Ubisoft Massive originally planned to wrap up support for The Division 2 in 2020, the game’s creative director has revealed.
Speaking with MP1st, Yannick Banchereau explained that plans to end support two years after release wasn’t down to the quality of the The Division 2 as a game, but rather because Massive was so busy on other projects.
It’s crazy when you think about it, huh? That’s the beauty of it. It’s been quite a real rollercoaster because Yes, the plan was after Update 12, at the end of 2020, the plan was to, to stop supporting the game. Because as the question mentions, we started working on the Star Wars game, we have the Avatar game. Everybody’s very busy at Massive and the idea was that we just need the people on those projects.
It wasn’t because The Division 2 was bad just we need the people on the other projects. You know what happened is the game remained successful and probably more successful than we had anticipated after the release of Warlords of New York, and the different seasons. So that allowed us to kind of resume the conversation internally of maybe we should keep going.
Speaking during the same interview, Banchereau revealed that it is unlikely Ubisoft will work on a native PS5 and Xbox Series X/S version of The Division 2.
[Source – MP1st]