Ubisoft KILLED Another BIG Game (Division Heartland is DEAD)
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2024
- The project cancellations at Ubisoft are becoming more and more frequent. What do you think is going on?
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I believe Ubisoft is setting themselves up to hyper-focus on their most successful IPs and not getting distracted by bullshit side projects. What do you think?
Yep i think that they’re not interested in making little side projects like this game, still fucking bullshit, hopefully Division 3 is a banger
I think they're just all high on coke and a generation of successful anti-consumer business practices. But mostly coke.
Be well fry, prayers for your family!
Probably so but we all know division 3 will be a big important IP
Side Projects? Grey Zone sells 400,000 as a PVEVP mil sim in EARLY ACCESS.
Red Storm literally emailed me about this 2 weeks ago and I was pretty hyped about another testing session. And then to not get the follow-up only to find out why a day later... bruh... the fact that DMZ was cancelled... Heartland was this star over the horizon that we were waiting to sparkle that UBISOFT PROMISED in their last showcase. 12 months later they look like idiots that can't deliver.
Ubisoft doesn’t deserve to own any of the Tom Clancy franchises
I need a splinter cell remaster
@@nwordjoe9356as long as it’s not from Ubisoft sure
ubisoft doesnt deserve to own any franchises
it's crazy cuz I love how ubisoft build worlds even nowadays. They're detailed, immersive, full of life etc... but the gameplay loops and money hungry practictices that comes with it is just terrible and is slowly killing the studio. I know the glory days wont come back but I truely hope they put more care into their games and gives a more freedom to the incredibly talented devs and artists they have
True, they completely butchered from what Tom Clancy once was..
These clowns have canceled 2 Division related games instead of just creating Division 3.... Fire management, not developers and creators
Heartland was a stand a lone Dark Zone where people couldn't camp the doorway and better monetization.
Technically, they never finished either of the first two games.
Nah, I played this during testing and it was shite
@daviddesrosiers1946 umm if you considered 2 not finished you definitely brain dead
@@mattg.291complete shit man, I’m glad it’s cancelled.. now they can focus on Div3
Just wait until The Division 3 has a DLC called Heartland.
There aint ever gonna be no Division 3 lol
@@BasedGrimaceUbisoft is dumb but not dumb enough to not make a division 3
Good call
@Fargus-ut3kt if Ubisoft Assassin's Creed and Xdefiant doesn't profit you better believe div 3 will be a delay like skull and bones or canceled
@BasedGrimace you should stop assuming you know what your talking about, when you clearly don't. Ubi has already said they are making Div 3 when Outlaws releases and wraps up, the lead director who made Div 1&2 is being put on the project. Get your facts right before spouting nonsense
Take note how none of the mobile games ubisoft has in the works have been cancelled. Also some devs who "reportedly" worked on the division heartland said we didn't miss much and that heartland basically had nothing to do with the division at this point.
I don’t doubt it, I love the division because it’s grounded in reality, all the weapons and tech you use are either real or in development. The division 2 definitely pushed the envelope with that bleeding edge tech. Won’t be surprised if they go overboard with 3, with flying cars and laser guns. I’m hoping not but from what I hear that’s where heartland was headed.
@@Prosperous.Intuition now i wanna see flying cars in the 3rd because it would be one hell of a leap to go from no working cars to flying cars and id get a few chuckles from it
It's easy to take in money on mobile in comparison due to cheaper hardware so I can see why they are trying this.
@@vegitoblue2187 It's not due to cheaper hardware, the mobile market (especially in China) just prints gobs of money. A mobile game could have a 200 million dollar budget and still make a profit if it released in China.
@@Seoul_Soldier India has more mobil phones than pcs and consoles. Pubg, Supercell have also catered to these audiences.
There's no way spending millions to produce a game and then canceling it before it reaches a private or public beta phase is a sustainable business model
They’ll just make some shitty asset flip and scam people out of millions.
Not a big deal.
