content, including single-player one, unavailable for players. This decision wasn't popular among the audience. In response to the shutdown, YouTuber Ross Scott, known as Accursed Farms, wanted to file a class-action lawsuit against the company and started the Stop Killing Games campaign. And now, two Californian players are suing the developer for shutting down the game.

"Imagine you buy a pinball machine, and years later, you enter your den to go play it, only to discover that all the paddles are missing, the pinball and bumpers are gone, and the monitor that proudly displayed your unassailable high score is removed," the lawsuit reads (via Polygon). "Even though you paid full price to receive this game, you never knew that the manufacturer could come in one day, and, without your control, leave you with a skeleton of what you thought you paid for," the plaintiffs continued.

In the lawsuit, they state that Ubisoft didn't "provide consumers with the basic courtesy of leaving intact the single-player version of the Game," and thousands of customers were left without any access to the game. The plaintiffs claim that the developer misled the consumers by telling them they bought the game encoded on physical disks while, in fact, it gave them limited license access to the game residing on a remote server.

The plaintiffs' claims include a request to acknowledge that Ubisoft violates the regulation and for "compensatory, statutory, and punitive damages in amounts to be determined by the Court or jury."

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