The Crew is a 2014 street racing game produced by Ubisoft…and it’s online-only. That means you have to connect to a server in order to play it. However, because it’s old and they’re currently at the third version of the game they’ll be shutting down those servers. Apparently people still play the original but Ubisoft doesn’t care. They aren’t making money on it, and they aren’t going to refund you for a game they’ll stop you from playing.
None of my games at this time require you to be online, either for multiplayer or simply as an anti-pirating measure (allegedly), though I still can’t get Batman: Vengeance to play on Windows 10 and finally start that let’s play series I announced YEARS AGO! Still upset about that. However, The Crew is not unique as a game no longer playable for those who bought it. Gaming YouTube channel Accursed Farms has been chronicling games about to die or already dead, even without multiplayer, not because you can’t find the hardware to run it or having whatever issue I’m having with Batman: Vengeance but because some server was shut down without the game being patched officially to work on fan servers or simply offline, and channel host and creator Ross Scott has gotten tired of that ever growing list.
Having done a few videos on The Crew, Scott has decided to use it as the test subject for a mission to reverse this trend of games ending without a patch to play it, forcing you to spend money on the sequel without any benefit of owning what becomes a bunch of useless junkware otherwise. In the following video, he describes his plan to save these games from the grim reaper and how other gamers and gaming fans can take part in preserving these older games.
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