The Division Heartland has been cancelled

[John Elden Ring]

 

[ksdixon]

What's wrong with the idea of a base game, and seasons upon seasons of content. Div2 NY Helicopter Ride DLC shows we aren't constrained by Div2 location/thematic structure.

I do wish they'd return the Pulse to Div1 style though. Really helped the old peepers to see enemies better, that did. On Div2 I pretty much work as a tag team with a drone, but I preferred Div1 Pulse to Div2 Drone Buddy for sure.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

Yeah, this game has gone through multiple testing periods and it never managed to get it right it seems from multiple reports. I guess this means that Div3 is going to come out faster now(still a long ways away for sure).

 

[Gods&Monsters]

That's a crazy amount of work cancelled. That's like TLOU online. I'm sure they can salvage some of it but oof.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

That's a crazy amount of work cancelled. That's like TLOU online. I'm sure they can salvage some of it but oof.

Ubisoft has been trying to get a second Rainbow Six Siege for years, they had like 41241321 different GaaS pitches and quite a few that got some decent dev time before they shelved those projects. Although I'm pretty sure Heartland is clearly the one which they spent the most time on, they've had gameplay trailers since 2022

Longer in dev than the rebooted TLoU online project is very likely
That's a costly write-off.

 

[Savagefrogdemon]

They will roll the content from this into the division 3.

 

[Vertigo]

This is pretty huge tbh. Unfortunate but Division 3 is happening right?

Remember that Heartland was being worked on by a different dev team outside of Massive.

 

[AllBizness]

Good riddance, glad this abomination was canceled. It was going to be dark zone only type gameplay and not the PvE stuff the Division is best known for.

 

[Syndr0mePK]

Ubisoft has canceled its upcoming free-to-play shooter, Tom Clancy's The Division Heartland, amid larger plans to focus resources on "bigger opportunities."

This news was revealed as a part of Ubisoft's earnings release this morning, with the company saying it has "redeployed resources to bigger opportunities such as XDefiant and Rainbow Six." The move is part of a larger, longer process Ubisoft has been undergoing in recent quarters to restructure its teams, cut costs, and concentrate its resources into fewer, bigger games.

Ubisoft offered the following statement on the cancellation:

"After careful consideration, we have made the tough call to halt development on Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland, effective immediately. Our priority now is to support the talented team members at our Red Storm Entertainment studio, who will be transitioning to new projects within our company, including XDefiant and Rainbow Six.
The Division Heartland was first announced back in 2021, and was being developed by North Carolina-based Red Storm Entertainment. It was quietly delayed not long after its reveal with its planned release moving to last fiscal year, but it never materialized. Heartland did go through multiple testing phases, and was in a publicly playable state. Recently, it received a rating in Taiwan, leading fans to believe its release was imminent, but this seems to have been a false alarm."

Ubisoft has been on a game-cancelling spree of late, having shut down three unannounced games including its mysterious Project Q, as well as Immortals Fenyx Rising 2 just last year. The prior year, Ubisoft cancelled four other unannounced games, with the company explaining its decision by saying it had been trying to make too many games at once.

And in the last year in particular, Ubisoft (like many other major gaming companies) has been undergoing major cost-cutting measures, which have included the aforementioned game cancellations, studio closures, and multiple rounds of layoffs. As noted in Ubisoft's earnings release, it has reduced its employee numbers by over 1,700 people over 18 months "while retention has continued to improve." As of March 2024, Ubisoft employs 19,011 employees globally.

In today's earnings call, CEO Yves Guillemot told investors the company was "back on track" for a "profitable growth trajectory," noting the company's record annual and quarterly net bookings reported today. Going forward, Guillemot continued, the company will pursue a strategy of returning to leadership in open world adventure games while expanding its games-as-a-service offerings. This year, the company expects to release Assassin's Creed Shadows (just fully revealed today), Rainbow Six Mobile, Star Wars Outlaws, The Division Resurgence, and XDefiant.

And technologically, Ubisoft is narrowing its focus on its own internal game engines to just two branches, Anvil and Snowdrop, and is aggressively pursuing generative AI tech especially with its NEO NPC program.

For the full year, Ubisoft reported €2.3 billion ($2.5 billion) in net bookings, and €401 million ($436 million) in operating income.

Via: IGN

P.S: I think the bigger opportunities they are talking about are The Division 3 + DLCs.

 

[Box]

Ubisoft is collapsing before our eyes, which means we may never get a new 3D Rayman

 

[Zzero]

Right to the line, but not over it. Sad since I thought that this one actually had a shot, but if they, themselves, did not think so then it was probably for the best.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

Ubisoft is collapsing before our eyes, which means we may never get a new 3D Rayman

Not seeing a 3D Rayman is probably not on the top 20 general concerns about Ubisoft going down.

 

[Syndr0mePK]

Ubisoft is collapsing before our eyes, which means we may never get a new 3D Rayman

I might be the only one more worried about not seeing The Division 3. lol

 

[ToTTenTranz]

A F2P game was cancelled, so nothing of value was lot.