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.

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.

Ubisoft is being sued by a couple of California gamers in a class action lawsuit over the shutdown of The Crew. The game is a 2014 open-world racing game that required an internet connection to work,