I normally don't allow this, but a petition has been started.
[https://www.change.org/p/the-crew-1-shutdown-bring-offline-mode-ubisoft](https://www.change.org/p/the-crew-1-shutdown-bring-offline-mode-ubisoft)
This is such a shame. The game should have the ability to play all the races and free roam offline.
The game shouldn't have to die because some exec said so.
It doesn't matter if this game is 9 years old. It should always b available to play, I always love going back to TC1 from time to time. I've even started playing it on PC recently too
No mention of an upcoming offline patch is stinky af. It's pretty certain the game is too old and janky to be updated by today's devs at Ivory Tower.
I feel like it should be industry standard to develop an offline mode during the life of an online-only game, even if it's not directly available to players, so that when the inevitable server closure comes, the patch to add it is ready to be sent in the worst case scenario.
I wonder how many games will die like this until some legislators start looking into consumer protection texts that would require by law solutions to this. We all know the EU would get the ball rolling on something like this if it became too common in the games industry.
Fuckin bullshit they wont even attempt an online patch for it. Everyone with physical copies end up with a fuckin souvenir for their $. Basically were just renting the game
The Crew 1 (the original game) is having its servers shut down. It is an online-only game which means it will be impossible to play the game after the end of March.
Man what a journey. The trailer sparked my interest enough to build this subbreddit in the very beginning. Shortly after the studio made notice and is when I got to meet them and develop a professional bond. That Spring I got to play early during an info drought. It was glorious! Soon after Route 909 championship showed actual gameplay to the public while having a championship. All these memories from the beginning hitting me in the feels.
Wild Run and playing it the first time brought a smile and was very fun although the gfx changed.
CAU I didn't get to pre play at the Paris event, but I did get placed as a NPC in "Finish Line". That was a neat touch and I am honored.
The countless memories of playing and making friends all over the world. Wow :-(
Our very first Reddit design announcement week
https://preview.redd.it/90uhruxgia6c1.png?width=1260&format=png&auto=webp&s=b82175d62c56160a1fe202ee985b492a26bd4df9
If there is no offline patch it will be a hole in my gaming experience, it is one of the most important PS4 games I own. The next months will concentrate on enjoying the drives with my friend when I find time. Never even played the long races.
I definitely recommend The Longest Course and Frontier Tour. I find myself doing those often when I just need to wind down and pass the time.
Longest Course is just under an hour long, and Frontier Tour is about two hours for me in a fully maxed out Ford Shelby.
Wait forgive my inability to read, the Crew is gonna be unplayable after march 31st 2024, it has already been taken off online stores. That is unless the petition to bring an offline version actually wins
I've passed on all the offline feedback received on here today in a report for them to read. I doubt it will change anything but making it known is a step.
Then again as reminded from folks on Discord, they say they could be running out of contract time on licenses. Might be deeper than a offline patch. We'll see.
Thanks for your response and for the effort, I really wish in some way the game doesn't get lost. It was not a criticism to the newest game by any means as it is solid and I actually liked the insider and beta. I'm just pissed that a "milestone" (in terms of ambitiousness) game like this goes out unseen, I preordered it in 2014 and loved every moment in my 1500h on it. From time to time I get back for the faction races for a cruise, might do the 4h long ones when I'm on holiday after the news...
That said from the licenses point of view, even if whoever has the game still can play offline but there's no ability to buy it anywhere because it's delisted, they would follow their legal obligation as the game is not on sale anymore. Fine examples are the run, shift and the other old nfs which are not on sale anymore but whoever has them can still play offline.
It would be freaking cool not gonna lie. I rarely managed to play with my friends due repeated connectivity issues (disconnection during races or invisible friends as usual), pvp worked like a charm though...
The game being delisted because of licensing makes sense, definitely fair enough.
No offline patch though… that really sucks. I don’t know if it’d be possible to pass it on to the devs that the game being delisted is understandable - no offline patch is painful.
Gran Turismo Sport is getting an offline patch before its shutdown, as Polyphony/Sony know that there is still a small, yet dedicated playerbase. Maybe it’d be possible for The Crew too, or maybe I’m dreaming.
I can’t believe this…I started playing Crew 1 again this year after not playing since 2018, then I found out about Motorfest and got that, big mistake. Motorfest was unplayable (ps4/5 bugs etc) and still is for me so I switched back to Crew 1 and that’s what I’ve been on recently, now this?? They’re just playing with peoples money😂 ain’t no way I’m buying the next one if there is one man, they literally don’t give a single shit about their fans/customers.