Corpos like this can write off the cost of a failed project on taxes. Hollywood does it all the time
When you're competing against yourself you're already missing the point
It had private playtests and it wasn't good according to the people who have spoken up about it.
They probably will get 50 times the money they put into the development through their absurd pricing of the newest assassins creed game
Vanguard owns 2.2 million shares in Ubisoft (majority shareholder). There is currently no future where Ubisoft gets better. They do not make games for passion of the art, they make games to maximize and protect the assets of their investors.
Here is what we can reasonably expect from Ubisoft in the near future (~7-10 years):
1.) Zero innovation
2.) Chasing trends
3.) DEI shoved down your throat
4.) Predatory monetization
Ubisoft does not see us as valued customers that they want to provide a unique experience to. They see us as bundles of cash and their goal is to extract as much cash from us as possible.
Damn you nailed it. This is it
As a big division fan this kinda sucks but I'd rather wait for 3 anyway.
I’m a huge fan too but I’m not going to get my hopes up until it actually comes out
Heartland was garbage anyway. Played the closed alpha and I’m glad it was cancelled. It was so trash. Basically the division during the day, then at night agents can go rogue and attack other agents . Was a snoozefest and never knew who was friendly or enemy
Hopefully they can repurpose a lot of this work and implement it into div 3 and make it a more fleshed out experience
you werent gonna miss much the game was horrible
This was your 3, highly doubt we'll get any division content for years all over again
I was expecting that since they announced Division 3... there was no point for it.
I too, shall smoke that copium and wait for D3.
Same, I keep hoping it takes place on the west coast.
Not playing any more div games till they fix Div 2. Dark zone was infested with Cheaters back during TU 11
Division is mostly a pve game
Red Storm are the OGs of the Tom Clancy Franchises, seeing em burnt like this is disheartening. Why would anyone these days want to make the next AAA Blockbuster when full studios are constantly being left to the wolves?
They don't. That's why the actual talent in big studios either left the industry entirely or started their own companies.
The gaming industry is in a really shitty state bruh 🤦♂️
just ubi
@@predgaming42069just ubi? What rock have you been living under???
@@mightquinnable none, alot of studios are cooking some good stuff and some good stuff came out recently. ubi just had failure after failure. and this video is mostly about ubi.
@@predgaming42069 yeah just Ubi... Bethesda and Squarenix are going strong... wanna talk about blizzard and rocksteady?
@mightquinnable ea and microsoft are canceling studios and implementing anti consumer practises such as ads in games and everything. You are not buying a product but they are looking forward to make it as service. Triple A is bad state and needs to be crashed. Don't forget the helldivers debacle
Can we swap XDefiant out for Heartland?
Asking for a friend…
No.
I'm amazed XDefiant had the test last year, and even more amazed it's finally coming out.
🤣
As a Division fan, no. It'll only hurt the franchise. Just wait for the third mainline game and be glad we're still getting content for The Division 2 in the meantime.
No. XDefiant is not everyone's cup of tea but at least it's a new IP. Heartland would have just ruined The Division.
you seriously dont want it, it was really really bad
I actually got invited to the Heartlands tests but never bothered because I wasn't interested in what looked like mobile F2P Division. I'm a big fan of many of the IPs in Ubisoft's wheelhouse to the point where I still defend some of their more middling entries (like Breakpoint, which I maintain sucked ass at launch but after the Ghost Update actually became pretty goddamn awesome) and even I didn't want them wasting time and effort on little side-projects like Heartlands.
Ubisoft's big hitters - especially the Tom Clancy games - just are not suited for the F2P and middle-ware treatment. They only really work when they get the big AAA treatment because that is what the scope and nature of their universes demands.
I really hope The Division 3 is good though; I personally hold that both Division games are actually really great and probably the best versions of their genre/style game, beating even Destiny, Borderlands, Warframe etc.
