{"id":804672,"date":"2025-12-06T05:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ubisoft-reportedly-revoking-the-crew-from-owners-libraries-following-server-shutdown?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:56:49","slug":"ubisoft-reportedly-revoking-the-crew-from-owners-libraries-following-server-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ubisoft-reportedly-revoking-the-crew-from-owners-libraries-following-server-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft reportedly revoking The Crew from owners&#8217; libraries following server shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ubisoft-reportedly-revoking-the-crew-from-owners-libraries-following-server-shutdown.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nAfter shutting down The Crew&#8217;s servers at the end of March, Ubisoft has reportedly started removing the open-world racer from owners&#8217; libraries and revoking their user license.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUbisoft delisted The Crew &#8211; which would otherwise be celebrating its tenth birthday later this year &#8211; from digital storefronts last December, with the publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ubisoft-delists-the-crew-with-servers-shutting-next-year\">announcing<\/a> it would be permanently shutting the game&#8217;s servers down on 31st March 2024. And that didn&#8217;t just mean The Crew&#8217;s multiplayer elements would no longer be accessible; due to the game&#8217;s always-online nature, all single-player content would cease to be available too.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEven so, The Crew fans &#8211; some of whom had hoped the game might live on through private servers &#8211; were shocked to discover that Ubisoft had seemingly started revoking owners&#8217; licenses earlier this week too, making the game impossible to download and install.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ubisoft-reportedly-revoking-the-crew-from-owners-libraries-following-server-shutdown?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ubisoft-reportedly-revoking-the-crew-from-owners-libraries-following-server-shutdown?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After shutting down The Crew&#8217;s servers at the end of March, Ubisoft has reportedly started removing the open-world racer from owners&#8217; libraries and revoking their user license. Ubisoft delisted The Crew &#8211; which would otherwise be celebrating its tenth birthday later this year &#8211; from digital storefronts last December, with the publisher announcing it would be permanently shutting the game&#8217;s servers down on 31st March 2024. And that didn&#8217;t just mean The Crew&#8217;s multiplayer elements would no longer be accessible; due to the game&#8217;s always-online nature, all single-player content would cease to be available too. Even so, The Crew fans &#8211; some of whom had hoped the game might live on through private servers &#8211; were shocked to discover that Ubisoft had seemingly started revoking&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ubisoft-reportedly-revoking-the-crew-from-owners-libraries-following-server-shutdown\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":804673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[259,648,773,11401,199,8711,8673,59,44,168,54,4635,3987,273,9797,534,60],"class_list":["post-804672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-action-adventure","tag-asobo-studio","tag-first-person","tag-ivory-tower","tag-mmorpg","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-multiplayer-cooperative","tag-pc","tag-ps4","tag-racing","tag-single-player","tag-the-crew","tag-third-person","tag-ubisoft","tag-ubisoft-reflections","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-one"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ubisoft reportedly revoking The Crew from owners&#039; 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