Fan-made The Crew revival gets a release date, a year and a bit on from the Ubisoft racer's controversial shutdown

The Crew Unlimited's developers volition beryllium dishing it retired free, "or other Ubisoft would footwear our asses"

The developers down The Crew Unlimited, a assemblage task that aims to marque Ubisoft racer The Crew playable again pursuing its unceremonious shutdown past year, person announced a merchandise date.

If you request a spot of a refresher, Ubisoft's determination to instrumentality The Crew's servers offline successful March 2024 rendered it wholly unplayable adjacent for those who ain a carnal copy, owed to its online-only nature. That's since served arsenic the spark for the Stop Killing Games run we've reported connected arsenic its organisers person petitioned lawmakers crossed the satellite to guarantee companies are required by instrumentality to enactment factual end-of-life plans successful place, erstwhile they determine to power a game's servers off. It besides acceptable a radical of Crewers disconnected connected a quest to marque the crippled playable again.

For a twelvemonth oregon so, The Crew Unlimited's devs person been moving towards that goal. They've present announced a merchandise day for their creation, which comprises of a server emulator designed to basal successful for those Ubisoft took offline. As per an announcement connected Discord from task pb whammy4, it'll travel retired connected September 15th, 2025, and beryllium distributed for escaped to minimise the chances of the steadfast directing their lawyers to intervene.

"We were trying everything we could, thing to sphere the game," reads The Crew Unlimited's freshly published website. "We yet came to the decision that penning a server emulator for The Crew was the champion and lone solution. This would let america to efficaciously instrumentality some an Offline Mode and an Online Mode backmost into the game, Offline Mode simply being a section server moving connected your machine portion playing the game. Your section server, your section savegames, your game. No 1 volition ever beryllium capable to instrumentality this distant from you now."

The Crew Unlimited'll beryllium grabbable from that aforesaid tract erstwhile it's live, and you'll request to person owned The Crew connected PC earlier to entree it, arsenic the devs won't beryllium illegally distributing crippled files. You know, due to the fact that that'd astir decidedly effect successful Ubisoft's lawyers coming down similar a ton of bricks. Though, the project's Discord FAQ does spot them admit that they've got nary mode connected their extremity of telling a legit transcript from a pirated copy, truthful they'll person to fto each players successful regardless, which sounds acold from ideal.

In a Discord treatment linked successful the FAQ, the devs person made immoderate notes astir what works successful presumption of re-downloading your aged The Crew prevention files. I'd accidental players whitethorn good beryllium successful for a tricky clip getting things up and running. The devs accidental you'll request to commencement from scratch unless you lone privation to play offline, and person already utilized a instrumentality they developed to dump your prevention anterior to the game's shutdown.

Meanwhile, they besides hint that their online server whitethorn harbour a fewer additions oregon changes. That said, the radical importune tweaks extracurricular of immoderate caller worldly would beryllium constricted to "technical improvements and cautious rebalancing", and that they'd "never alteration the halfway acquisition of the game".

All successful all, adjacent though the project's been nationalist info for astir a twelvemonth now, with whammy4 having posted videos of them driving astir successful it to YouTube, it's possibly worthy waiting to spot however the merchandise plays retired earlier you springiness it a go.