Ubisoft has announced the cancelation of its free-to-play multiplayer survival-action shooter, The Division Heartland. The team responsible for it, Red Storm Entertainment, will now work on XDefiant and Rainbow Six.
As Ubisoft publically stated:
“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.”
Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland was a free-to-play multiplayer survival-action shooter set in a fictional rural community in Middle America. In this game, you’d play as a trained Division agent from across the nation and answer the distress call to uncover the ever-evolving mysteries of a rural community in mid-crisis.
To be honest, I’m not surprised by its cancelation. To put it simply, this was a game that nobody asked for. The Division fans are more interested in a new entry in the series than a F2P spin-off.
Not only that, but it appeared to be in development hell. Ubisoft shared the game’s first gameplay trailer in September 2022. That trailer looked rough, and it certainly did not catch the attention of most gamers. Since then, Ubi hadn’t revealed anything at all about it. So, the writing was on the wall.
Speaking of Ubisoft games, the French company will soon launch XDefiant. XDefiant is a free-to-play, fast-paced arena shooter. The game promises to combine intense gunplay with personalized loadouts and specialized factions, as teams of gunfighters – called Defiants – battle for domination.
Players will be able to personalize their Defiant to match their playstyle. Players can choose their faction, traits, abilities, and ultras. Additionally, they can select from an arsenal of primary and secondary weapons, attachments, and a device to complete their loadout. Furthermore, they can tweak their loadout on the fly to adapt to an ever-changing battlefield.
And that is that. The Division Heartland is no more and XDefiant may also flop. This is another F2P game that didn’t really impress me. So, I won’t be surprised if it shares the same fate with Hyper Scape (remember that?).
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I wish Ubisoft would cancel itself.
Don’t worry just a matter of time
Plenty of normies still buying their crap day 1.
That’s a bummer. I really enjoyed The Division games. I ended up playing the first one solo two weeks before the second game came out and had a blast. Went right into the second game and soloed it too, just treating it like a single player game and couldn’t have had a better time.
I just can’t fathom how this industry makes these games for several years, and then just go “You know what…. nevermind. Throw it away and delete it”. Like at least input the ability to make our own hosted servers, and then put it out as a tech demo or something. Even if you charged $0.99 for it, it could make some money back.
OH NO, that was my GOTY.
Anyway…
Oh no. Ubisoft has cancelled “Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland”, the multiplayer survival-boredom shooter?
Where will I go now, to get my fix when I need to be bored beyond belief?
Largely agree, it has some decent mechanics but the actual story and execution? Wet fart on a hot day.
Aaaaaaaand nothing of value was lost!
which is exactly what will be uttered at your funeral lol
You’re triggered so much, eh effeminate soylent sissy?
Hehehe https://media0.giphy.com/media/S3Ot3hZ5bcy8o/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
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It’s always Ubisoft vs People situation https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/39250ca37ebbf2995bb2137d6caab5b9c72dd94a15fce73b40515e2cfcba850f.gif
Not sure cancelled projects are actually the “failures” some gamers make them out to be.
I think big studios just have the means to do a lot of prototyping and learn from them. Kicking a project to the curb is likely less dramatic than it seem if you can just reassign these employees.
If cancelled development projects were as bas as many online dramaqueens make them out to be, Google should have gone bankrupt thousands times over by now, they basically cancel 99% of their projects.
definitely depressing, i was looking forward to heartland
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Oh no!
And it looked so promising…
Ikr?!
=(
I tried a closed beta for The Division Heartland, and it was an extraction shooter…
I like how these purges are going.
Sure is not like the manjaw industrial complex and insane clowns depravations will disappear, though the less mediums they have to push their BS the better.