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Topics: Ubisoft, PC, Free Games, Mobile Games
Ubisoft has officially brought back Tom Clancy’s The Division, albeit as a free-to-play PC game.
Earlier this week, Ubisoft shadow dropped Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence onto its PC storefront, Ubisoft Connect.
Announced way back in 2022, The Division Resurgence was intended as a free-to-play mobile take on the third-person shooter series, and was never announced to be coming to PC.
After nearly four years since the initial reveal, Ubisoft finally launched the game on iOS and Android on 31 March. However, less than a month later it’s now also launched on PC.
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“Our objective in bringing the Division universe to mobile, is to enable more people worldwide to enjoy this open world experience whenever and wherever they want,” reads Ubisoft’s manifesto on the game from 2022. “We feel very lucky that the mobile market has evolved to the point where we can develop such an ambitious game.”
With that in mind, it’s possible that Ubisoft decided to bring the game to PC in order to attract more players. Mobile games have a certain reputation among gamers, but a game that is available across both PC and mobile tends to have a stronger playerbase to pull from.
This is especially the case when a game is free-to-play, and needs to bank on DLC, microtransactions, and a healthy playerbase in order to succeed. This may be why Ubisoft has suddenly decided to change course.
Whether it'll be able to find success, especially in the face of other live-service games that have been recently cancelled at Ubisoft, such as Pathfinder and XDefiant, remains to be seen.
As Ubisoft puts it, The Division Resurgence features “new storyline, villains and factions”. Set within Midtown, New York, you play as an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division whose job is to “restore order, to protect civilians against hostile factions, and to help them rebuild a better future”.
The game retains all of the core gameplay elements that make up the earlier games in the series, while also “adapting the controls to handheld devices, making it easier than ever to keep on fighting”.
If you're playing on PC, you can only play the game through Ubisoft Connect. It’s not available on alternative storefronts like Steam or the Epic Games Store.
The blurb on The Division Resurgence reads: “Explore a shared open world set in New York City, featuring iconic locations and playable solo or fully in co-op. Complete more than 100 world activities as you restore order and uncover an exclusive, canon storyline that reveals a plot threatening the entire city — and beyond.
“Loot, mod, and customize a wide variety of weapons and gear, along with skins and cosmetics, to build your perfect agent and grow stronger. When you feel ready, take the risk and enter the Dark Zone to claim fabulous rewards, if you succeed in getting out!”
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