Don't worry about The Division, Ubisoft say as series executive producer jumps to Battlefield amid layoffs

"Our teams who built this satellite with Julian are inactive here"

Julian Gerighty, a long-time cardinal cog astatine Massive Entertainment, has announced that he's departing the Ubisoft-owned workplace aft 12 years to spell and enactment connected Battlefield astatine EA. His departure swiftly follows Ubisoft revealing earlier this week that they're readying to laic disconnected unit astatine Massive, with a voluntary redundancy process precocious past twelvemonth reportedly having not resulted successful capable departures to stave disconnected this bloodletting.

Meanwhile, the publishers person opted to instrumentality the accidental of Gerighty's departure to reassure folks that The Division bid is conscionable fine.

"While we’ll miss him, his people volition unrecorded connected astatine Massive and we’ll proceed to bring the satellite he’s been portion of creating to our players for years to come,” Ubisoft wrote successful said statement. "For our players, don’t worry, Agents. Our teams who built this satellite with Julian are inactive here, carrying it guardant with an ambitious, unchanged committedness for the aboriginal with The Division 2, The Division 2: Survivors, The Division Resurgence and The Division 3."

"It's clip for maine to bent up my spell container (keeping the watch) arsenic I spell connected different expansive adventure," Gerighty wrote successful his ain departure tweet. "The Division aboriginal burns bright, and I can't hold for you to observe what the teams person been moving on."

According to Ubisoft, seasoned Division developers Yannick Banchereau and Mathias Karlson stay originative directors connected The Division 2 and The Division 3 respectively, portion The Division originative manager Magnus Jansen is present helming The Division 2's extraction mode Survivors.

The Division 3 was announced backmost successful 2023, but connection successful had had gone beauteous quiescent until Gerighty precocious said successful an quality that the New Game+ Showcase that helium reckoned it'll "have arsenic large an impact" arsenic the archetypal Division game.

Meanwhile, a poster spotted astatine a Ubisoft-run esports lawsuit successful Japan earlier this week prompted speculation that a definitive variation of that archetypal introduction into the Clancy-filled bid mightiness beryllium astir to beryllium revealed. As of writing, nary specified announcement's been forthcoming.