EDIT: I played in both a Closed Test and the Open Test for XDefiant - its gonna flop. It looks and sounds like a mobile game, the gunplay is NOT amazing at all (it absolutely cannot compete with CoD, Battlefield or even other Ubi shooters) and their main selling point of "No SBMM" is gonna backfire REAL fast when players learn exactly what they means through experience.
XDEFIANT looks and sounds like a mobile game? Have you ever played a mobile game lol. I have been testing XDEFIANT for 2 years now and the game has only gotten better and more polished over time.
I could not disagree more with your takes. Its like you have never played a video game before lmao.
@mastersparkles1584 While I do like the game, I have to also agree. The weapons definitely don't feel as Clean. Personally for me they feel more like Mobile Game Weapons than actual PC FPS Weapons
The guys at Red Storm were really responsive to feedback when I got to play an alpha build of the darkzone. It felt like the devs actually cared about the PVP function of the game that actually felt pretty good and still holds up.
Red Storm best pvp work was GH Recon Future Soldier and Graw2. Followed by Div 1 darkzone, survival, and last stand mode
The biggest problem with Ubisoft isn't even the fact that they prioritized bullshit, it was they demonstrated ABSOLUTELY no understanding of what the market even wanted in regards to bullshit. They just made projects seemingly on a whim and prayed an audience would form around the creation of something they didn't know they'd want.
For starters, The Division was one of (if not literally) the first instance of an extraction shooter being developed in a mainstream game. Instead of capitalizing off that and bringing survival/DZ to a more accessible format, we got Heartland which tried to do so many things that even TD fans weren't asking for.
Even the ghost recon game that got for hated could have pulled a complete 180 had one person said embrace the series roots and make grey zone warfare instead of just another BR. Ubi has so much potential if they actually invested in their niches instead of trying to find another golden goose because they're tired of taking care of their current ones.
Man every time I hear about Ubisoft news its just not good..
My first FPS was Rainbow 6 on the computer. I had no idea what it was about. I got a few friends in during the Rogue Spear days, and we were pretty high ranked. That was one of the best video games of all time.
I honestly just wish they'd do a single player, and take it back to where the game was actually good.
Combine division heartland and division 3 to make an AAAAA game
Just go full Sextuple-A
These game companies try to be Coke, Sprite, Root Beer, and Dr. Pepper all at the same time. Nobody wants to drink that shit. Find what you do good, and do it great.
I did a focus group for this game like 4 years ago when it was first being made, and even though the trailer was rudimentary I could tell no one would play it
I feel like the issue is the games feel like so devoid of charm or personality. Ubisoft feels like a corporation making art instead of artists making art.
Like they reached a point where the games cant really ever be anything too exciting or someone will get fired.
"wooh look at us! Another game! Please buy us we really tried and need the money"
Not much enthusiasm in their products.
And why did it feel like the assassin's creed games started to more become a commentary on the work culture at ubisoft in general? Why would they make games about you just being a drone at a company who just plays the games just so they can sell them?
Noooooooo, I'm very upset and been waiting for this for a while. WHY
What surprises me is that The Division never got a stand alone Battle Royale mode. The Survival DLC with the titular mode was really the first Battle Royale I think we saw in the gaming space, and the atmosphere and objective for it was done so well. Your helo crashes trying to look for a lead on anti-virals against the Green Poison, injuring you via a cut which gets infected via sepsis. You have to then scavenge through out the night through a very bad blizzard while trying to make your way to the Dark Zone to extract with loot and survive, using resources to make abilities that you usually just had access to in the game like the healing box, launcher, turret, etc. and/or armor, weapons, medicine to extend your lifespan. It had a PVE version with no combat against players, and a version with PvP combat added. If they had made this a F2P title as an expanded experience they'd have a big hit right about now.
I only played survival in PvE, but the immersion was still great. I liked The Divison 2 a lot too but the Winter setting and snowstorms and such in Div1, even more so in the survival mode - that was really awesome.
