As much as I enjoy playing The Division, I can't help but feel disappointed that The Division 2 is coming out.
I've been online gaming since dial-up, must be around about 25 years, and I find I get the most satisfaction from the immersivenes of games.
Adding more expansions to The Division would add to the immersivenes, why bring out The Division 2? Just expand, the virus has obviously spread to the wider world, so each expansion players would have access to a new zone and eventually the whole world. The Division has the potential to be massive and so so immersive, let it be so.
Lessons should be learned from massively successful games like Blizzards World of Warcraft..... expand expand expand, players get to keep their character and all their gear throughout instead of starting from scratch in a new game with some rewards from the previous game.
Zimbo78 is right, but there are quite some other reasons to favor a sequel over an expansion.
Money is probably the most important one.
I would have loved an expansion in New York, but there is hardly anything to progress now in TD1. I'm just hoping we learn what happened in New York in the past 5 and a half months in the story of TD2.
What's broken like? Seems fine to me.
You don't just expand the map.. expand the back story too make changes to it, add to it.
What happened to the rogue agent? Continue to track him, give him a wider organisation and track and kill his generals, mutate the virus, add another gate in the terminal with a working underground train that links multiple cities, add missions to get the train working, the story line could go off in so many different tangents.
Brining out a new game seems a waste, it'll just be the same game with a different skin.
PVP is broken. It is certainly not fine.Originally Posted by Snorkks Go to original post
There are bugs still prevalent 3 years after launch
There is no anti cheat
Invisible grenades thrown by players
Grenades that explode before the NPC's grenade launcher even launches it
Skirmish matchmaking is broken
Skating NPCs
Shall I continue?
Standard, games always suffer technical problems, patch it and move on, I play on PC and unfortunately not everything can be patched but adding an expansion is the prefect opportunity to make the necessary changes that would allow issues to be fixed and add anti cheat, hell I've played games where they've even updated graphics and made massive changes to the base game as part of an expansion.
Everything can be fixed or replaced/recoded, the real reason behind the launch of The Division 2 is not because The Division is broken it's because it was originally a massive flop, the launch of The Division 2 is an attempt at both retaining it's current player base and capturing / appealing to more.
I doubt however that anything can be done about Cronus Max cheaters because the consoles won't recognize it as a cheat.
They want to basically make The Division almost like a series, each story being different, in a different location. They also want to compete with the newer stuff coming out, and D1 wouldn't really last with Anthem coming out, and I know Destiny 2 really won't with the both of them out really. They also wanted to do things they wished and should have done for the first game, and of course they are really proud and happy about their new Snowdrop engine.