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Ubisoft’s The Division 3 is transferring forward with out govt producer Julian Gerighty, who just lately left the corporate to hitch EA to work on the Battlefield franchise. On the time, Ubisoft advised followers they needn’t fear about The Division 3 shedding him, and now senior producer Fredrik Brönjemark has echoed that sentiment, saying the roadmap for The Division 3 had been “deliberate and secured for a while already.”
“Julian’s departure is not a distraction. We’re glad for him and clearly unhappy to see him go. He was a pal. However so far as The Division 3 goes, we’ve our future and our roadmap that’s already safe, and we all know precisely the place we’re going and precisely what we wish to do,” Brönjemark advised GI.biz.
The Division 2 inventive director Yannick Banchereau went on to say he has “zero doubt” that The Division will stay standard for at the least one other decade.
“It’s all about having glad gamers and a thriving group,” he stated. “That’s the fundamental purpose. If we’ve that, then finally we can develop the playerbase and have a powerful and thriving group when The Division 3 releases and continues the expansion from there. That is actually what we see in entrance of us.”
2026 marks the tenth anniversary of The Division, and Brönjemark stated this yr will mark the “largest yr” ever for the sport when it comes to content material. “We aren’t simply nonetheless going, we’re rising. We’re rising in ambition and we’re delivering an increasing number of issues. There aren’t many video games within the place we’re in now,” he stated.
Additionally within the interview, Banchereau stated Ubisoft has regarded into the opportunity of transitioning The Division 2 to a free-to-play mannequin, just like how Rainbow Six Siege adopted that in 2025. Nonetheless, doing so for The Division 2 “by no means made sense,” he stated.
That is partly as a result of switching to a free mannequin would require design modifications, and Ubisoft is not eager to try this. “We are attempting to be a bit protecting of the expertise of our gamers and the best way we monetise, the best way we do enterprise,” Brönjemark stated.
For The Division 2 to continue to grow, it must hold earning money, and Brönjemark stated Ubisoft needs to attain this in a approach that feels “respectful” to its gamers. Going free would not essentially “violate that,” he stated, however it will require diversifications that Ubisoft hasn’t felt the necessity to implement.
When it comes to future progress for The Division general, Ubisoft simply launched a brand new cell recreation, The Division Resurgence. One The Division recreation that’s not coming to market is the free-to-play The Division: Heartland, which was canceled in 2024. Brönjemark stated the staff discovered some classes from that recreation, and this has contributed to the expansion of The Division 2.
A film adaptation of The Division was introduced in 2019 for Netflix however has seemingly stalled, with no main updates on it in years. John Wick’s David Leitch was initially tapped to direct, however was later changed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain had been at one level connected to star within the film.
Ubisoft as an organization is present process main modifications, because the writer and developer broke aside just lately with a brand new Tencent-funded subsidiary specializing in The Division, Rainbow Six, Far Cry, and Murderer’s Creed. Ubisoft additionally applied a drastic cost-cutting initiative that led to mass layoffs and the cancellation of quite a few video games. The firm has new video games coming, together with “a number of new IPs” and quite a few extra Murderer’s Creed titles.