Ubisoft declared it shut down its servers after a decade due to "server infrastructure and licensing constraints." Both the 2018 sequel, simply titled The Crew 2, and the latest entry in the franchise, The Crew Motorfest, will remain unaffected after the servers go dark.

Ubisoft is being sued by two gamers in California over its shutdown of open-world racing game The Crew in March. A class action lawsuit spotted by Polygon was filed November 4 by Matthew Cassell, who bought The Crew from a GameStop in early 2020, and Alan Liu, who also bought it from a GameStop but in November 2018.

In 2014, Ubisoft launched The Crew as an open-world, always-online racing game with a campaign and multiplayer mode. It was a fairly successful game for Ubisoft, spawning two sequels— The Crew 2 and Crew: Motorfest.

Two gamers in California are suing Ubisoft for shutting down The Crew, an open-world game, in March 2018. Both gamers have filed lawsuits because they purchased the game to own it rather than on a limited license basis.

Ubisoft is being sued by two gamers in California for allegedly misleading customers into believing they owned 'The Crew' before its servers were shut down.

Two gamers from California are suing The Crew publisher Ubisoft for shutting down the game's servers earlier this year, making the game unplayable. This lawsuit argues that Ubisoft misled customers about game ownership,