@@Lenariet the blizzard was definitely the pinnacle of the atmosphere in The Division. My hope is that The Division 3 will be located somewhere that can have multiple weather changes (ie north end of North America) so that when they start doing seasonal content, it’s also changing the weather in game based on what season it actually is.
I played this while under nda over a year ago and it was not much to write home about. The devs had no idea if they wanted an actual extraction shooter or another division game and their management was/is totally clueless.
my question is , how fucking hard is for them just to ask people what kind of game they want, what franchise to continue? is it really that hard?
Even then they wouldn't listen.
I also played the Open Beta, and it was very good, but due to my job had to quit playing it, it had good potential don't know why Ubisoft cancelled it.
Red Storm need to do a single player with A.I or co-op, campaign based Rainbow Six game
It doesn't surprise me since they announced the Division 3 sometime last year while Heartland was still in developement. That always sounded fishy to me and well, now we see.
Was it? I don't remember hearing anywhere that The Division 3 got announced
Hope all is good your way. I was just thinking that I hadn’t seen a video from you in a bit. Glad you’re back.
Would love to see a new RB6 Vegas that game was a lot of fun back in the day.
WAS THE BEST FPS EVER MADE.....
I hope we see a return to a more fleshed out Farcry with multiplayer and the map editor. It was such a solid package. So much potential for it to be amazing.
I was really, really looking forward to this game. Fuck You be Ubisoft 😢
it was really boring. trust me, you didn't miss much.
I remember the days I use to get excited about a Red Stormed developed Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon back in the day. And When Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Paris did a Splinter Cell Game. Not anymore.
Hope everything is okay with your family emergency, always glad to see another bigfry video uploaded🔥
... Shock? This is the most expected cancellation I've ever seen. Honestly thought they would scrap this when they scrapped the Ghost Recon BR.
i have a co-worker who was an alpha and beta tester for heartland. he said the experience was pretty boring and bland with not much going for it. he said in the alpha there were like 5 missions to do all in the one city location and in the beta it doubled to 10 missions but again it was all focused in the one city. his exact words were "you go to the hub, buy ammo and anything you'll need for the mission you're going to go on, go out to the city and pick up as many boxes or whatever you could, call for extraction, return to the hub, sell what you got and repeat the process all over again." he said it was a very boring grind fest experience and that it was honestly for the best that they canceled heartland because the overall feeling was dull and lackluster for everything you were doing or lack thereof. his idea is that they are going to focus more on the division 2 with either more updates and content releases, or they are pushing all of their resources to other games like the new assassins creed game and potentially other large scale IP's. i don't know personally but he has been a alpha/beta tester for Ubisoft for YEARS now and said this was not a surprise for anyone in the community who was involved with testing.
Well as unfortunate as the situation is for Heartland overall, n the devs working towards Xdefiant & such, if more energy & effort on games like Division 3 & AC Shadows as their biggest brands to make them better, so be it
Wonder what happen with division resurgence last time i heard they have level infinite or something to help them release the game on Asia... But after that barely any news.. Guess it's going to be quietly killed on the background too
NOOOOOOO! WTF! It seemed like they came far with it! A lot of work to get killed of!
I was actually looking forward to Heartland, somehow having missing it's free-to-play so I was ready to pay for it.Their loss.
Damn that’s so sad, would of been a hit. Still no triple a extraction shooter
The only reason Skull and Bones was not cancelled is that they received large subsidies from the Singapore government. They couldn't just tell the government, "Tough luck."
Honestly this might be for the better. It being free to play and Ubisoft is a duo that doenst mix very well at all, though it’s a shame we were led on for so long thinking it was gonna come
Plus Ubisoft needs to stop making 100 different things, and focus on the main big things that people want
They FEATURED Heartland last year on their Games Preview
Honestly:
Ubisoft and Free 2 Play mix very well considering the mtx stores they got going, I can't shake the thought that they kinda want to make their games free 2 play (especially with how quickly sales come at this point) but at the same time don't want to do it because they precisely know that the pre-order money they get in addition to the mtx is a nice extra profit.
