The Crew has delisted and will remain playable until March 31st, 2024. After this date, the game servers will shut down, which means the game will not be accessible anymore.https://t.co/P0h453kJfTpic.twitter.com/QKRmzvDrrB
— Wario64 (@Wario64) December 14, 2023
This is one of the first "successful" live service games from the 8th generation to be rendered unplayable because of its always online design, even though there was no reason it had to be that way. Forza Horizon 5, for example, has a very extensive live service component but is playable offline. The Crew was designed with an expiration date either because of laziness or an intentional desire to stop people playing.
I actually bought the Crew on some deep sale and haven't played it so I guess I will, but this is why I am very leery of buying games that are always online. I have a stable online connection but as someone who likes to play old games and mostly doesn't care about multiplayer this just sucks and I'm not sure why more people don't get angry about it. Ubisoft is flogging a new version of The Crew right now and they won't get a sale from me except at a very, very, steep discount because it's more of a rental than a purchase. You can argue that all games (especially digital games) are, but I can still play OG Forza Horizon whenever I want.
So many Ubisoft games require online servers now, a huge chunk of their catalog will be wiped out over time.
And it's going to happen to games that people care about a lot more than The Crew.
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