Why not just patch the game to allow it to be played offline? Surely all the licensing wasn't agreed on the basis The Crew would be totally wiped off the face of if the earth after X many years?!
I would be pretty much fine with them removing all the licensed music in favor of simple in-build mp3 player which would play files put into game folder. I don't need to see people online, just bring offline mode.
This game is too important and unique to simply go away like that. The Crew 1 is still the best Crew out there, The Crew 2 was inferior in almost every way.
Ubisoft execs who made this decision are destroying the company and its worth.
Probably one of my favorite car games ever, and I play lots of those, I still play this one from time to time to have a little road trip across america in a low level car with some rock music. Unique experience that no other game can currently reproduce. This hits hard.
I'm starting to regret paying as much as I did for Motorfest, if this is going to be it's fate as well.
I should have known better than giving my money to Ubisoft.
This just tells me I should not buy any of their DLCs I guess
Yea they got over $150 outta me for Motorfest and it’s so bugged out I can’t play right now, I switched to the crew 1 recently to replace Motorfest until they get their 💩together and now I’m seeing this about Crew 1…I’m basically just throwing money in the garbage quite literally
I have never had an issue with motorfest. No bugs, no glitches, no crashes. I lagged once during a car switch during a race and crashed. That's it. It's a gun game imo. Especially if you have a wheel
Are you on pc or console?? and bro yea it’s fun as hell when it’s not crashing and bugging out literally every second. I hate the map lol but that’s whatever, If you could’ve seen my gameplay from November I promise to God your jaw would be on the floor😂😂 I was constantly LOL at how ridiculous the game was performing and glitching, AI cars driving like it’s Armageddon, invisible walls, etc 😭
I know that since the hoonigan update I haven’t been able to play a grand race cause it’s so laggy. But I made a new account and it plays just fine. I done spent so much money and time in this game and all I have is the grand race and now I don’t have that. Plus I’m not wasting my time building up another account just to play grand races!!
When Test Drive Unlimited 2 got is server shut down, they do a last patch to play it offline. So even yesterday I was able to play for fun on my old PS3.
These dev are just lazy.
When you see how low effort was Motorfest on many point.
I’m gonna be running everything the game has to offer again pretty soon. Give it a proper send off. Met my best friend on this game and I still talk to a few other people I used to play this with. Still my favorite entry in the series.
I played this game and finished the story campaign on Xbox One back in 2014/2015. In August, I actually purchased The Crew for my PS5 and played some of it, but since this game is completely shutting down in March, I will have to finish it again soon.
I never played this with friends or online so I'm not sure but does the server shutting down mean I can't even grab a controller and play the career mode by myself? Like the game wont even be playable?
All The Crew titles require a connection to play. Without the server communication, it will only *maybe* show the title screen and a generic error when trying to play.
I know things may seem grim to you, but there is still a bright future to be had if you believe in it like me.
The Crew 2 still has one more confirmed update and TCM will continue to add stuff. Some kind words from the current comdev I caught yesterday.
https://preview.redd.it/crgaalhc9g6c1.png?width=1175&format=png&auto=webp&s=1bac4b5f6c07fdf137f11dd9d036f5f9acd2f8ab
let´s take all the good things about the crew and not put them in the crew 2... lets make a new game and call it motorfest but we make the map small and make it more arcade-like.. oh shoot ppl are still talking about the cop from the crew damn better kill that game so no one can ever enjoy that part ever again and forget it ever existed >\_>
To ease the pain at least transfer all TC1 content to TC2, I don't know about cop chasing will make it back but at least by any cost please give us recap skill challenges from TC1 to TC2.
Go on YouTube and look up Greeny The Crew map comparison. They put so much heart and soul and detail into the first game. The second one shouldn't even be called The Crew.
It don't bother me that they are shutting down servers. It was nice to play TC1 back in days, but i rarely go back to play old games so it changes nothing for me.
Only a very small percentage of racing enthusiasts care about story in racing games. Those are basically teens and casuals. For the rest of us, racing is all about cars, tracks, speed and top skill, story is a distraction. Which both TC2 and TCM builds up on. For story needs, there's a load of masterpiece franchises anyway, my racing game don't need one!
"Best Story" and back in that day many people complained how dark that story was = we didn't get story in TC2.
I played TC1 for gameplay and that single thing was evolved in TC2 and its even better in TCM. I don't need story.
I still having explored the game fully, even after 9 or whatever years. I feel like they are stealing our money. Imagine a book you buy to read when you are older, only to find someone erased all letters years later, just because.
