Ubisoft are adding offline modes to The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest after getting savaged over junking The Crew | Gaming

If you partake of some virtual rubber-burning, you might remember Ubisoft shuttered its open world racing game The Crew in March by turning off its servers. Given that The Crew is an online-only game, that signalled its death knell… or death horn, more accurately. Then in April, they tow-trucked the game out of people’s libraries and revoked their purchases. This led to a backlash, as you’d expect, and Ubisoft are accordingly taking a different approach with The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest. They’re giving both an offline mode to “ensure long term access to both titles”.

In a Xwitter post, Ubisoft put out a short video saying that they’re “currently exploring different solutions”, and “can confirm an offline mode”. It’s more than likely this is in response to how…