Following Ubisoft’s latest round of layoffs, The Division 2 delays its next DLC – again
Ubisoft’s Division 2 staff posted a memo to gamers this morning that looks as if excellent news however is being learn as the alternative. For starters, the memo guarantees that the brand new season will certainly start on February twenty fifth as deliberate – high-quality. But then Ubisoft mainly admits to a delay of the next DLC.
“We know you are eagerly awaiting the release of the upcoming DLC,” the devs write. “To ensure we deliver the best possible experience, we’ve decided to take a little extra time to refine it[;] therefore[,] the DLC will not ship during Year 6.”
That takes a bit of disentangling as a result of Ubisoft doesn’t simply imply “2025” by Year 6. Its final Year 6 roadmap included the again half of 2024 in addition to the DLC and season 3 for 2025. So presumably, the top of Year 6 is each time this new third season ends – at minimal a number of months of delay (the game’s subreddit is still arguing over what precisely it means in phrases of timing; it’s virtually as if Ubisoft made it obscure and complicated on objective, eh?).
Either approach, the issue is that this DLC has already been closely delayed; it was supposed to return out a 12 months in the past and has been postpone repeatedly since then. The mood on the sub proper now could be mainly disbelief that the sport will ever recuperate from neglect and that the DLC is vaporware.
Readers who’re listening to the state of Ubisoft proper now know that the company is in a very bad place; amid the Guillemot household’s makes an attempt to take the corporate non-public with Tencent’s help, executives have slashed round 2000 jobs and shuttered a number of studios world wide. Just yesterday, Ubisoft laid off 185 more people, affecting 4 studios in Europe – together with groups that labored on The Division. The logical assumption right here is that the staff engaged on the DLC was hit and subsequently wants extra time. The solely remaining query is whether or not a stay service sport that’s already been kicked round for years can afford that point.
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