{"id":92216,"date":"2026-10-28T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92216"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:36:43","slug":"with-the-division-3-still-in-active-development-ubisoft-announces-the-division-franchise-has-hit-more-than-50-million-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92216","title":{"rendered":"With The Division 3 Still in Active Development, Ubisoft Announces The Division Franchise Has Hit More Than 50 Million Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Massive Entertainment has announced that The Division series has recorded over 50 million players across its games, just as the series hits its 10th anniversary. That\u2019s a lot of +1 defense beanies!<\/p>\n<p>The long-running looter shooter began life in 2016 with the launch of The Division. It came out three years after its flashy reveal at Ubisoft&#8217;s E3 2013 conference which, at the time, exceeded expectation for next-gen gaming (remember when the guy closed the car door while in cover?). The Division 2 followed in 2019, but sales failed to meet Ubisoft&#8217;s expectations. A number of spinoffs have come and gone since.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"tom-clancys-the-division-gameplay-demonstration-e3-2013-ubisoft-conference\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Massive Entertainment announced a new DLC for The Division 2 at a community panel at Gamescom earlier this year. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-division-2-echoes-of-central-park-announced\">Echoes of Central Park DLC<\/a> releases on November 3. It seems likely the new expansion \u2014 which adds a horror-themed flashback campaign, a stash space increase, a level boost, and more \u2014 will see even more players shoot numbers out of some guys across the U.S., both returning and new.<\/p>\n<p>With those kinds of numbers, it\u2019s no surprise Ubisoft and Massive aren\u2019t done with the series. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/tom-clancys-the-division-3\">Tom Clancy&#8217;s The Division 3<\/a> is also officially in production at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive Entertainment has announced that The Division series has recorded over 50 million players across its games, just as the series hits its 10th anniversary. That\u2019s a lot of +1 defense beanies! The long-running looter shooter began life in 2016 with the launch of The Division. It came out three years after its flashy reveal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":92218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92220,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92216\/revisions\/92220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}