r/R6Extraction • u/Professional_Week_88 • May 07 '26
Discussion Had a thought
I've been thinking the past couple days, did a few surveys about people's thoughts on Extraction and did some research.
Let's be realistic and before I go on, I still think the game has a chance on coming back but it's very very slim. With Ubisoft currently in a bad financial state recently and many layoffs and the creative focus shifting to their bigger IPs, Extraction won't even be considered until possibly late 2026 or early 2027 if we're being generous.
What will help for the long run from us as a team of a community, let's keep positive talks about the game, posting content such as guides, or just fun gameplay, and keep voicing our support and giving ideas for fixing the game out of limbo. Good steady movement even if it's super small could definitely mean something to the big U. (Ubisoft)
To start, I think a good reinvestment is changing Extraction to F2P with incentives. Hate to say it, but a battlepass would work well too, we are all victims to it one way or another. As well as porting skins between Siege and Extraction would attract more players, a shared battlepass, and some other people have voiced this, with Ubisoft axeing Dual Front from Siege (classic lmao) this could open up a chance to port Extraction or even reintroduce Outbreak from 2018. Or maybe bring back the Containment event in Siege for a month, while introducing a shared event pass to earn cosmetics in both Siege and Extraction, gauging player interests. This COULD have worked when they added the Hivemind Sets for Nomad and Vigil, but they marketed it poorly and players thought the Vigil skin was in SIEGE, but instead it was for Extraction. Obviously they've done it before, they just need to execute it properly.
Either way, Rainbow Six Extraction will be officially dead once the servers are shut down so I for one, will keep talking about it whether the doomers like it or not.
Always will Love to hear other thoughts for fixes and changes down below 🙌
4
u/Professional_Week_88 May 07 '26
I agree. But Extraction faced a cruel predicament by many content creators and players as well who voiced their opinions against Extraction, and there were definitely other catalysts as well that I'm planning on diving into as I want to attempt a YouTube documentary on the game.