You never owned the game, insist Ubisoft to The Crew players that are suing the publisher
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Summary
Ubisoft’s lawyers have responded to a lawsuit against them by gamers who played the firm’s former title The Crew, arguing that the gamers never actually owned the game but merely had a licence to play it.
The gamers sued after Ubisoft took The Crew’s servers offline, rendering the game unplayable, and claimed that the game’s expiry date should have been 2099 as vouchers to download the game were valid until then.
Ubisoft’s defence is that the expiry date on the vouchers related only to promotional material and that the game’s packaging and terms of use made clear that the game licence was limited and could be revoked.
The firm has also said that the statute of limitations on making such a complaint has expired and that the Californian court hearing the case should dismiss it as the players have suffered no “cognisable injury”.
