Even though The Division 2 isn’t nearly as popular as, say, Destiny 2, it still enjoys a fair bit of attention. Recently, Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment announced that Division 2 would essentially adopt the Diablo 4 seasonal model, switching over to time-limited seasonal characters for progression. Not a popular move.
Since the announcement was made, Division 2 players were understandably unhappy with the fact that they’d no longer be able to take their Agents through seasonal content. Instead, they’d have to rely on seasonal characters to make progress, while legacy Agents would be left to languish in old, out-of-date content. Thankfully, Massive Entertainment appears to have taken the players’ feedback to heart, to some extent, and the studio has now announced that it’s going to “re-evaluate Seasons 2.0 with particular attention to Seasonal Characters with the goal of progressing without them.”
The Division 2 developer is reconsidering the introduction of limited-time seasonal characters
This is obviously great and all, but I feel it’s worth taking Massive Entertainment’s specific verbiage into account. The studio’s announcement hasn’t outright stated that it would do away with seasonal characters or make them optional: the feature is merely being re-evaluated, and it very well could happen that it doesn’t actually go anywhere in the end.
It’s a shame, too, because the new Seasons 2.0 rework does seem genuinely exciting, even if there is a dearth of fresh content available in The Division 2 at this point in time, and the new seasonal character approach took the wind out of its sails. “This change will not impact the previously announced Year 6 plans,” says the announcement, “but it will require us to assess the changes necessary to the new Seasonal Experience, which will be integrated with Year 6 Season 2 this fall.”
More information should be coming in as the developer figures out what’s what and what’s not with the new model, so fans ought to stay tuned for sure. Masssive has promised that this information will be published with a livestream and subsequently tested in a Public Test Server, which is obviously good news.
In the end, it’s hard to say what’s going to happen next with The Division 2. The game has been slowly trucking along in the background, persevering way longer than some of its most prominent competitors, but Ubisoft appears to be confused on what to do with it next. A proper sequel isn’t even on the docket yet, and the Brooklyn DLC is still shrouded in mystery. Time will tell, I suppose.
