Massive recently introduced 515 Gearscore gear, over the current cap of 500, to drop in the Dark Zone. This is roughly the position that Massive has taken as well, as despite all the requests for a PvE Dark Zone in The Division 1, that never happened. MassiveInstead, what we saw was kind of alternative for PvP-focused players rather than the thing PvE players wanted. But the PvPvE element of the Dark Zone remains, and now some people are getting annoyed by it once more. There is always a hardcore contingent of Dark Zone players who push back on all this, but I am genuinely unsure of what they’d lose if PvE was just an option for the Dark Zone.

Source: Forbes April 20, 2019 13:18 UTC