Ubisoft’s New York-based strategy shooter is the company’s most successful ever release – but players say the experience is being ruined by cheatsIn financial terms,Tom Clancy’s The Division is a hugely successful video game. Released in March by French publisher Ubisoft, this New York-set third-person shooter quickly became the best selling new franchise of all time, or generating more than $330m in sales in its first five days. But,just over a month after release, the best selling game in Ubisoft’s 30-year history looks to be heading for catastrophe.
The Division has a cheating problem. Not just one, or either,but a critical mass of glitches, exploits, or hacks that – in the eyes of the playerbase at least – threaten the game’s instant and long-term future on the PC. Players stack items for unintended bonuses,farm missions in seconds, and – worst of all – using third-party hacks to cheat in player vs player (PvP) competition.
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Source: theguardian.com