Got into a test for this game. Honestly it was so bland that I think this was a good move, Ubisoft has other things to focus on and this was just gonna be yet another live service game they were gonna have to support
As a Division 2 player, honestly not surprised or disappointed in Heartland being killed. If those assets can go to Division 3, or even into Division 2 as new DLC, then yay. But yeah, with Div3 being announced, Heartland was pointless.
This game’s development outlived the entire extraction shooter genre
What? There is like 5 major extraction shooters being worked on. Arena Breakout Infinite is having a extremely successful beta right now.
@@mastersparkles1584 its still a very niche genre
@@mastersparkles1584 Successful betas don't always equal a successful game. Nobody cares about Extraction shooters anymore, and will care even less when Marathon comes out. Especially since Tarkov recently shit the bed.
@mastersparkles1584 still small for console. The Day Before canceled for consoles but DOA for Pc and now Heartland canceled. All I have left is exoborne, off the grid, and arc raiders
I played the closed beta with friends months ago and had a lot of fun. Was looking forward to this game
(unconfirmed but...) Heartland was done and ready for shipment...considering the game wouldn't have needed as much red tape to get through for it to drop on Ubisoft's own launcher, Ubisoft Connect, Heartland could have been released there at nearly any time in the very near future and it also only really needed to pass the certification of PS, XB and Steam to be able to be released on those platforms; which as long as the game was in a healthy, playable state (which recent Beta testers attest it was), the mentioned platforms surely would have given certification happily.
Also, it was expected for a specific release date to be announced at Ubisoft Forward as well to finally be released late Summer/early Fall 2024. As for Rainbow 6...the Rainbow 6 mentioned in association with Red Storm's, Heartland's team, displacement is the upcoming Rainbow 6 *Mobile* game; not the established Rainbow 6 Siege. Ubi killed Heartland to transfer investments and Red Storm's highly creative talents to xDefiant and R6Mobile in an attempt to compete with CoD and other big name e-sport games. If you notice, Heartland was still on track for release...until xDefiant initially did very well on Steam & YT with it's mock tournament literally the day before the earnings report released (which could have been edited that very morning after the xDefiant tournament before releasing).
As for The Division 3: Red Storm and other resources from other studios of Heartland are not (at least at this time) being diverted to TD3 - which probably isn't even actually in solid development (it maybe be in very early development like site scouting and/or whiteboard conceptualizing but not full studio development yet) until the release of Star Wars Outlaws because The Division 3's Executive Producer, Julian Gerighty, remains Outlaws' Creative Director until Outlaws releases later this year.
As for Heartland... The community, as a whole, over multiple medias (Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook, Reddit, ect) have been vocally expressing their heartbreak and frustration at the game's apparent demise to the point that, at least, 2 community members had (unbeknown to each other at first) began petitions on Change*org in an attempt to convince Ubisoft to reconsider it's choice. One petition is currently sitting at 201 signatures and the other at 261 signatures - for a current total of 462 autographs in support for Heartland. In the petitions' comments, many individuals even stating plainly that, should Ubisoft be so inclined, they would happily pay a respectable price for the game over it's previously announced "free-to-play" status if it would reignite investor interest and see the game's release come to fruition.
If you and your community would willing to aid The Division community in this quest, I won't be brash and disrespectful by posting the links here without permission but I'll be very happy to provide links to each petition that you could then pass along to your YT community.
(Sorry for the lengthy post. But, thank you for your time and for making this video in support of Heartland)
Can honestly say I’m not surprised by this. Heartland was always going to be an afterthought. This honestly makes me worried for the future of The Division as a whole. If Resurgence goes next, it’ll be a long time before we see another Division game again. This is truly a sad day for Division agents all over.