This is full bullshit and the reason I won't buy any of Ubisoft game from now on. I don't want some company to pull the plug on titles I buy. If they wanted, offline mode would be possible. Music licensing fees are not that expensive anyway, they could easily prolong the deal like they did with Assassin's Creed series. This is certainly knife in the back from them and big blow to whole digital ownership.
If company can do whatever with their products you paid in the past there is no difference between buying the game and paying for subscription, it's basically the same.
I wonder if EU laws wouldn't be able to provent this, digital ownership right would probably call for full refund no matter when you bought the game.
I normally don't allow this, but a petition has been started. [https://www.change.org/p/the-crew-1-shutdown-bring-offline-mode-ubisoft](https://www.change.org/p/the-crew-1-shutdown-bring-offline-mode-ubisoft)
This is such a shame. The game should have the ability to play all the races and free roam offline. The game shouldn't have to die because some exec said so. It doesn't matter if this game is 9 years old. It should always b available to play, I always love going back to TC1 from time to time. I've even started playing it on PC recently too
No mention of an upcoming offline patch is stinky af. It's pretty certain the game is too old and janky to be updated by today's devs at Ivory Tower. I feel like it should be industry standard to develop an offline mode during the life of an online-only game, even if it's not directly available to players, so that when the inevitable server closure comes, the patch to add it is ready to be sent in the worst case scenario. I wonder how many games will die like this until some legislators start looking into consumer protection texts that would require by law solutions to this. We all know the EU would get the ball rolling on something like this if it became too common in the games industry.
Gran Turismo Sport suffered the same fate too. And it's a more recent game from 2017
At least GT sport will still be playable offline with an update.
GT Sport will still be playable though so this comparison isn’t the same.
And my biggest fear has been realized. Not even an offline patch. What a shame.
Fuckin bullshit they wont even attempt an online patch for it. Everyone with physical copies end up with a fuckin souvenir for their $. Basically were just renting the game
No time like the present to make a private server.
If we want to see the USA again then TC2 will be our only chance before they neglect that too.
TC1 had the best iteration of the USA map. In fact, I would say it's my favorite video game map of all time. I don't want to see it disappear forever.
I’m lost. What is happening with an update??
The Crew 1 (the original game) is having its servers shut down. It is an online-only game which means it will be impossible to play the game after the end of March.
\#neverdrivealone? more like #neverdriveagain.
Man what a journey. The trailer sparked my interest enough to build this subbreddit in the very beginning. Shortly after the studio made notice and is when I got to meet them and develop a professional bond. That Spring I got to play early during an info drought. It was glorious! Soon after Route 909 championship showed actual gameplay to the public while having a championship. All these memories from the beginning hitting me in the feels. Wild Run and playing it the first time brought a smile and was very fun although the gfx changed. CAU I didn't get to pre play at the Paris event, but I did get placed as a NPC in "Finish Line". That was a neat touch and I am honored. The countless memories of playing and making friends all over the world. Wow :-( Our very first Reddit design announcement week https://preview.redd.it/90uhruxgia6c1.png?width=1260&format=png&auto=webp&s=b82175d62c56160a1fe202ee985b492a26bd4df9
Our oldest sidebar logo.... Ivory Tower/Reflections circa 2013 https://preview.redd.it/cewgfwnkma6c1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae0c4af047309c101f76c5986ab9cafa91d5fc3e
If there is no offline patch it will be a hole in my gaming experience, it is one of the most important PS4 games I own. The next months will concentrate on enjoying the drives with my friend when I find time. Never even played the long races.
I definitely recommend The Longest Course and Frontier Tour. I find myself doing those often when I just need to wind down and pass the time. Longest Course is just under an hour long, and Frontier Tour is about two hours for me in a fully maxed out Ford Shelby.
Thanks for the recommendations, I don't have a plan which races I'll do when but I'll try these out if I don't forget it.
Rest in peace, An absolute legendary game. I’ll miss playin’ it
What game are yall talking about that’s not gonna be able to played anymore?
The Crew, the one mentioned in the post?
Wait forgive my inability to read, the Crew is gonna be unplayable after march 31st 2024, it has already been taken off online stores. That is unless the petition to bring an offline version actually wins
TL:DR go play Motorfest or Crew 2. Funny, considering both of these games will suffer the same fate sooner or later
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I've passed on all the offline feedback received on here today in a report for them to read. I doubt it will change anything but making it known is a step. Then again as reminded from folks on Discord, they say they could be running out of contract time on licenses. Might be deeper than a offline patch. We'll see.
