Ubisoft has ended growth of The Division Heartland, the free-to-play sport set within the universe of Tom Clancy’s The Division, the corporate introduced Wednesday. The sport was introduced in 2021. The writer mentioned it should divert assets elsewhere, particularly to XDefiant and the Rainbow Six franchise.
The Division Heartland was set within the wake of a devastating pandemic that ravaged the fictional flyover city of Silver Creek. Within the multiplayer sport, developed by Purple Storm Leisure, gamers must deal with an ever-changing contamination, new survival obligations, and a lethal nighttime cycle within the free-to-play spinoff of The Division franchise. Ubisoft made an enormous exhibiting of Heartland at its Division Day occasion final 12 months, and performed closed playtests of the sport. However it seems that the writer is following the route of many different publishers who’re canceling in-development tasks or giving up on free-to-play live-service video games.
In current months, a number of AAA publishers and studios have canceled their in-development live-service video games. That features the long-in-development The Final of Us On-line at Naughty Canine and Blizzard Leisure’s untitled fantasy survival sport. And simply final week, Microsoft ended additional growth on Redfall inline with the closure of Arkane Austin.
Nonetheless, The Division Heartland’s cancellation stands out, contemplating the writer’s dedication to distressed tasks like Cranium and Bones — which had a decade-long growth cycle — and the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake. However diverting extra assets to XDefiant could also be simply what that delayed, considerably reworked Tom Clancy sport wants.
Ubisoft has two different introduced The Division tasks within the works: The Division Resurgence, a free-to-play multiplayer third-person shooter cellular sport, and The Division 3, which Huge Leisure and Ubisoft confirmed was within the works final September.
The Division Heartland is considered one of many cancellations Ubisoft has confirmed lately. In 2023, the corporate canceled three unannounced titles alongside Immortals Fenyx Rising 2. The 12 months prior, it slashed 4 in-development tasks that weren’t publicly introduced.
Ubisoft’s lineup for the subsequent 12 months now consists of Murderer’s Creed Shadows (formally revealed earlier at present), Rainbow Six Cell, Star Wars Outlaws, The Division Resurgence, and XDefiant.
