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Ubisoft has been in the eye of the storm in several occasions, be it for one reason or another, but one of the most recent events that brought forth the disdain of the fanbase towards the gaming company was the complete delisting of the game "The Crew" from all available platforms.

Back in December 14th, 2023, Ubisoft released a post detailing that the very first game in the franchise "The Crew" would effectively have all of its servers shut down, with the deadline being March 31st, 2024. Alongside this, the game would be delisted from all online stores, including PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Amazon Luna and Ubisoft+, with Ubisoft offering a direct link for steps to request a refund. Ubisoft cited "upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints" as the main reasons to delist the game online.

The deadline came around and now the game is currently unavailable in any official manner.

Three months later, a community of devoted gamers have worked on a private server emulator for the game at hand, and on June 20th, 2024, they released a video showcasing what they called the "First Roadtrip After the Shutdown", which is a roadtrip from Detroit all the way to Black Hills in-game.

The full 15 mins video of the complete roadtrip is shown, and the custom server that "The Crew Unlimited" group has put together shows a great amount of dedication and passion for a now unsupported and abandoned game. The server emulator isn't public yet, but those interested can checkout the progress and upcoming news about the server in The Crew Unlimited Discord server.

The Crew Unlimited Discord server

 

[Scarlet]

Damn, that's actually pretty exciting. Always good to see a community rise up where companies fail. They really shouldn't have to, but that's another story.

 

[Lumpofcoal]

I wonder what ubisoft's response will be if any.

 

[HUNTERFOX]

Nice, good job with this article really enjoyed

 

[ComingInHotPink]

I wonder whether giving the same treatment to the X360 version is possible

 

[HellGhast]

I wonder what ubisoft's response will be if any.

Nintendont would have have DMCA'd the project and unleash it's attack-dogs aka lawyers

 

[Subject117m]

Good news, I liked the Crew, but dislike the sequels.

 

[tech3475]

Unless they absolutely can't for some reason, it's a shame companies don't just release the server software or even just the specifications to allow for fan servers after a shutdown.

Nintendont would have have DMCA'd the project and unleash it's attack-dogs aka lawyers

That would be funny....except fan servers for Nintendo games already exist.

 

[SDA]

This was one of their best racing games ever made, and they deleted it.

Fuck Ubisoft.

 

[The Catboy]

Ubisoft best not do shit over this

 

[Marc_LFD]

Ubisoft can go f* themselves I won't be buying their games again (that includes BGE:20A), but am excited about this.

 

[linuxares]

Discord server... Yeah that's a great place for this if ubisoft wanna nuke it and all info in an instance

 

[64bitmodels]

Discord server... Yeah that's a great place for this if ubisoft wanna nuke it and all info in an instance

and if that happens they will immediately start all over again.

Not like they should care anyways, it's a decade old game that they don't care to remaster or rerelease. They can sit and seethe while fans resuscitate their dead game

 

[linuxares]

and if that happens they will immediately start all over again.

Not like they should care anyways, it's a decade old game that they don't care to remaster or rerelease. They can sit and seethe while fans resuscitate their dead game

And all previous information will be ported over? Again Discord is a terrible place for developing and forum activity

 

[Sir Tortoise]

Shoutout to Ross Scott and StopKillingGames - The Crew's shutdown might be the best shot there is to get companies to actually provide an end-of-life plan, rather than the current default of just destroying the game you paid for. The website provides a list of ways to help depending on if you owned The Crew or not, and which country you're in, and this video goes more in-depth into the issue and potential solutions.

 

[ZeroFX]

Discord server... Yeah that's a great place for this if ubisoft wanna nuke it and all info in an instance

Discord is the zoomers first choice to hoard all the information and discussion into somewhere you can't even search for stuff without the thing giving up, and then implode it all because a discord staff didn't liked the place.

StopKillingGames

Games got so much worse problems right now with dei and they come up with some campaign that completely ignores it...

 

[Quore]

This is it bois, we have server emulation to play the game again, now we just have to wait for a private server.

I think it would be amazing if this game get the same treatment as NFS World, around 3-4 servers and each one with your rules, modes, economy and etc

 

[64bitmodels]

And all previous information will be ported over? Again Discord is a terrible place for developing and forum activity

they made the information so yeah.

also this is WIP. I'm sure this will showup on Git once it's ready for full use.

 

[linuxares]

You miss the wholesale point. Lots of info can go to waste (as it have happened to before) if the discord gets nuked.

 

[Sir Tortoise]

Games got so much worse problems right now with dei and they come up with some campaign that completely ignores it...

I'm going to pretend you're talking about an actual issue and just say - single-issue campaigns tend to be a bit more effective than "fix everything". Be the change you want to see in the world.