This would be funny - really funny - if it wasn’t just ‘yet another’ damning indictment of today’s Ubisoft. The online racer The Crew has received a day one patch in order that players can actually join a crew.
Now, I don’t dabble in legalise or courtroom sorcery, but when your game is called The Crew and yet the finished product is actually broken that you can’t actually join a crew…
This racer isn’t in exactly the same situation as Assassin’s Creed: Unity, or even Far Cry 4 though, as The Crew requires you to be online in order to play it. It’s essentially an MMO and so a day one patch shouldn’t be too much of a problem given that gamers already now it’s an online title.
However there’s still something to be said about the fact that The Crew’s primary feature, outside of racing, wasn’t actually ready when the game launched. This is compounded by the fact Ubisoft promised The Crew wouldn’t pull a Unity and be a total mess.
The Crew was also subject to embargo with no copies released earlier to press because Ubisoft argued it wouldn’t be fair to judge an online racer when its community wasn’t racing alongside reviewers. A fair point, but now they’ve likely got people wondering.
The day one patch is 200MB in size and contains a long list of fixes and stability tweaks. It’s not quite the monster patch Unity eventually received with over 300 items in its changelog.
For anyone thinking of getting The Crew, you might want to wait it out.
It releases on PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Xbox 360 today.
