Yesterday, Ubisoft announced that it would be working on offline modes for both The Crew 2 and Crew Motorfest after facing a fierce backlash against taking the servers for the original game offline.
The Crew Unlimited's project to make the game completely playable offline has reached a big milestone.
The move was met with delight from series enthusiasts, and when coupled with a whopping discount, The Crew 2 has now smashed its three-year-old record-high player count on Steam.
Over the past 24 hours, the news of an offline mode and a huge 98% discount, which sees the game available for $1/£0.84, has caused a massive rush of players to The Crew 2.
According to Steam Charts, the game has 22,675 players playing right now, a record high for both the title and the series. This number eclipses the game's previous record, which was set in June 2021, in which a maximum of 12,707 players were in the game at a single time. When the game launched in July 2018, a maximum of 6,019 players were playing the game, making these numbers doubly impressive.
The series record to this point was the 12,707 players set by The...
