Scott’s campaign began following an announcement from the major studio Ubisoft, saying it would shut down the online-only racing game The Crew in 2024.<\/p>\n
The French company said it was taking the game, which attracted more than 12 million players during its lifetime, offline, citing “upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints”.<\/p>\n
For players such as Chemicalflood, who told me he had been playing The Crew for nearly a decade, the move – which left the game unplayable – felt personal.<\/p>\n
“I was around 18 at the time of the launch – it was a big part of my adult life growing up,” he said. “It was a great escape from hardship at the time, so it has always been something special to me.”<\/p>\n
Over the years, he said, the game became something he shared with his children, who enjoyed exploring its virtual recreation of the United States.<\/p>\n
“The shutdown itself wasn’t upsetting,” he explained. “But how they handled it was the kick in the teeth.”<\/p>\n
For Chemicalflood and many fans like him, the issue was not that Ubisoft ended support. It was that players lost access altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott’s campaign began following an announcement from the major studio Ubisoft, saying it would shut down the online-only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}