10 Video Games You Didn't Realise Shut Down In 2024

10. The Crew

Ubisoft's racer The Crew first launched in December 2014, and in late 2023 the publisher delisted it from all storefronts while announcing that the game's servers would be shut down on March 31, 2024, effectively killing it outright given its online-only nature.

After The Crew's closure, Ubisoft additionally revoked licenses from players, preventing them from devising mods to make the game playable offline. This proved all the more infuriating as players had reported discovering unused code within the game for an offline mode.

As a result, sequels The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest were review-bombed on Steam, and two players even filed a class action lawsuit against Ubisoft, accusing them of misleading players into believing they permanently owned the game when they purchased it.

Elsewhere, some fans are attempting to revive the game by developing an offline mode and also migrating its files to private, player-hosted servers.

While the original Crew seemingly remains officially dead for good, the backlash did at least prompt Ubisoft to confirm last year that legit offline modes are on the way for The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest.