Ubisoft Claims The Division’s Player Count Back Up
Earlier this week, the second expansion for Tom Clancy’s The Division launched for Xbox One and Windows PC. The expansion will be released for the PlayStation 4 on December 20th. Alongside the DLC, the newest update was released. The patch notes are extensive for the 1.5 update which includes World Tier 5 bracket, 12 new weapon types only available in the new world tier, as well as six new high-end named gear pieces and four high-end named weapons. Today, we learned that according to publisher Ubisoft, the game has seen a resurgence and has returned back to “daily active users” that were there at launch.
Vice President of live operations at Ubisoft said “Since the release of patch 1.4, we went back to the daily active users we had at launch, because people were [so impressed].” Further more he stated: “people realized we meant what we said and Ubisoft plus developers Massive put time into fixing problems identified by the community.” Ubisoft did not clarify with specific numbers, or what exactly “launch” means in the sentence.
The Division‘s 1.4 patch, released in late October, brought fairly hefty changes to the shooter including features, UI improvements, gameplay changes and much more. Also since then (as we mentioned above), Survival DLC and Update 1.5 went live for The Division also likely boosting the playerbase.
This is all fine and dandy, but is Ubisoft to be believed here? Do you think the player count is back up? We would like to see some raw data from the publisher.
The Division launched on March 8, 2016 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
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