A major French consumers group is taking Ubisoft to court over the publisher's ending of online support for The Crew in March 2024, rendering the notionally singleplayer-friendly open world racer unplayable. They're acting with the backing of the Stop Killing Games movement, who want publishers at large to stop yanking servers and taking games offline.

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Having reached the point of making their case to the European parliament, the Stop Killing Games's organisers are having to think about keeping their campaign going in the long-term. For example, they're setting up set up NGOs to advocate on the issue of server shutdowns rendering online-only games impossible to play.

Ironically, though, one of the factors the group see as helping ensure their efforts don't end up fading into background noise is the depressing regularity with which games like Highguard are dying in a fashion that's difficult to ignore.

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