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7/19/2025, 1:26:50 PM
>Ubisoft CEO addresses Stop Killing Games after overseeing the deaths of The Crew and XDefiant: "Support for all games cannot last forever"
>Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was asked to respond to the movement at a recent shareholders meeting, and while that response was tentative, it wasn't a complete dismissal.
>Guillemot says that the company provides "information regarding the game and how long the game can be played," though he doesn't go into specifics about how those notices work. The Crew did have a badge on its front box noting "online connection required," and a notice in the fine print on the back that "Ubisoft may cancel access to one or more specific online features upon a 30-day prior notice." Whether those sorts of notices are legally sufficient will likely be put to the test, in the EU at least, after the Stop Killing Games petition passes its final deadline at the end of the month.
>Additionally, Guillemot cites "a one-Euro fee proposed to all buyers of the game. For just one Euro they got to buy the next version." As Game File notes, this appears to be in reference to a big sale on The Crew 2 which ran across digital marketplaces in 2024, bringing the price down to €1/$1.
>"It’s not a whole lot of money to be able to continue playing a game," Guillemot says, though whether he omitted the detail or this is an issue with Ubisoft's official translation, buying a sequel at a discount is not the same thing as being allowed to continue accessing your own copy of the original.
>Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was asked to respond to the movement at a recent shareholders meeting, and while that response was tentative, it wasn't a complete dismissal.
>Guillemot says that the company provides "information regarding the game and how long the game can be played," though he doesn't go into specifics about how those notices work. The Crew did have a badge on its front box noting "online connection required," and a notice in the fine print on the back that "Ubisoft may cancel access to one or more specific online features upon a 30-day prior notice." Whether those sorts of notices are legally sufficient will likely be put to the test, in the EU at least, after the Stop Killing Games petition passes its final deadline at the end of the month.
>Additionally, Guillemot cites "a one-Euro fee proposed to all buyers of the game. For just one Euro they got to buy the next version." As Game File notes, this appears to be in reference to a big sale on The Crew 2 which ran across digital marketplaces in 2024, bringing the price down to €1/$1.
>"It’s not a whole lot of money to be able to continue playing a game," Guillemot says, though whether he omitted the detail or this is an issue with Ubisoft's official translation, buying a sequel at a discount is not the same thing as being allowed to continue accessing your own copy of the original.
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