After killing The Crew, Ubisoft says The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest will get offline modes

Following Ubisoft’s decision to shut down The Crew’s servers earlier this year – a circulation made even extra controversial when it started revoking gamers’ licensing to the sport – the publisher has offered plans to prevent other entries within the birth-world racing sequence from struggling a identical fate by retroactively introducing offline modes.

Ubisoft started delisting The Crew from digital storefronts final December, asserting it’s a long way going to be completely shutting the sport’s servers down on thirty first March this year. Sadly, its continually-online nature supposed gamers didn’t gorgeous loose get entry to to The Crew’s multiplayer elements when the day came – all its single-player thunder became unavailable too.

The controversy surrounding Ubisoft’s decision resulted in revitalised discourse on video games preservation, and the establishment of Discontinue Killing Games – an initiative aiming to mount political and correct challenges to the increasingly in style incidence of purchased games changing into unplayable. And debate most productive intensified when Ubisoft later started quietly revoking house owners’ licenses to The Crew, making it no longer doable to acquire and set up.

Five months on, Ubisoft has within the extinguish acknowledged player issues round get entry to – or moderately, the entire lack of get entry to – to The Crew in a assertion on social media. And while it would not sound love there’s valuable hope for the everyday The Crew’s revival, the publisher will not be any longer decrease than looking to shield its sequels.

“We heard your concerns about access to The Crew games,” the publisher wrote on Twitter/X. “Nowadays, we’re looking to particular our dedication to the long term of The Crew 2 and The Crew M