{"id":40393,"date":"2016-09-19T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=40393"},"modified":"2016-09-19T05:55:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:55:17","slug":"crew-free-finally-good-reason-install-uplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2016\/09\/19\/crew-free-finally-good-reason-install-uplay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crew for free is finally a good reason to install UPlay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ubisoft’s driving MMO The Crew (aka, Tom Chick’s 2014 GOTY) is available for free. There’s just one catch, and it’s the same catch for any game by Ubisoft: you have to install UPlay. As part of some sort of insane “here, have a bunch of free games that don’t suck!<\/em>” initiative at Ubisoft, they’re giving away a different game every month for seven months. And not giving away as in making them free for that month only. These are yours even past that month. And you don’t have to keep paying for a subscription service to keep your game. It’s yours for free and forever. So long as you have Uplay installed.<\/p>\n

I suspect part of the thinking behind giving away The Crew is that Ubisoft hopes to sell you a copy of the Wild Run DLC, which isn’t included in the free giveaway. And I hate to tell you this, but it’s good DLC. It adds a few new types of gameplay and a whole new track of advancement and competition.<\/p>\n

However, this free deal only applies to the PC version. Which looks great, especially when you’re accustomed to the console version. I had played — even recently since it’s a game with those kinds of long legs — the Playstation 4 version. But I made the mistake of installing the PC version to “have a real quick look”. And, oops, here I am playing an MMO, realizing all over again that it’s not a grind when it’s a game this good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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