
To that end, Roller Champions' current season, called Disco Fever, is being extended and its next season is delayed while developers "take enough time to solve the issues our players have voiced as irritants before we release our new season. At last years E3 Ubisoft announced something a little different in Roller Champions, a multiplayer roller-derby-inspired game that hopes to tap into the. "What the Roller Champions dev team is doing is making sure we focus on what our players have told us needs improvement, and that supersedes all other priorities," it reads.
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(Someone tell the games industry's social media managers that you can help accessibility by adding alt text to all these statements they post as images on Twitter.)Īfter confirming that Roller Champions isn't cancelled, the statement goes on to explain some changes being made to its update roadmap. You can rest assured we’ll keep you updated as we roll forward.įull statement: /U8mfQRZRoH- Roller Champions JTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. Hello Champions! Let’s clear it out of the way first, Roller Champions isn’t getting cancelled, and Ubisoft fully supports it. In a statement posted on Twitter, its developers say "Roller Champions isn’t getting cancelled, and Ubisoft fully supports it." The rumours grew to the point where Ubisoft have commented on them to say: nuh-uh. Preseason continues until June 21-at that point, Season 1 begins.Rumours began to circulate over the weekend that Ubisoft were planning on cancelling their free-to-play fantasy sports game Roller Champions.

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Roller Champions is available for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and PC. That was very important to us to be able to react if we have to." (Image credit: Ubisoft) Roller Champions developer Ubisoft Montreal dismissed rumors of the game's. "Being a very heavy game, it gives us the freedom to be able to do a lot of changes if we need to. The dev team is currently triaging high-priority fixes. "There's planned content updates, and on the fly updates as well," Barnes added. "Since this game is launching in the summer, we wanted to get the summer vibes in there. "Every season, we will have new arenas," game designer Juliana Goriounov said. Unlike the month-long preseason, future seasons are currently aiming to be three months long. Going forward, the plan is to have Roller Champions continue to grow, adding more arenas to play on and cosmetics to earn. We like to see what's out there, take some learnings, see how we can work it into our team, and truly make it a roller experience."
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"We've taken learnings from all of them, including how to work as a dev team. "So like Rainbow 6 Siege, For Honor-even Hyper Scape," Barnes said.

The Roller Champions team arrived at this plan of action after seeing how Ubisoft's other live service games have faired over the years-both those that have gone on to be successful and ones that have quickly failed. The rumor of Roller Champion's looming demise came from Jeff Grubb, who suggested during the Xbo圎ra Podcast (via VGC) that Roller Champions could be cancelled after its third season.


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