The Division's companion app has been canned

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Tom Clancy's The Division was going to ship with a companion app on mobile devices that would allow players on the go to interact with their friends playing the main game. That feature has been nixed.
A rep from developer Massive confirmed to IGN that this companion app had been canned because it "created an imbalance" that compromised the team-based competitive gameplay.
That's not especially surprising, given how helpful the remote player would be. The idea behind the app was that it would allow players to control a drone that could rain death from above or magically buff the armour of its teammates. (But we can pretend it's nanomachines if that's easier to swallow.)
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