I think they did that because of Once Human, both are so similar and Once human is awesome and it's already in Closed Beta
I honestly want Ubisoft to bring Rainbow Six back to the Vegas style games. I want to complete terrorist hunt with friends unlocking guns through rank ups. Miss those times.
After hearing this I tried to get back into division 2 but the bullet sponge enemies reminded me why I barely kept up with this game.
The Japanese can't even have Samurai to themselves.
Atp, all i care abt from Ubisoft is the next Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell remake. I played this game when it was still in its "put random code and trademarks all over the screen" phase. It was literally just the division with less fleshed out mechanics. I thought Ubi was gonna make it a destiny "anyone can access this" type of game. With all that being said, another f2p br type game being canceled? I literally couldn't be less shocked if I pretended.
After Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint, I don't want another Ghost Recon from modern Ubisoft. Maybe I would if someone with brains were developing it.
@@Seoul_Soldier well unless Ubi gives up exclusivity rights for the TC franchises then you're better off wishing on a star. I wish Rockstar could take a crack at GR since they're si good with Red dead but until then oh well
@@ethanesslinger9805 Rockstar doesn't even make games for their own franchises, forget others. Midnight club. Manhunt, Bully, Smugglers Run, Max Payne, LA Noire etc are all forgotten. Rockstar is the most obnoxious company out rn.
@@Seoul_Soldier Wildlands and Breakpoint are the best shape Ghost Recon has ever been in honestly.
Which already tells enough considering that both of them all the time feel like they could've done so much better with everything that's already in place but not really used.
@@Unknown_Genius Wildlands to this day is a glitchy broken mess, and seriously? Breakpoint? Yeah, no.
Hope all gets better for you and for family BigFry. As always love the content but we gotta take care of the actual homeland before we can get into the games. Take care man! See ya on the next one
If it wouldn't be too much of a technical hurdle they could take heartland and turn it into an extra mode for the main game kinda like the survival mode for the the first game. Survival still holds up well today and i'm honestly shocked ubisoft didn't spin that off into its own thing or expand on it once the extraction shooter craze kicked off.
Hope all is well with you and the family fry
Bro have you seen the microtransactions & battlepass in XDEFIANT???? The prices are mad crazy literally zero effort they want to sell us guns painted blue green and red. And the bundles costing nearly a whole game itself. Its ridiculous
Hope you are doing ok Big Fry! Take all the time you need with your family.
i just hope 3 makes it aingle player not just online only
man feels sorry for all game developers, its a rough start, games are getting canceled, studies getting shutdown, my heart go out to all developers, they are the ones that get the rough end of the deck.
They try to bite off more than they can chew but also feels like they are trying to focus on games they can monetize the crap out of
Swear to god, they’re absolute buffoons. Bring out “X” instead of Division stuff.
All I’d like is for them to take the Survival mode from The Division and flesh it to a full game - the elements are there! Food, drink, antibiotics, clothes, illnesses, weapons, gadgets and abilities, just make it permanent and make it so we can have big crews and can build shit, it’s not gonna be that tough to do considering 3/4 of the game is already built
I knew it lol. Said it was a dumb ass idea from the jump. Instead of focusing on Division 2 100%, which i'm pretty sure is still plagued with disconnection issues, or honoring their promise to support Division 1 for TEN years . . . they chase after bullsht.
As a GR fan I think that was a good decision to cancel front lines as it was going to be just another run of the mill BR game. I can already seeing the game being dead.
I love The Division . And when I heard about free to play spinn of I was worried about the future . I couldn't be more happy to hear they have canceled this project . Waiting for proper The Division 3 .
I saw this coming for a while now. Very sad 😢
If i saw a new Rainbow 6 with the Tom Clancy taste on it, id die a happy fella.
well... what precisely is the Tom Clancy taste on it tho?
Like the original titles or like the CoD copy Vegas titles? Opinions on that shift heavily at this point
@@Unknown_Genius vegas 1 and 2 are the best. Been playing R6 since OG on msn zone from back in the day. Imho Patriots should have been a game. Nitty, gritty, controversial is what i wanna see.
