The business is concentrating on live-service and open-world gaming.
With the announcement of The Division Heartland, a free-to-play edition in its survival-action shooter franchise, Ubisoft made the announcement a little more than three years ago. Heartland was supposed to arrive later in 2021 or 2022, according to the information that was available at the time, but that did not really materialize. As a matter of fact, Heartland will not be released at all.
It was announced in Ubisoft’s quarterly earnings report that the company had terminated the production of the game. Red Storm Entertainment, a firm that author Tom Clancy had helped to start, was working on the game at the time. The company Ubisoft is refocusing its attention on what it refers to as “bigger opportunities,” which include other areas of the Clancyverse that are included in the XDefiant and Rainbow Six titles.
Over the course of the past few years, Ubisoft has abandoned a number of games in an effort to streamline its production pipeline and improve its cost efficiency. By the end of March, the company said that it had cut its headcount by more than 1,700 workers over the course of 18 months, bringing the total number of employees to 19,011.
The organization also presented an update on the overall plan that it has been pursuing. It intends to concentrate on two primary pillars: open-world games (such as Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Star Wars Outlaws) and ongoing live-service games (such as XDefiant and Rainbow Six Siege). More Far Cry and Ghost Recon games are likely to be released in the years to come, as this is the area in which Ubisoft believes there is opportunity for expansion.
At the Ubisoft Forward event, which will take place on June 10, we will get the most recent information regarding games such as AC Shadows, Star Wars Outlaws, Rainbow Six Mobile (which is expected to be released in September), The Division Resurgence, and XDefiant.