Quake is open source and has about a thousand different ways to run on modern computers, but it will also still run on the computer you ran it on in the 90s. I’d assume the average person expects to put the video game in their console and be able to play the video game. The Crew doesn’t function at all when you do that right now, due to no fault of the customer to take care of the thing they bought.
I won’t fact check you that quake apparently runs on native windows 10/11, but even so I dont think anyone expected the game to exist or run forever.
I guess I’m the weird one but I expect MMOs to have a shelf life, and a short one at that. Thats one of the downsides of that game type.
I dont think the argument that peoples expectations were broken is valid. I might agree that people didnt expect the game to be removed from their libraries, but thats what happens in any software store when something becomes unlisted. They didnt remove it from peoples computers, just removed the download.
Deceptive, maybe I suppose if ubisoft implied the game would work offline, or if it had ever worked offline.
I also dont think someone discovering a developer/tester “offline mode” means much of anything.