{"id":1541170,"date":"2026-03-31T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nu6yXxKMYjMqZ6VCLLwXPR"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:39:56","slug":"frances-leading-consumer-association-backed-by-stop-killing-games-sues-ubisoft-over-the-crew-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/frances-leading-consumer-association-backed-by-stop-killing-games-sues-ubisoft-over-the-crew-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s &#8216;leading consumer association,&#8217; backed by Stop Killing Games, sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, with support from the Stop Killing Games initiative, has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft over the 2024 shutdown of the racing game The Crew. An announcement on the UFC-Que Choisir (<a href=\"https:\/\/www-quechoisir-org.translate.goog\/action-ufc-que-choisir-jeux-video-l-ufc-que-choisir-assigne-ubisoft-en-justice-suite-a-la-fermeture-du-jeu-the-crew-n175318\/?_x_tr_sl=fr&#038;_x_tr_tl=en&#038;_x_tr_hl=en-US&#038;_x_tr_pto=wapp\" target=\"_blank\">Google translated<\/a>) says Ubisoft&#8217;s decision to close the game and revoke licenses &#8220;violated fundamental consumer rights,&#8221; and that &#8220;players were never fairly informed about the potentially temporary nature of access to the game they were buying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Crew launched in 2014, but became unplayable in April 2024 after Ubisoft closed the servers it depended upon; adding insult to injury, it began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/racing\/ubisoft-is-stripping-peoples-licences-for-the-crew-weeks-after-its-shutdown-nearly-squandering-hopes-of-private-servers-and-acting-as-a-stark-reminder-of-how-volatile-digital-ownership-is\/\">stripping people&#8217;s licenses<\/a> to the game a few weeks later, presumably to prevent them from playing it on then-hypothetical fan servers. It proved to be a PR botch of truly epic proportions, to the point that Ubisoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/racing\/after-eating-it-for-killing-the-crew-ubisoft-promises-to-bring-offline-support-to-the-crew-2-and-the-crew-motorfest\/\">promised to never, ever do it again<\/a>\u2014even as it doggedly defended the initial decision by reminding gamers that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/ubisofts-defense-against-the-crew-lawsuit-doubles-down-on-a-point-weve-heard-many-times-before-you-dont-actually-own-your-games\/\">don&#8217;t actually own their games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Stop Killing Games initiative, launched by YouTuber Ross Scott, is maybe the biggest thing to come out of the whole mess. What initially looked to me like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/stop-killing-games-campaign\/\">long-shot campaign<\/a> to squeeze some promissory pleasantries out of game publishers has exploded into something much larger: An EU Citizens Initiative started by STG drew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/final-count-for-stop-killing-games-petition-verifies-1-3-million-of-its-1-4-million-signatures-well-above-the-minimum-to-be-formally-considered-by-eu-politicians\/\">1.3 million verified signatures<\/a> and is due to be debated by EU politicians in April, and in February the group announced that it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/stop-killing-games-is-launching-ngos-in-the-european-union-and-the-us-were-not-just-going-away-on-this\/\">launching NGOs in Europe and the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC-Que Choisir lawsuit is also meaningful. Founded in 1951, the group describes itself as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www-quechoisir-org.translate.goog\/page-que-choisir-ensemble-qui-sommes-nous-n14333\/?_x_tr_sl=fr&#038;_x_tr_tl=en&#038;_x_tr_hl=en-US&#038;_x_tr_pto=wapp\" target=\"_blank\">France&#8217;s leading consumer association<\/a>,&#8221; providing everything from product comparison tools and buying guides to investigative reports, legal advice, lobbying, and direct legal action like this.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the lawsuit isn&#8217;t to force Ubisoft to bring back The Crew, but rather to keep this sort of thing from happening again &#8220;by obtaining a pioneering decision essential to clarifying the obligations incumbent upon videogame publishers.&#8221; UFC-Que Choisir said in the lawsuit announcement that it is seeking an end to &#8220;harmful practices,&#8221; a removal of clauses in terms of service agreements that enable publishers to shut down games without warning or recourse, and an acknowledgement of the harm done by these practices.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you just really wanna play The Crew, you can: Modders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/racing\/resurrected-racer-the-crew-unlimited-swerves-to-avoid-yet-another-death-as-its-curators-issue-one-of-the-most-important-updates-weve-ever-released\/\">brought it back to life<\/a> in 2025. Just think of all the hassles that could&#8217;ve been avoided if Ubisoft had done that itself in the first place. <\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"4cf27536-bf44-45d2-932d-0baa6425caeb\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/frances-leading-consumer-association-backed-by-stop-killing-games-sues-ubisoft-over-the-crew-shutdown.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"4cf27536-bf44-45d2-932d-0baa6425caeb\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/frances-leading-consumer-association-backed-by-stop-killing-games-sues-ubisoft-over-the-crew-shutdown\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, with support from the Stop Killing Games initiative, has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft over the 2024 shutdown of the racing game The Crew. An announcement on the UFC-Que Choisir (Google translated) says Ubisoft&#8217;s decision to close the game and revoke licenses &#8220;violated fundamental consumer rights,&#8221; and that &#8220;players were never fairly informed about the potentially temporary nature of access to the game they were buying.&#8221; The Crew launched in 2014, but became unplayable in April 2024 after Ubisoft closed the servers it depended upon; adding insult to injury, it began stripping people&#8217;s licenses to the game a few weeks later, presumably to prevent them from playing it on then-hypothetical fan servers. It proved to be a PR botch of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/frances-leading-consumer-association-backed-by-stop-killing-games-sues-ubisoft-over-the-crew-shutdown\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1541171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748],"class_list":["post-1541170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>France&#039;s &#039;leading consumer association,&#039; backed by Stop Killing Games, sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, with support from the Stop Killing Games initiative, has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft over the 2024 shutdown of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/frances-leading-consumer-association-backed-by-stop-killing-games-sues-ubisoft-over-the-crew-shutdown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"France&#039;s &#039;leading consumer association,&#039; 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