@@TruGamer4Realz I really disliked vegas, wasn't a R6 game anymore imo - but not being the franchise anymore was what ultimately made it big, ironically enough that trend chasing they did for vegas (and other games of that era like Ghost Recon Future Soldier etc.) is what ultimately canceled patriots in favor of a more CS styled pvp game.
The only bigger irony would be that at this point they loose so much money with trend chasing that they may as well go back to the roots entirely with the full late 90s/early 2000s tech and be more successful with it.
@@Unknown_Genius i just want no more rainbows and charms. Games will never be the same again.
@@TruGamer4Realz customization will be in any game either way, if they release an actual single player/coop game again we both already know that they'll be selling skins from their old franchises, weapons probably have to be bought for ingame currency and ingame currency will be purchasable with real money as well.
It's insane to think that we got the technology to create all those details and it's mainly being used to print extra money from already existing assets of their other franchises at a way too high price somehow.
For Ubisoft, that’s not to say all these other companies need to ignore the off brand stuff .
im not holing my breath during ubi forwad on June 10
This was the one Ubisoft project I was excited for... I thought it was a cool idea and was more than willing to playtest it for them. seeing that Watch Dogs also got killed just hurts me. at this point the only thing left is the Splinter Cell remake
Im gonna be honest I participated in one of the closed test and can say that the idea had potential but from the gameplay that was there in the game it wasn't heading into a direction that wouldn't help the franchise thrive. The closed test gave me a similar feeling to Watch Dogs legion which was just "Yea its a division game" now don't get it wrong they had good systems implemented but couldn't capitalize in a way to make it interesting and rather it was just another obstacle, most enemies we've already seen in another form so there was nothing special. Sucks to see hard work canceled but the game wouldn't have been good for their already falling business
I'm not excited or have any trust in the Splinter Cell remake, what made Ironside soo great as Sam Fisher is that he had a sophisticated sense of dry humour and knew how to intertwine human emotion with upright professionalism.
Ubisoft along with the Triple-A industry have no grasp on such things, the closest they got is making Sam being as bland as cardboard oatmeal in Blacklist and this super-forced melodrama half-way through the game of how "the mission always comes first", compare that to the drama of how Sam begrudgingly (and optionally) kills Dahlia Tal, or one of he's many enemy interrogations.
It's not just them its also a lot of publishers such as battlefield. they know what the gamers want and do something completely opposite. They have to remember what made them and these franchises so popular and go back to that.
I played the test and it seemed like a pretty decent game. Sad to see it go. I was really excited to see what theyve improved and changed from the beta, but sadly never gonna see that.
LOL Redstorm. Yeah, I remember their Harry Potter-esqe guns and especially their crap mods. Like a pistol optic that reduced accuracy. Or, my personal favorite, magazines with stronger springs that increased weapon damage because, that's how guns work.
Exactly! They dragged Skull and Bones over the finish line but dropped Heartland
I completely forgot this was a thing.
I still am shitty about this cancellation cause this has been the only division game many of us have been excited for in years. But watching your video made it make more sense on why they did it. They better have all hands on deck for Division 3 then.
The last thing I remember happening plotwise in the assassin's creed series was that you the player are just playing as a guy at Abstergo doing your job to test games so they can sell them to the masses
Talk about late stage capitalism.
I'd love if they brought back Splinter Cell and old school Rainbow 6 even if it has a Siege style game mode on the side. I love Ghost Recon, but was never a fan of the multiplayer mode.
Should have just kept expanding on division 1. Great story, amazing setting, decent gameplay, dark zone felt pretty good. Expand it to Central Park and beyond over the years. Would have been pretty sweet 🤷🏻♂️
Not necessarily. Would have been same-y dripfeed content people would have rushed through. Proper sequels every once in a while do make sense, they allow the devs to actually do some genuinely new stuff without having to carry too much old baggage around. And honestly there was something eerie about Central Park not being explorable. The adjacent areas were littered with countless body bags. If I remember right in the Dark Zones even? Me imagining those to be the worst for people in a lore-sense but then seeing slight glimpses of the horror that Central Park according to lore snippets must have been, turned into the most massive of mass graves... there was something powerful about that without it being shown outright. It genuinely scared me.
