As a “dedication to [their] future”.
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Following Ubisoft’s choice to close down The Crew’s servers previously this year – a relocation made more questionable when it started withdrawing gamers’ licensing to the video game – the publisher has actually revealed strategies to avoid other entries in the open-world racing series from suffering a comparable fate by retroactively presenting offline modes.
Ubisoft started delisting The Crew from digital shops last December, revealing it would be completely shutting the video game’s servers down on 31st March this year. Its always-online nature implied gamers didn’t simply loose access to The Crew’s multiplayer components when the day came – all its single-player material ended up being not available too.
The debate surrounding Ubisoft’s choice caused revitalised discourse on computer game conservation, and the facility of Stop Killing Games – an effort intending to install political and legal difficulties to the significantly typical event of bought video games ending up being unplayable. And dispute just heightened when Ubisoft later on started silently withdrawing owners’ licenses to The Crew, making it difficult to download and set up.
The Crew Motorfest released last September.Watch on YouTube
5 months on, Ubisoft has lastly recognized gamer issues around gain access to – or rather, the total absence of gain access to – to The Crew in a declaration on social networks. And while it does not seem like there’s much wish for the initial The Crew’s revival, the publisher is at least aiming to safeguard its follows up.
“We heard your issues about access to The Crew video games,” the publisher composed on Twitter/X. “Today, we wish to reveal our dedication to the future of The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest.” It then verified “an offline mode to make sure long term access to both titles” remains in the works, guaranteeing more information “in the next months”.
In action to today’s news, Stop Killing Games creator and YouTuber Ross Scott composed, “The Crew 2 and Motorsport is getting an offline mode. Ideally this remains in reaction to customer companies in several nations examining the legality of them disabling [The Crew 1]which was offered as a one-time purchase without any specified expiration date.”