It seems that in order to achieve their main and only goal – making money, Ubisoft is taking a roundabout approach. Apparently, it's too difficult to improve the sixth installment, but it's much easier and more profitable to create all sorts of raw imitations and pass them off as "new."
It's all very sad:(

By the way, the "Might and Magic: Duel of Champions" project can only develop if Heroes 6 develops as well. Because most of the cards are based on the unit art from Heroes 6.

I'm currently playing the M&MDoC beta. I haven't been able to tear myself away from it for a couple of weeks. And that's despite the fact that the beta crashes to the desktop during Multiplayer games after the latest patch.

In my opinion, the game is quite engaging. But after some time, the project may become a little boring, because the more cards you have in your collection, the less often you will encounter new cards.

Conclusion: to maintain the freshness of M&MDoC, Ubisoft should periodically release new types of cards. The most reliable way is to add new Factions.

But all the Factions in M&MDoC are based exclusively on the Factions from Heroes 6. Therefore, to keep M&MDoC alive, it is necessary to release new Factions in Heroes 6.

However, very few people will buy add-ons or DLC with new Factions for Heroes 6 if the mechanics of the sixth installment remain as boring and buggy. And because of this, their release may turn out to be commercially unviable.

Conclusion: if Ubisoft wants to develop M&MDoC, they will simply be forced to improve Heroes 6.

I think Ubisoft should really be interested in this. Because in one of their Q&A sessions, their representatives said that Heroes 6 had the highest initial sales in the series (presumably subsequent sales declined because fans of previous installments started complaining on forums, demanding city screens and bug fixes). What do high initial sales and low subsequent sales indicate? That there is considerable interest in Heroes 6 from the gaming Community (in its genre niche, of course). What do further low sales indicate? That the gaming Community is waiting for a quality improvement to the game. And only after a substantial list of fixes will they buy Heroes 6. I hope Ubisoft understands that in order to "make money," they need to improve the game's quality.

So, in my opinion, M&MDoC will be more beneficial to the sixth installment than harmful. And what harm could there be when the games even have different developers?