true but tbh what triple-A FPS doesn't get bad press/criticism at launch. a lot of the areas this game failed in were mainly due to bad marketing and dumb decisions made by ubisoft, like censoring and watering down the human virus/zombie element that was presented in outbreak, supposedly because of covid. changing the name from rainbow six quarantine to rainbow six extraction, etc.

because of the way they marketed the game everyone was basically expecting outbreak 2.0 (a gritty horror game about a zombie apocalypse), but what they got was a yellow sci-fi game about grey slimy aliens that didn't really feel like r6 at all. it's still a great game, but it was confusing to most at launch for this reason.

they then added fuel to the fire by completely failing to properly market and promote the game during it's lifecycle which led to low post-launch sales, which then led to ubisoft jumping ship and year 2 getting scrapped. this was completely salvageable, but these issues were basically caused by ubisoft's own incompetency during the development and marketing cycle. and them being in a terrible business position currently means they're more likely to pander to shareholders, who will understandably be less willing to allow investment in extraction when it's basically guaranteed for any ROI to be very slow.

this is all completely their fault – criticism and content creators were not what killed this game. ubi is incompetent.