Here's A Feature Ubisoft's The Division WON'T Have
One feature growing in popularity with co-op games is the ability to buy, sell or trade items you collect — not to NPCs or store merchant bots, but to other players. It’s commonly called a player trading system, and it was popularized in World of Warcraft. It was rumored that Ubisoft’s upcoming shooter The Division would include this feature, but today the truth came out: associate creative director Julian Gerighty told GamesRadar that it would not be in the game at launch.
At one point, a player trading system was really in the game, but ultimately, it had to be removed. “It’s the reality of production. Some features make it, some features don’t,”Julian said, adding that the “priority of different features” had a hand in its axing.
However, just because it won’t be there at launch doesn’t mean it couldn’t be added in a future update. “It’s something that obviously some people are very passionate about,” Julian said. “It’ll maybe make an appearance in the future.”
Julian said nothing about another feature initially announced for The Division yet axed even earlier than this: the Companion App, which would have let other players assist you by controlling a drone on a tablet displaying a map of the immediate area. Nifty idea, but we may never see it. Tom Clancy’s The Division comes out March 8.