In the upcoming MMO shooter The Division, Reddit users have now discovered hints of an Alpha in the homepage code. That’s enough to raise hopes.
In Tom Clancy’s The Division, it only takes a spark to trigger wild speculations. Mainly media speculations. You read headlines on German gaming sites immediately stating “Open Alpha for The Division planned,” even though such a thing is still far away.
What happened? Clever users, probably former Watchdogs players, have found a bit of code in the source code of The Division’s homepage that could indicate “Alpha”. The code snippet has since been removed. It was probably just a link to a placeholder. Nothing more. At the moment, nothing else is confirmed. Whether an Alpha is coming or not is, as so much else about The Division, still unclear. Perhaps we will learn more at GDC 2015, where there is supposed to be a one-hour panel on The Division on March 2 and March 6 respectively.
