Rainbow Six Siege 2 and Apex Legends 2 rumoured as publishers alter sequel plans

Two of the biggest unrecorded work games whitethorn beryllium astir to get sequels, with comments from EA astir Apex Legends 2 and rumours of Rainbow Six Siege 2.

The everlastingly crippled is the imagination for astir publishers nowadays, driven by the occurrence of Fortnite and Roblox. It’s wherefore truthful galore person jumped connected the unrecorded work games bandwagon, hoping to merchandise a crippled that’ll ne'er extremity and tin conscionable beryllium perpetually updated with caller content.

Unfortunately for publishers, astir attempts neglect and often miserably so. Just this week, Warner Bros. announced it’ll beryllium winding down enactment for its free-to-play level combatant MultiVersus and past twelvemonth saw the likes of XDefiant, Foamstars, and the disastrous Concord conscionable akin fates.

There person been immoderate semipermanent successes though, specified arsenic EA’s Apex Legends and Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege. Both person antecedently said that the games volition ne'er person sequels but it seems that cognition is changing astatine some companies.

Live work games typically don’t get sequels since it requires convincing an full playerbase to ditch the crippled they’ve invested clip and wealth into for a newer mentation they’ll perchance dislike and doesn’t person immoderate of the contented they earned/bought (this is 1 of the reasons Bungie divided with Activision, fixed their insistence connected making Destiny 3).

Overwatch 2 is the evident existent illustration of this situation, which wholly replaced its predecessor, quickly proved unpopular, and repeatedly angered players with astir each determination it made – peculiarly by cancelling promised content.

It says a batch that Activision Blizzard’s caller efforts to triumph implicit fans has been a throwback mode to the archetypal Overwatch and bringing backmost 6v6 gameplay.

Apex Legends developer Respawn erstwhile called a hypothetical Apex Legends 2 its ‘anti-vision’ and conscionable this past October EA CEO Andrew Wilson seemed disinterested successful the idea, telling investors successful an net call, ‘Typically, what we person seen successful the discourse of unrecorded service-driven games astatine standard is, the ‘version two’ happening has astir ne'er been arsenic palmy arsenic the ‘version one’ thing’ (via Eurogamer).

A batch must’ve changed successful the past 3 months oregon truthful because, successful EA’s latest net call, Wilson says, ‘There volition beryllium a clip wherever we request to bash a much meaningful update of Apex Legends arsenic a wide crippled experience. And the squad is diligently moving connected that,’ adjacent referring to it arsenic an ‘Apex 2.0.’

It’s not wholly wide if Apex 2.0 would beryllium treated arsenic a abstracted product, that supplants the original, oregon if it would conscionable present an overhaul to the existent crippled without requiring players to commencement from scratch, but this is the archetypal clip EA has talked similar this astir the game.

As for what could person spurred this change, Wilson admits there’s been a driblet successful Apex Legends revenue, but the crippled is inactive performing wrong expectations. Although EA is astir apt spooked by the recent underperformance of EA Sports FC 25 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard and is anxious to marque up for it elsewhere.

Meanwhile, a fashionable rumour that’s dispersed passim the Rainbow Six Siege assemblage is that its ain sequel (referred to arsenic Siege X) is successful the works. Ubisoft has besides insisted it has no plans for a sequel, but past it did accidental it wanted to enactment Siege for 10 years and it has present been 10 years since the game’s 2015 release.

The rumour comes from dataminer fraxiswinning, who claims the sequel volition beryllium announced during the Six Invitational 2025 esports contention adjacent week and volition diagnostic a implicit motor overhaul, graphical upgrades, and caller events.

It seems similar publishers are becoming much receptive to the thought of unrecorded work crippled sequels, possibly due to the fact that gathering connected an already established crippled and playerbase is easier than promoting thing wholly new.

Their alteration successful cognition whitethorn besides simply beryllium due to the fact that immoderate of these games are getting aged and a caller procreation of consoles is looming. Insisting a crippled volition beryllium supported for astatine slightest 10 years seems similar forever… until clip catches up with you.

Counter-Strike 2 whitethorn besides person thing to bash with the alteration successful attitude, since contempt pushback from long-time fans of the original, who were upset that it was being replaced, it’s easy the astir fashionable crippled connected Steam, regularly attracting astir a cardinal players each month.

All successful all, it appears what EA and Ubisoft person decided is that it’s amended to treble down connected the unrecorded work games that are really doing good alternatively than put successful making marque caller ones.

Time volition archer if this cognition pervades passim the remainder of the industry. At the precise least, EA looks to beryllium walking backmost its stance connected single-player games, since it blames Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s underperformance connected its deficiency of unrecorded work elements, which whitethorn besides person inspired them to rethink their cognition towards games arsenic a service.

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