Siege boss braces for GTA 6 impact and rules out a sequel
Rainbow Six Siege will take a hit when Grand Theft Auto 6 arrives in November 2026. Creative director Joshua Mills said so directly, adding that he expects his entire team to be playing it too.
Mills said the dip will be temporary. Big releases always pull players away from live-service games, titles sold once then updated in seasons after launch, before numbers settle again. His plan is to look after the players who stay.
Ubisoft's golden rule, he said, is to serve those players like kings and queens. The team will not go on vacation when a rival swells the market. It will double down and reward the people spending time with Siege, GameSpot.
That fightback has a date. Year 11 Season 4 is scheduled to release around the GTA 6 launch in November 2026. Mills teased unannounced surprises timed for that window that will make a splash, without giving details.
For players, this means November will be crowded. Siege is a tactical shooter built on short, tense rounds. GTA 6 is an open-world crime saga with a vast audience. Mills is betting some fans will play both, and that extras and a fresh season give Siege regulars a reason to return between heists.
Mills also closed the door on a sequel. Ubisoft built Siege X instead of Siege 2 because rebuilding the entire system from scratch is a mountain of work. Siege X, released as a major upgrade rather than a new game, is not close to that scale.
Making Siege 2 would mean switching off the current game. It would also pull the specialists who run that live game onto the new project. Running both at the same time would be very difficult, he said.
Mills took over as creative director from Alexander Karpazis earlier this year, The Game Business. He inherited a game in transition after the Siege X update, delivered last year to mark ten years of the shooter.
Siege X added a free tier, a lower-cost entry point, plus a new mode, quality-of-life fixes, modernised visuals and destructible items. After launch, Ubisoft gave the team time to rest and recover. That break created a lull in the seasonal cadence, the steady rhythm of new content drops.
Mills said the team misaligned with community expectations in that period and has trust to rebuild. There was also a large personnel shift around Siege X. Many developers had been on the project for seven years or longer before moving on.
December 2025 added to the strain. A hacker group attack forced Ubisoft to take Siege offline. Thousands of accounts were banned and unbanned in the fallout, and players were given large sums of in-game currency.
Looking ahead, Ubisoft has another Rainbow Six project in the pipeline. Rainbow Six Siege Tactics, a turn-based tactical game set in the same universe where players take moves in turns rather than in real time, is set for release in 2027.
