Roller Champions is not cancelled, but Ubisoft is delaying the next season

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Ubisoft has issued a formal denial of a rumor claiming that its free-to-play roller derby game Roller Champions(opens in new tab) will soon be cancelled, saying that it «fully supports» the game. However, it will delay the start of the next season while it works on new features and fixes aimed at addressing player concerns.

The rumor of Roller Champion's looming demise came from Jeff Grubb, who suggested during the XboxEra Podcast(opens in new tab) (via VGC(opens in new tab)) that Roller Champions could be cancelled after its third season. But Ubisoft, which actually touted the success of Roller Champions in its most recent quarterly financial report, said it's not happening.

«Let's clear it out of the way first, Roller Champions isn't getting cancelled, and Ubisoft fully supports it,» developer Ubisoft Montreal said on Twitter. «What the Roller Champions dev team is doing is making sure we focus on what our players have told us needs improvements, and that supersedes all other priorities.»

To that end, Ubisoft is extending the current season, Disco Fever(opens in new tab), in order to launch an update incorporating cross-invites (Roller Champions supports crossplay, but you can only invite friends to play if they're on the same platform as you) and, separately, «to solve the issues our players have voiced as irritants.» Ubisoft said the cross-invites patch will include other fixes, but it will continue working on other improvements to the game after that, but before it begins a new season.

«As far as content is concerned, we can tell you that we've got exciting stuff planned for the next seasons,» Ubisoft wrote. «We strongly believe, however, that before we release new content, we've got to do right by our players,