This is the main disappointment in the long list of announcements of the day around Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. At the end of the Six Invitational tournament, Ubisoft presented its roadmap for the next twelve months. Expected for the beginning of this Year 7, the functions of cross-play and of cross-progression will finally arrive from the end of 2022.
In order to be able to release everything we’ve talked regarding so far, we need to delay the launch of cross-play and cross-progression to the end of the year.
Here is the complete roadmap for Year 7 ???? pic.twitter.com/4dIn0TNpS4
— Rainbow Six Siege FR (@Rainbow6FR) February 20, 2022
The disappointment is necessarily great, especially for console players who wanted to see the presence of keyboards and mice become widespread on the title. The two elements are necessarily linked, for the sake of balance.
That said, the age of the title, without fully excusing this postponement, provides its explanation. Siege is now a veteran in the competitive multiplayer FPS family. The game celebrated its sixth candle last December. Its development, meanwhile, began more than ten years ago. At the time, the Ubisoft teams had simply not foreseen the possibility of cross-play and today encounter logical difficulties in implementing it.
The long wait is therefore frustrating but also reassuring. It proves the studio’s involvement in releasing a cross-platform version of Rainbow Six Siege as successful as possible. It is now a question of waiting with serenity for this particularly hoped-for functionality.
