After 350,000 signatures in an EU consumer rights campaign, Ubisoft is adding offline modes to The Crew games - but not the now-dead original
Sep. 10, 2024“We heard your concerns about access to The Crew games”
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Earlier this year,Ubisoftshut down the servers for The Crew, leaving the always-online racing game completely unplayable even to those who’d already bought it. The backlash to this decision has spawned a massive consumer rights campaign that’snow seeking 1 million signatures in the EU, and in the wake of that response, the devs are adding offline modes to newer The Crew games - but not the now-dead original.
“We heard your concerns about access to The Crew games,” Ubisoft says in a message onsocial media. “Today, we want to express our commitment to the future of The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest. We can confirm an offline mode to ensure long term access to both titles, stay tuned for more news in the next months.”
Ubisoft hasn’t directly addressed that campaign here - and importantly, they’re still not bringing back a playable version of the original Crew - but the “concerns” the company cites are certainly tied up with this whole campaign. “I don’t want to get my hopes up,” YouTuber Ross Scott, who has spearheaded the Stop Killing Games effort, says onTwitter, “but I’m hoping this is in response to which way the wind is blowing on consumer agencies in multiple countries investigating the legality of disabling The Crew 1 sold as a one-time purchase with no expiration date.”
The ESA says its members won’t support the one form of game preservation that might actually work.
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