This is what i said YEARS ago. They had JUST gotten Division 1 to a really good state post Piers update and they ditched it for 2. Which has half the atmosphere and personality of the original. The fkin blizzards were HALF the games identity lol, and they thought switching over to summer in DC was a good idea?
Survival was amazing, and they let it rot, everyone told them you have something SPECIAL here, improve upon it, make it a bigger part of the game. . . but nope.
@@Lenariet Nah, they were picking up momentum and then they just stopped. Plus they promised us 10 years of content and support. They talk out of their booty holes.
@@EQOAnostalgia same, absolutely wasted the opportunity that they themselves created 🤷🏻♂️
Noooo, I was looking forward to this one. It still needed some work but I felt like it had promise.
My issue with Ubisoft is once you've played 1 game you've kinda played them all? Their games kinda devolve into open world tick box exercises. Far Cry is a massive offender of this imo.
pretty much.
their main issue is that each of them got their own mechanics, but either the devs didn't have time to build the game around them, didn't really have any ideas what to do or had been scared that anything more is too complex for the average user and that it'd hurt sales and ultimately cost them their job.
So much potential and yet so often seeing what they could've done and didn't do, weirdest part is if you see a lot of the stuff being in place and yet it's never really utilized, like e.g. foliage giving extremely good concealment in ghost recon breakpoint, the AI just is so dumbed down that there's no use for it at all. Which really hurts with ghost recon as it's in its best state it has ever been it but yet most of the time you just wander around wondering what could've been.
I'm really disappointed that they canceled The Division Heartland, I was so excited to finally try it out this year T-T
Shock announcement?
Nothing shocking about it SADLY.
Absolutely expected it.
Not surprised tbh... but this one makes me really sad.
A Division extraction shooter would've been great.
But they missed their perfect moment anyways.
I just hope we get a solid Division 3!
Brother I felt you soo much on those last 3 or 4 minutes, you preached from my soul about how I feel about Ubisoft
I am deeply disappointed that we don't get another free to play looter-shooter. This would have been a really unique and special experience and now its gone...
Well, it's no secret that Ubisoft can fuck up a wet dream, given their track record...
Depends on who reading the new. As for me, an AC fan as well as Ubisoft gamer in general, i do think cancel the game is a good move. I don't think this free extraction shooter would be as success as the suits would want. I rather them double down on assassin creed, far cry and r6
Heartland wasn't too much different from the dark zone if anything it was kind of annoying, but the game did run extremely well which makes me excited for the next division game.
Hi wholeheartedly believe they do not care about the future of these games. They are constantly canceling stuff and they have done nothing to show any of us that they won't do the same thing in the future.
I expected this when it went radio silent for months. What a shame.
Kinda sad about this. Was excited to see this game. Been playing the division series since the pre releases for the first game
R6 is coming up on 10 years old and is still their most played game. They've gotta be working on a successor. I hope. Even just a remaster.
"Drag that corpse to the finish line". That's how finishing ubisoft games feels like when they get over 10 hours of gameplay...
The division is the perfect IP for a proper survival or hardcore/permadeath style game. Wish we got more
Wonder if we'll see Far Cry 7 at Ubisoft Forward..
As for R6..maybe they are going back to the Vegas-style of those games(singleplayer storyline)
I honestly hope they go back to the routes with it.
But ye, it's most likely going to be vegas styled, turning their games into CoD copy cats made them as huge as they are now.
X defiant was really fun when I played it. I think it will do pretty well
I wish Ubisoft would sell the Tom Clancy ip to another company and fuck off