Back in 2023, Ubisoft announced it would shut down The Crew’s servers on 31st March, 2024, which would make the game unplayable due to its always online requirements – even those with physical copies of the game were to be locked out. Needless to say, many were unhappy with Ubisoft’s decision.
Some, though, decided not to just leave it there, and set about reviving the game on their own time and dime. Now a little over a year later, the fan lead Crew revival project – known as The Crew Unlimited – is gearing up for its release on 15th September.
But, what has it taken to get to this point?
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“We started working on the server emulator project (to revive the game) a bit before the official server shutdown,” project lead whammy4 told Eurogamer. “Ever since then it’s been a non-stop technical uphill battle: network data analysis, reversing, implementation, rinse and repeat.”