The online shooter The Division 2 followed the current trend of service games and opted for a content strategy with free DLC. Apparently, this is now backfiring – the mood of the community is in the basement eight months after release: Updates come too rarely and bring too little, agents complain.
What is currently happening with Division 2? The loot shooter The Division 2 received the major Title Update 6 on October 15. Since then, it has been quiet around the service game.
The developers at Massive do ask for feedback from the community and provide information about their work on the current version of the game, but the most important topic remains underserved: new content.
Division 2 players are disappointed
What is the problem? 8 months after release, some players who are still active feel that the current state of The Division 2 is inadequate.
The free expansions do not reach the replay value of the paid DLC from The Division 1. This dampens the mood of the community.
No news in the info streams
What is the mood of the community? Some agents are not even angry anymore, but just dejected.
After the insipid “State of the Game” stream (SotG) on Wednesday, November 13, which went on for 2 weeks without new information, many want to know: What happens now?
Why do developers keep asking us how they should communicate with us? Give us a proper roadmap. Just give us something to look forward to. I understand that not every week can bring something new – but at least tell us what to expect in the next weeks/months. […]
LCTC on reddit (translated)
There is nothing to look forward to, that is the problem. No new content until Episode 3 next year and, according to dataminers, there will only be 2 missions again and, with a bit of luck, the raid. It’s a shame.
NOTr083r73h on reddit (translated)
Even “NOTr083r73h” is dissatisfied with the current situation and feels abandoned by the developers.
The postponement of the second raid is not entirely innocent.
Free DLC are inadequate
What is the problem? The Division 2 is indeed receiving new updates. But they are relatively rare, and what they offer is “only” new content, but no new modes.
The free DLC for this game is miserable, even for free expansions. Compared to the predecessor, these DLC cannot keep up, although we had to pay for them back then. I believe the strategy with free DLC was a big mistake that is now backfiring. Yesterday I wanted to grind Alps in the Pentagon and could not find anyone with matchmaking.
Very sad times.
MerlinMMX in the Ubisoft forum (translated)
For MerlinMMX, who is active in the Ubisoft forum, the free DLC is the root of the current evil.
How was it with Division 1? The first part stands better in direct comparison.
At the same time with the predecessor, so after about 8 months, the second paid DLC “Survival” was released, bringing a mode with high replay value:
- In The Division 1, “new” modes were introduced that were sometimes more or less popular among agents – but at least they were all designed for high replayability
- in The Division 2, updates continue the story, but these are actually only “new story” missions, so more of the same – without high replay value
Here lies the current problem for some agents. The content pipeline of Division 2 does not offer the replay value that the expansions of the first part provided.
So they expect us to play for 4 months without new content, no holiday events or special events, no new game modes that we want (Survival) and no new clothing events? The game lacks the incentive to continue playing. Even after TU6, you play, get new stuff, and have no reason to keep playing… Wake up, developers! Or your player base will die of boredom.
wawa_springwater on reddit (translated)
For “wawa_springwater”, there is no reason to keep playing after building his build. Not even events have been announced for the holidays.
Why aren’t the new Division 2 missions sufficient? The additional missions that have come with the episodes have turned out well and nicely complement the mission pool.
However, according to some players, the missions are not nearly comparable to the completely new modes of the predecessor. Because these offered a different experience each time and kept people entertained for a while.
Thus, some agents believe that Division 2 fails to engage its players for longer. The first part did this better, and correspondingly, the mood is also affected. The big title update was not enough either.
Massive cancels additional streams
What are the first measures from Massive? Massive has now canceled the further “State of the Games”. They want to report with concrete news only in 2020 (via ubisoft.com).
What do you think, what would Division 2 need now to turn the mood around?
