During the 2018 Invitational Finals event, Ubisoft shared some new information about Rainbow Six: Siege. According to the French company, there aren’t any plans right now for a sequel to its multiplayer tactical shooter.
Ubisoft claimed that Rainbow Six: Siege has 27 million total players (though this number may include and those players who registered during the free weekends) and its active player-count is still growing.
Ubisoft will be making some adjustments to the game’s Standard Edition. Players will start with all 20 legacy (original) operators unlocked, it will increase its number of free operators from 4 to 6 and in the future, all weapon attachments will be free and unlocked from the go.
Last but not least, the team will renovate and rebalance some maps. The map “Yacht” is coming back to casual and the Map “Hereford” will be the first map to be reworked. Also, Bomb-mode will be the focus for map design.
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Ubisoft CEO: Well, we’ve got a successful game here. Let’s not make a successful sequel.
Ubisoft Board of Directors: You’re a genius sir. A real genius.
Off topic. I just read a news article where the Governor of Kentucky said that guns aren’t to blame for school shootings but video games are. The latest school shooting was using an AR15 which has no hunting purpose or any purpose at all other than killing people very quickly and a lot of them. But video games are to blame not access to Daddy’s AR15.
Amazing stupidity in this country when it comes to guns and protecting citizens rights to buy guns and what otherwise intelligent people blame on video games.
why churn out yet another sequel when you can continue to support a game? I’d much rather have this “live service” then a rushed seqeul with new growing pains and a padora’s box of new things to go wrong. There is a reason CSGO, DOTA2, and LOL are so freaking huge, the communites have time to grow.
It’s basically a full on GaaS brand at this point. Ubi will be turning more of their upcoming games into something like Siege.
Makes sense not to be in any rush for a sequel when you have a potential cs:go alternative on their hands.
Never bought this because no single player and doesn’t look like i will be getting one anytime soon.
There actually is a single player mini campaigns. Just not a fleshed out story mode that you would expect from a COD or BF series.
Haha yea it does feel that way for more experienced gamers.
I don’t see why they would develop a sequel. R6S is very popular right now and the way they do things, imo is very good right now. Every year gets new ops and maps that everybody can use/play and no divided player base. I could see them going on like that for another 3-4 years. If only they’d upgrade the sound engine. It needs true surround.. That’s the only thing i think it needs right now.
Well, it would take 2 or 3 years to complete a sequel game anyway. As many Assassin’s Creed games as Ubisoft churns out and people still buy them so why not a sequel to this game since it’s so popular.
Because the man power and money needed for a proper sequel (new engine etc etc) would only mean 60$/game in 3 years while right now they charge us 25$ every year (season pass) and this doesn’t use much people compared to the former. Upgrading the current game with new ops/maps/modes or whatever they want to add will be more financially advantageous than “churning” out a new R6.
Makes sense. I haven’t been following this game and didn’t realize that they were making so much off of it. I just checked and there are about 40 DLCs for this game.
Honestly with Siege on the spotlight, Ubishit could put up a team of half a hundred people and make something akin to Rainbow Six 1-3 without wasting too much money and getting a decent profit out of it after only marketing it a little bit.
But hey, Zombies
Good. Remove this black mark upon the franchise and never speak of it again.
Then again, evey single R6 game except R6 and Rogue Spear, isn’t Rainbow Six.
Peekers advantage.
With the constant updates, this game really doesn’t need a sequel.
It also technically is in a bit of a middleground genre and has no real competitor that does exactly what they do.