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Ubisoft quietly cancel The Division HeartlandMiddling America
Middling America
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The Division Heartland is (was) a free-to-play survival shooter set in a small fictional town in middle America. It wasannounced back in 2021and was set to tie into the Division’s overall storyline while showing the pandemic’s fallout from a more rural perspective. In truth we didn’t see much of it but fromglimpses of the developer’s workit was intended to play something like an extraction shooter, with players squirreling for items during the day and fending off other players at night.
Ubisoft elaborated on their decision,telling IGN: “After careful consideration, we have made the tough call to halt development on Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland, effective immediately. Our priority now is to support the talented team members at our Red Storm Entertainment studio, who will be transitioning to new projects within our company, including XDefiant and Rainbow Six.”
Rainbow Six Siege is one of ourbest multiplayer games, so I guess that makes business sense? Elsewhere in the Ubisoft’s earnings report, the company lauded its “cost reduction” efforts, pointing out a decrease of “more than 1700” employees. That figure will include natural turnover as people come and go, but it also includesall the workersUbisoft laid off. They reported an operating income of €401.4 million.
