Dedicated fans have finished the server emulator. For now it's single player only, but they want to release multiplayer later.

You have to get the actual game files yourself (for obvious reasons), but you can find them easily, for example in the internet archive.

I'm in the middle of the campaign right now, and so far it works flawlessly.

And since this was the only racing game I played on a regular basis, I am happy! Fuck you Ubisoft! Thank you dedicated fans!!

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[–] 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I mean, good on people getting this up and running, but "in case you've been living under a rock" may overrepresent how much the average person wants to play The Crew.

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fair, but I wanted to play it again and had been living under a rock, who knows who else missed this.

    And the deactivation of this game started the StopKillingGames campaign (which stays important regardless), there might be at least of few like me out there.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, for sure, it's a good thing. I just found the expression funny in the context. The Crew is what it is.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I'm feeling a little out of the loop here. I know of The Crew only because of it being the flashpoint starting Stop Killing Games. Is it supposed to be a timeless classic I'm missing out on?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's a fun game with a huge open world, but it's not a classic per se. It's just nice to see a dead game running again.

    If Ubisoft had done this from the start... But it brought awareness to the topic, so in the end it's good that they stayed true to their philosophy (of being dicks).

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Too bad it doesn't work for console though. Server emulators are almost always PC only, and in some very extremely rare cases, PC and PS3/Original Xbox.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you have a PC or Laptop there is a good chance you could get it running, the game is pretty "old" and doesn't scream for a high end gaming rig. Maybe that would be an option.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, a pc that runs the Crew well would be fairly cheap now. If you can't just get one donated to you that would otherwise be going to the dump, picking one up from a garage sale or something would be pretty cheap. And you can hook a pc to a TV, set Steam to launch with Windows and enter bigscreen mode when it does. Steam bigscreen mode is used with a controller and has an option to turn off the computer in it's menu. So you could do without a keyboard and mouse 99% of the time.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    That's awesome. Server emulation is a ton of work. I'll be amazed if they actually release multiplayer though.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This is less a "fuck you ubisoft" moment and more a "we need to appease the fans so they forget about the movement" moment

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Thanks for reminding me that I live under a rock. On the sidenote, nice comeback. Don't kill games imitative seem to left its mark already.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    As far as I can tell from a quick look, this is in no way official. Private servers for online games exist for decades by now (at least for MMOs). The issue is the legally grey area (or outright legally dark area) these exist in and that (I assume) it's not that easy to make them with people.having to backwards engineer stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    My bad, I should have looked into it before commenting. It's a community project and not affiliated with publisher Ubisoft, right on the first linked page. So this has nothing to do with "Stop Killing Games" at all.

    Little bit offtopic, but still ontopic somehow: I'm not sure why this is a grey area at all. There is a project for Nintendo games/systems providing community servers and services called "Pretendo Network" (fantastic name, BTW). In example Nintendo is aware of Pretendo, even warning in the public, but do not send their lawyers against it: https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-warns-against-using-unauthorized-services-such-as-online-wii-u-replacement/ (sorry, I have access to Twitter blocked, so I rely on quotes and blog posts):

    “We have confirmed the existence of unauthorized services that replace functions such as online play for the Wii U, which ended service on April 9, 2024. Please refrain from using such services as they may pose unexpected security risks.”

    So, if even Nintendo doesn't do anything against it, then it means its legal. xD

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    So, if even Nintendo doesn't do anything against it, then it means its legal. xD

    Hah, can't argue with that.

    I don't really see into the legal stuff, but I think it is a grey area if you do it independently, without a license from the IP holders. You are technically using their IP and stuff I think. It is especially questionable if you take money for running the service - even if it is donations for just running it and there would be no profit - companies could see it as potentiel profiteering off of their product.

    There are examples of such servers running with the publishers blessing - there is a private server for City of Heroes (called Homecoming I think?) which got official license from NCSoft to run it. This is only private server that I know off that is 100% legal.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    finally, I can step out of my cave; thanks brah!

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