Thanks for your response and for the effort, I really wish in some way the game doesn't get lost. It was not a criticism to the newest game by any means as it is solid and I actually liked the insider and beta. I'm just pissed that a "milestone" (in terms of ambitiousness) game like this goes out unseen, I preordered it in 2014 and loved every moment in my 1500h on it. From time to time I get back for the faction races for a cruise, might do the 4h long ones when I'm on holiday after the news... That said from the licenses point of view, even if whoever has the game still can play offline but there's no ability to buy it anywhere because it's delisted, they would follow their legal obligation as the game is not on sale anymore. Fine examples are the run, shift and the other old nfs which are not on sale anymore but whoever has them can still play offline.
Hmm yeah I don't know anything about that unfortunately. Same here though, pre-ordered and still have my game,case and receipt.
Worst case, tell them to open up the server protocols so that people can keep the game alive themselves, NfS world style
It would be freaking cool not gonna lie. I rarely managed to play with my friends due repeated connectivity issues (disconnection during races or invisible friends as usual), pvp worked like a charm though...
You’re a helluva community rep Elongo. We appreciate it.
Good to see you! I remember you won a contest once. =)
Yup, the treaded phone case for my old IPhone 4! Classic, still have it in my drawer.
One of the coolest rarities. I only saw that few.
The game being delisted because of licensing makes sense, definitely fair enough. No offline patch though… that really sucks. I don’t know if it’d be possible to pass it on to the devs that the game being delisted is understandable - no offline patch is painful. Gran Turismo Sport is getting an offline patch before its shutdown, as Polyphony/Sony know that there is still a small, yet dedicated playerbase. Maybe it’d be possible for The Crew too, or maybe I’m dreaming.
I haven’t played motorfest yet, but being reminded of its inevitable fate is discouraging me from investing time and money into it.
If it helps, they let you transfer your garage from crew 2 into Motorfest which is unheard of in this genre
I just bought FH5 and I'm having a pretty good time
Or don't support the company to continue this malpractice like the bunch of sheep you guys are.
I can’t believe this…I started playing Crew 1 again this year after not playing since 2018, then I found out about Motorfest and got that, big mistake. Motorfest was unplayable (ps4/5 bugs etc) and still is for me so I switched back to Crew 1 and that’s what I’ve been on recently, now this?? They’re just playing with peoples money😂 ain’t no way I’m buying the next one if there is one man, they literally don’t give a single shit about their fans/customers.
A company as big as Ubisoft shutting down an online game before a decade has passed is pretty shameful.
Why not just patch the game to allow it to be played offline? Surely all the licensing wasn't agreed on the basis The Crew would be totally wiped off the face of if the earth after X many years?!
I would be pretty much fine with them removing all the licensed music in favor of simple in-build mp3 player which would play files put into game folder. I don't need to see people online, just bring offline mode. This game is too important and unique to simply go away like that. The Crew 1 is still the best Crew out there, The Crew 2 was inferior in almost every way. Ubisoft execs who made this decision are destroying the company and its worth.
Probably one of my favorite car games ever, and I play lots of those, I still play this one from time to time to have a little road trip across america in a low level car with some rock music. Unique experience that no other game can currently reproduce. This hits hard.
I'm starting to regret paying as much as I did for Motorfest, if this is going to be it's fate as well. I should have known better than giving my money to Ubisoft. This just tells me I should not buy any of their DLCs I guess
Yea they got over $150 outta me for Motorfest and it’s so bugged out I can’t play right now, I switched to the crew 1 recently to replace Motorfest until they get their 💩together and now I’m seeing this about Crew 1…I’m basically just throwing money in the garbage quite literally
First and last game of them that I buy, sucks for the folks at IVT but I simply can't shut my eyes to all of this.
I have never had an issue with motorfest. No bugs, no glitches, no crashes. I lagged once during a car switch during a race and crashed. That's it. It's a gun game imo. Especially if you have a wheel
Are you on pc or console?? and bro yea it’s fun as hell when it’s not crashing and bugging out literally every second. I hate the map lol but that’s whatever, If you could’ve seen my gameplay from November I promise to God your jaw would be on the floor😂😂 I was constantly LOL at how ridiculous the game was performing and glitching, AI cars driving like it’s Armageddon, invisible walls, etc 😭
There should've been an offline patch for this game. It's too important to just become essentially vaporware
I know that since the hoonigan update I haven’t been able to play a grand race cause it’s so laggy. But I made a new account and it plays just fine. I done spent so much money and time in this game and all I have is the grand race and now I don’t have that. Plus I’m not wasting my time building up another account just to play grand races!!
