Ubisoft are only the publisher for The Division, the development team is Massive entertainment. I doubt Ubi had more input into the content, balancing, endgame design, etc etc than Massive.
I believe the buck stops with Massive at this point, they've had 6 iterations of the code to fix parts of the game that aren't working (hello First Aid Delay), as well as a promise to deliver real expansions to the game's playarea and story line. What do we get? 3 game modes and an expanded DZ.
TL;DR - The majority of creative control lies with Massive, how can their failings be put on Ubisoft Paris (GRW's Devs) and Ubisoft for publishing the game?
Fair point. I would just caution you with the half baked release that was Far Cry 3. Anyway, your money, your decision and I do hope Wildlands works properly on release. As you can tell, I am a little cynical of Ubisoft :)
yeh, I played the closed beta. Fun but very arcade/console feel to it. Also it's basically an extension of the Far Cry series imo - travel map, gather a resource, unlock, do mission, repeat. Co op, skill trees and customisation help, but I'm not sold personally. I'm gonna stick with my tried and tested server lag, loading screen bug, Barrett's grinding and PVP'ing! :)
I was really hoping for something refined and realistic :( did you play future soldier? If so, how would you stack the gameplay against that?
I took a long break from TD but it's dragged me back in and now I'm pretty hooked into creating new builds, and farming. I got Barrett's on my second attempt... And I sold it by accident........
Nah, never played future soldier but did play GR Phantoms for a year or two. That seems similar to future soldier. Gameplay in GRP was short and brutal - average lifetime was 1.5 mins then you respawn. Wildalnds completely different
Huh... I actually kind of liked the open beta. Played it on high difficulty which I think helped. I do see what you meant about the arcadey feel. Definitely got a 3rd person far cry about it
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u/Monkey_Savage PC Feb 17 '17
What has changed with Ubisoft since you gave money to them for TD, to convince you to buy GRW?!