At least, that’s the thoughts of Massive Entertainment‘s managing director.

David Polfeldt, one of the heads of The Division‘s developers, told GamesIndustry that people might play more with The Division 2 than the first one, they probably won’t immediately let the hands of the 2015 game go: „It’s been three years between The Division and The Division 2. I think there’s a lot of interest in trying a similar type of mechanic but in a new way. I’m pretty sure people are curious about the new one.

Part of me thinks maybe The Division should remain live and The Division 2 is an alternative path for some people. I don’t know what will happen; I think we need to stay very open-minded about that.”

He added that the team doesn’t care about the competition’s new titles because he thinks The Division is „growing”: „I was expecting to see more of an impact on our player base. It’s one of the things that has surprised me with The Division: people play a lot we have a larger player base now than we had six months ago. We’re not particularly impacted by what other games are doing – that’s been a bit of a surprise to me, because I would have expected that when something huge launches, obviously players play more than one game, so I was expecting to see more ups and downs in the player base. But it’s growing – it’s a mystery to me, but it’s working out quite well.”

We’ll see. The first Destiny game is still alive, albeit it’s not getting new content anymore. The Division 2 will launch on March 15 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Source: WCCFTech