What happens to The Division Part 1 when Ubisoft releases The Division 2 next year? Here, developer Massive gives fans of the first part a little hope.
With The Division 2, Ubisoft wants to continue the story and move the setting from New York to Washington. Many fans are already looking forward to The Division 2, but they are also wondering what will happen to the predecessor.
The Division 1 and 2 could run in parallel
Fans fear the end of The Division: When a successor to an online game is released, it is often assumed that the predecessor will be discontinued. Because usually the games cannibalize each other.
The successor attracts players with better graphics, new gameplay, more features, and a continuation of the story. They then leave the predecessor, which eventually has so few players that it is no longer worthwhile for the developer to maintain the servers.
Or at least support for Part 1 will be discontinued – like with Destiny 1.
The Division doesn’t necessarily have to be discontinued: Ubisoft has now responded to this issue.
David Polfeldt, Managing Director at Massive Entertainment, explains that he is very curious to see how The Division runs when the successor is released on March 15, 2019. “I think that The Division 1 should continue and Part 2 represents an alternative path for players. I don’t know what will happen, but we are very open to this thought.”
Ubisoft wants Massive to continue supporting The Division 1: Ubisoft, the publisher of the game, states that the successor does not have to mean the end of The Division. Massive will continue to support the game in the long term. It seems that The Division 1 and 2 will coexist for at least a certain amount of time.
Fans do not need to fear that the servers of the predecessor will be shut down immediately upon the release of The Division 2.
However, it can be doubted whether substantial patches and updates for The Division 1 will actually appear.
