Wanna be the empress of Crashin’?īy midday Saturday, one day after the game's launch, cracking-group Empress claimed first dibs on stripping Crash 4's PC version of its online check-in system. Perhaps even more embarrassing to Activision, this DRM effort only lasted a single day. While this isn't the first 'offline' game to be saddled with online-only DRM (those honors go to February's Blizzard Arcade Collection), it's arguably the highest-profile game to get such an official limit and one that follows the revived platforming series' shift from Steam to. The latter case, debuting exclusively on Activision-Blizzard's app, saw the publisher take an unusual step: requiring an online connection to launch the game. 2020's Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time received a soft relaunch on Friday that revolved around next-gen console patches, a downgraded port for Nintendo Switch, and a debut on Windows PC.
