As part of Gabriel's mission to Play The Classics, he has been traveling through racing games of Earth's ancient past. That's part of how he came to follow and then support the cries of those who had their lawful purchases annihilated. Or, maybe not annihilated, but simply placed upon a very high shelf - so high that you can jump and jump and yet not secure it.
He was engaged with this, though. There's things that make sense purely as a function of rules, or combinations of rules, and nowhere in that memeplex is a hollow for just, like, a person to be. This sort of thing drives him absolutely fucking nuts. You might read that and say, "Yeah man, I hate dumb stuff too" but "hate" isn't what he is doing. It's utterly inimical to his existence. So the rules that say "I can buy something now, but because I bought it from a person that only licensed some of the things inside it for a limited period of time eventually what I purchased disappears" constitutes something like an Anti-Mike and he must destroy it.
In the modern world, hydrae aren't as easily felled as they once were. They never, ever show their necks if they can get away with it. So when you want to act against them, you have to engage with the parts of themselves you can get a handful of. A blocklist is a good example of a modern hydra-slaying technique; opinions on their true efficacy vary but the algorithmic levers they are lashed to constitute a locus of power. Observe a recent success, in the form of Helldivers 2. The part of the creature exposed there was as near to a neck as we're gonna get, and it changed global policy in a couple days. Returns were part of it, but the levers. Every system contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and as much as I complain about a world governed by these Signals they're also - the their very nature - placed where we can get hold of them.
For something as ancient as The Crew, though, those aren't particularly salient. It can't be sold, or bought, and even if it could, the game is ten years old and has thus passed largely into legend. There is another tool, though, and the unique nature of the game's exile enables it: Refunds. This was part of the Helldivers arsenal as well, but has a higher fence to jump in order to utilize it. And Gabriel did so! But going into the whole thing here in the post would be telling.
(CW)TB out.