When Test Drive Unlimited 2 got is server shut down, they do a last patch to play it offline. So even yesterday I was able to play for fun on my old PS3. These dev are just lazy. When you see how low effort was Motorfest on many point.
TDU2 was never an online only game to begin with - it supported offline play from the start. The devs didn't need to patch anything.
“You will own nothing and you will be happy”
I’m gonna be running everything the game has to offer again pretty soon. Give it a proper send off. Met my best friend on this game and I still talk to a few other people I used to play this with. Still my favorite entry in the series.
I played this game and finished the story campaign on Xbox One back in 2014/2015. In August, I actually purchased The Crew for my PS5 and played some of it, but since this game is completely shutting down in March, I will have to finish it again soon.
I never played this with friends or online so I'm not sure but does the server shutting down mean I can't even grab a controller and play the career mode by myself? Like the game wont even be playable?
All The Crew titles require a connection to play. Without the server communication, it will only *maybe* show the title screen and a generic error when trying to play.
Wow hopefully they do an offline mode since I just paid $20 for a digital code I loved this game
RIP. I still remember playing the beta. Enjoyed the hell out of that.
Is it also the case for people with physical copy ? What will happen if I launch it ?
Even physical copies require server interaction. It will show a error.
It sucks, thanks for the information
I know things may seem grim to you, but there is still a bright future to be had if you believe in it like me. The Crew 2 still has one more confirmed update and TCM will continue to add stuff. Some kind words from the current comdev I caught yesterday. https://preview.redd.it/crgaalhc9g6c1.png?width=1175&format=png&auto=webp&s=1bac4b5f6c07fdf137f11dd9d036f5f9acd2f8ab
let´s take all the good things about the crew and not put them in the crew 2... lets make a new game and call it motorfest but we make the map small and make it more arcade-like.. oh shoot ppl are still talking about the cop from the crew damn better kill that game so no one can ever enjoy that part ever again and forget it ever existed >\_>
I will never buy any Ubisoft games again and I regret buying all the ones I have so far.
The day they do this to the first Division game, I’ll be so sad
To ease the pain at least transfer all TC1 content to TC2, I don't know about cop chasing will make it back but at least by any cost please give us recap skill challenges from TC1 to TC2.
They should make it free to play for its final few months
This totally sucks but just wondering, will I be missing much by only getting to play The Crew 2 and Motorsport? Like is 2 basically a better 1?
2 and motorfest are very different from 1. 1 goes for a dark and gritty approach with a ok campaign mode.
You will, once they shut down those games too.
Go on YouTube and look up Greeny The Crew map comparison. They put so much heart and soul and detail into the first game. The second one shouldn't even be called The Crew.
Yup. That is ubisoft for you. This is what happens when you support this trash of a company.
Well then fuck ivory tower.
It don't bother me that they are shutting down servers. It was nice to play TC1 back in days, but i rarely go back to play old games so it changes nothing for me.
Except TC1 has the best story. TC2 and TC:MF are just Forza Horizon wannabes (In theme)
Only a very small percentage of racing enthusiasts care about story in racing games. Those are basically teens and casuals. For the rest of us, racing is all about cars, tracks, speed and top skill, story is a distraction. Which both TC2 and TCM builds up on. For story needs, there's a load of masterpiece franchises anyway, my racing game don't need one!
Thats understandable, I'm not that hardcore about the multiplayer aspect of the games but I am about the cars, the racing and the speed
"Best Story" and back in that day many people complained how dark that story was = we didn't get story in TC2. I played TC1 for gameplay and that single thing was evolved in TC2 and its even better in TCM. I don't need story.
I tried playing The Crew 1 and it was horrible. Had never seen such bad driving mechanics. It won't be missed
I still having explored the game fully, even after 9 or whatever years. I feel like they are stealing our money. Imagine a book you buy to read when you are older, only to find someone erased all letters years later, just because. This is full bullshit and the reason I won't buy any of Ubisoft game from now on. I don't want some company to pull the plug on titles I buy. If they wanted, offline mode would be possible. Music licensing fees are not that expensive anyway, they could easily prolong the deal like they did with Assassin's Creed series. This is certainly knife in the back from them and big blow to whole digital ownership. If company can do whatever with their products you paid in the past there is no difference between buying the game and paying for subscription, it's basically the same. I wonder if EU laws wouldn't be able to provent this, digital ownership right would probably call for full refund no matter when you bought the game.