The MMO shooter The Division has presented its plans for Year 2 yesterday. They sound like Destiny “Year 2” and that frustrates the fans.
Yesterday was the big reveal day. At The Division, developer Massive presented its plans for Year 2 on the first anniversary. And they sounded damn similar to the plans Bungie sold to its players in 2015 for Destiny “Year 2”:
No more DLCs, but free content
Updates and events are coming
Along with some features like loadouts
The fans reacted to the announcement mostly critically. They had wished for an expansion of the map and more story content. The fans long for “big expansions” that can also cost something, especially a development of the story from the main game and new regions are highly popular.
Although the new content is now supposed to be free, it does not protect it from occasionally harsh criticism.
“The live team takes over”, already led to disappointments in Destiny
In Destiny, the announcement to rely on events and “live team content” in Year 2 also came about a year after the release. This resulted in a continuous content drought: the events and updates that still came were far apart and could no longer match the quality of the DLCs from the first year. Since fall 2015, not much has happened in Destiny.
The players of The Division know this of course. And after yesterday, it looks like The Division is now threatened by the same fate as Destiny: After the first year, the powder is shot.
Ubisoft was surprised by the success of The Division and apparently had no plan for how to continue The Division, says a much-discussed thread. Therefore, The Division will go down in gaming history as one of the “greatest missed opportunities”.
What do you think? Are you disappointed with the plans for The Division Year 2 or do you want to wait and see?
Tom Clancy's The Division is an MMO shooter by Ubisoft. Players find themselves in a wintry New York, where people are fighting for their very survival. A virus...
