The Crew was downloaded 3 million times on Xbox One during free promo

It turns out that The Crew gained some popularity during it’s time with Xbox’s Games with Gold this Summer as the game gained 3 million users. Alain Corre, Ubisoft CFO had revealed the figure recently and had also mentioned that the game now has more than 8 million registered users across all platforms.
Alain had also revealed that the Games with Gold promotion boosted the population creating a 15-fold increase during the month it was free from June 16 to July 15. “A great achievement for a title released 19 months ago”.
This is makes me wonder how other games have done with Games with Gold since Microsoft introduced in back in 2013. If The Crew benefited big time I am sure others did as well.
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