Full title: Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version "to access a decade-old, discontinued video game"

Ubisoft's lawyers have responded to a class action lawsuit over the shutdown of The Crew, arguing that it was always clear that you didn't own the game and calling for a dismissal of the case outright.

The class action was filed in November 2024, and Ubisoft's response came in February 2025, though it's only come to the public's attention now courtesy of Polygon. The full response from Ubisoft attorney Steven A. Marenberg picks apart the claims of plaintiffs Matthew Cassell and Alan Liu piece by piece, but the most common refrain is that The Crew's box made clear both that the game required an internet connection and that Ubisoft retained the right to revoke access "to one or more specific online features" with a 30-day notice at its own discretion.

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[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Older than you if you’re asking that question.

[–] Waryle@jlai.lu 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You want to use the "throw everybody out and see what happens", and you claim how much better things would be under your governance.

You're talking like a Elon Musk wanna-be, even using shitty metaphors that mask all the complexity of the problems, and the cruelty that these kinds of decisions imply.

You want to throw 20k employees out without any consideration for the economic and personal consequences, not to mention all the other companies around who will see their business sometimes heavily impacted.

All this to make a stupid metaphor. You're 14 at best.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want to kill a company yes. The problem isn’t nearly as complex as running a gov and I’m not doing this out of malice for the employees but the fact their owners are so aggressively shitty. I think it’s worth affecting the lives of 20k people, most of whom are in France which has great unemployment benefits that would be paid for by the shit owners, to improve the worldwide game industry.

You sound like a teenager barely old enough to graduate high school, that you think you know how the world works because you got some good grades, that you like attacking other people’s characters because you don’t understand logical fallacies as well as older adults, and think that life is generally good and worth defending. Perhaps if you cared art more than the people making it, more than yourself, were as jaded as I am, and better understood how a temporary sacrifice can create a long term gain, you may understand, but your ego and your righteous, unfounded, and aggressive sense of empathy tells me you don’t.

[–] Waryle@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You needlessly want to punish tens of thousands of people for the acts of a few hundred. It's cruel, pointless and very damaging, and your tirades from a high-school essay only support the shallowness and immaturity of your thinking. I won't waste any more time on you.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s not needless it’s necessary for the health of the global industry do you not listen? It’s cruel but not pointless at all. Their death would benefit billions. Not millions, billions. 20k workers, with French fucking unemployment benefits, is a small and laudable price to pay.

That said, keep it up. You sound like you have a bright future ahead of you sucking corporate dick and defending the actions of shitty executives and it’ll pay well, it’ll just cost you your soul, if that even matters to you. Bye.