After killing The Crew, Ubisoft said The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest would get offline modes

Following Ubisoft’s decision to shut down The Crew’s servers earlier this year – a move that became even more controversial when it began revoking players’ licenses to the game – the publisher has announced plans to save other entries in the open-world racing series from a similar fate by introducing offline modes retroactively.

Ubisoft launched Removal of The Crew from digital storefronts Last December, it announced that it would be permanently shutting down the game’s servers on March 31 this year. Unfortunately, its always-online nature meant that players not only lost access to The Crew’s multiplayer elements, but all of its single-player content became unavailable as well.

The controversy surrounding Ubisoft’s decision led to renewed discussion of video game preservation, and the creation of an initiative called Stop Killing Games. Aims to meet political and legal challenges The increasingly common occurrence of purchased games becoming unplayable. And the debate was further fueled when Ubisoft later released a new game called Quietly cancelling owners’ licenses Crew, making it impossible to download and install.

Five months later, Ubisoft has finally acknowledged players’ concerns about access to The Crew – or rather, the complete lack of access – in a statement. Statement on social media.And while it doesn’t seem like there’s much hope for a revival of the original The Crew, the publisher is at least trying to save its sequel.

“We’ve heard your concerns about accessibility to The Crew games,” the publisher wrote on Twitter/X. “Today, we want to express our commitment to the future. The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest.” This was followed by confirmation that an “offline mode to ensure long-term access to both titles” was in the works, and more details were promised “in the coming months”.

In response to today’s news, Stop Killing Games founder and YouTuber Ross Scott wrote“The Crew 2 and Motorsport are getting offline modes. Hopefully this is in response to investigations by consumer agencies in several countries into the legality of disabling them [The Crew 1]which was sold as a one-time purchase with no stated expiration date.”