Ubisoft felt bad enough about killing The Crew in 2024 that it promised to never, ever do it again—in The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest, at least. But it doesn't feel so bad that it's willing to admit it actually did anything wrong: In response to a proposed class action lawsuit over the shutdown filed last year, Ubisoft said the plaintiffs in the case knew—or should have known—that they were only buying "limited licenses" to access the game.
Ubisoft's response to the lawsuit, filed in February and available via Polygon, makes multiple claims as to why the suit should be dismissed, including that relevant statutes of limitation have expired, that no "cognizable injury" was suffered, that there's no evidence the plaintiffs wouldn't have bought the game anyway, and as already mentioned, that the plaintiffs knew what they were getting into because of "the explicit warnings on The Crew's packaging that plaintiffs were obtaining a limited license to access the game."
