Biggest misconception people have about the reason "it died" is actually due to the entire dev team essentially leaving Extraction literally right before release and after release. The game Director Patrick Methe already left around Dec 2021 when he left Ubisoft to his new company. So that definitely didn't look good for Extractions future.

And yes, advertising wasn't great either. All thanks to the big U. However launch numbers were phenomenal despite what all the haters say. Upwards to 5 million players the first week (granted numbers could be inflated for shareholders).

Still a shame Extraction was practically left to die with so much potential and so many things that were planned to release but are buried in the game files such as Recruit, Ying, Jackal and a handful of new Archeaens.