Modders restore access to The Crew with both online and offline modes

Ubisoft faced a lot of backlash a couple of years ago when it made the decision to shut down The Crew and delist the game across all digital platforms. This decision ultimately kicked off the Stop Killing Games movement, which recently achieved its petition goals in the UK and Europe. Now, a group of modders have arrived to put things right by restoring access to the game for all. 

The Crew Unlimited has officially released this week. The mod completely was built by reverse engineering the entire game, figuring out how each figure works, and then emulating that functionality. The end result is a version of The Crew playable offline and restored online access for those who want to access multiplayer.

As noted by PCGamer, it took this small team a year and a half to put this together. If Ubisoft had just put in the work to implement an offline mode themselves, they could have avoided a whole lot of backlash.

Ubisoft has not yet commented on the existence of this mod, nor has any legal action taken place. However, we've seen publishers like Take-Two shut down modding efforts before, so if you own The Crew and are interested in maintaining access to the game, you should grab the files while they are still readily available from the official source.

While the mod is advertised as requiring a legitimate copy of The Crew to function, the mod does not actually have any protections in place to avoid pirated copies from using it.

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