Half the XDefiant team has been transitioning to "other roles within Ubisoft" since that original announcement in December. According to Insider Gaming, a "skeleton crew" was kept on to run XDefiant until its servers shut down this week. 300 people at Ubisoft were impacted by layoffs following the decision by Ubisoft to shutter XDefiant.
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>XDefiant launched on May 21, 2024
yikes, that did not last long.
Not surprised in the slightest
Was the marketing bad? I’ve never heard of it.
I participated in the beta for this and it wasn’t bad by any means but it wasn’t good enough to get me to play it when it released. It didn’t really feel like it was doing anything different that wasn’t already available in much more popular games.
Oh no… Anyway
I hope someone can release a proper competitor to COD multiplayer one day. Xdefiant had potential and I got that some of that same feeling from them as I do from COD multiplayer
The streak of Ubisoft Excellence continues, it’s brown and stinky but it is a streak.
I guess all two fans of the game are going to be quite upset when they find out.
And once again a game dies with no thoughts put to game preservation.
Thought was pretty good for what it was. But the hit registration was terrible and ruined to fun for me.
Made a game nobody wanted so I’m not surprised it’s dead. You don’t beat competition by making the competitions product.
It wasnt a bad game at all, but the skins and part of its style were absolutely awful
i played that game for a while.. got some fancy weapons unlocked… and i have to say. holy shit they really did add nothing, and i mean NOTHING new to the fps genera.
no ability’s were unique for the game, no weapons were exotic, gun mechanics were a mix between bf2042 and cod, the map layout looked like it was made by ubisoft.. did i mention the soul less and boring character design?
i unistalled it and never thought of the game again and looks like i was in the majority.
“300 people were affected” made me spit my drink out until i re read it.
It’s an industry correction created fully by the industry itself. They promote live service Fomo with battle passes so, at most, a player can find enough time to play one or two of these games. Eventually they ran out of players. This is a reason these juggernaut costly live service games are failing left and right. A lot of them started development few years ago when the market wasn’t so over saturated so it’s no surprise they are DOA. It’s one of the biggest drawbacks when chasing trends.
Mediocre corporate slop game. Ubisoft is always behind the curve when it launches new games. Permanent trend chasing behavior.
>300 people at Ubisoft were impacted by layoffs following the decision
What’s with the passive voice? Just say “Ubisoft fired 300 people”
Shooters are an uphill battle.
You NEED the player base to bring their friends along in order to just maintain a minimum player base. In order to do that your game needs to be more enjoyable and/or unique than Call of Duty, Fortnite, Overwatch 2, etc. If it’s not then it’ll fail.
i stopped paying attention to new ubisoft and EA games completely, i got beta participation for a couple of games between 2019 and 2023 and they all seemed like good idea on paper but poorly executed with a lot of things either farfetched or lackluster with no in-between
It was pretty good, but players flying around with the meta weapons spamming wall hacks and not being able to hit them due to poor hit reg is a pretty easy way to make me lose intrest
2024 was really full of shit live service lmao
“I’m Lovin’ it”
Over saturation of these types of games lol
I stopped playing this shit because of the bunny hopping… That stuff ruined the game for me, and the blatant hackers. I’m not surprised at all.
Trash game, no one will miss it
I played a fair amount but the main problem was the netcode. I was dying behind walls all the time and it was frustrating, I cant recommend a game when it feels that unfair.
XDefiant was one of those games I was initially looking forward to playing, but when I got my hands on it, I realized just how painfully average it was. The shooting, the abilities, the maps – it all just screamed “mediocre”. That just seems to be Ubisoft’s way. Take an existing idea, and make a worse version of it.
Did it kill cod?
Good.
Created out of trend chasing. They won’t learn and will again and try to make another multiplayer game copying what’s popular a little too late.
Remember when people were harassing them in every comment thread begging them for information on this game and treating it like the hallowed second coming of online FPS Jesus?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
is it bad that I thought that it’s been shut down this entire time?
A huge team with such a high effort and high quality game. And they waste it on a CoD clone…
Imagine if they used all that to make something more original
Let’s be honest, it was worse than MW2, and I mean the one from 2009. Now I know that one was peak CoD but how do you make a game 15 years after that one that plays worse and looks this bland.
Dreams do come true.
try to make money trend chasing only to lose more than u would have avoiding a unique idea or ip to guarantee some return
The biggest problem for me was how long it took to get into a game and how the game would dump you out after every game to matchmake again. So you’d spend 60% of the time staring at a menu or connecting screen. What a godamn waste. This game could have had dedicated servers or a server browser. Instead, your game failed, and you’re all fired, sucks to suck.
It’s a shame the people actually trying to make this game work are getting fired/laid off, and the dumbass executive parasites just move to the next project to ruin.
This game could have been like the finals and be making money hand over fist, instead it’s just a dead farce of a game.
I played it for a bit it was decent but then stopped, I’m assuming everyone did that. it’s crazy after a year to kill it though