XDefiant has been SHUT DOWN less than six months after launch...

[@BigfryTV]

Its no surprise, but alas...XDefiant is XD-Dead...

[@GojiraRising]

XDefinitely Dead.

[@suny1265]

Could you make a Video about GRP ? Ghost Recon Phantoms....it was such a awesome Cover, Skills based shooter.

[@Arhiman93]

2:35 seeing in the background ATTICA HEIGHTS, a map that is 10 YEARS OLD, from ANOTHER GAME, told me all about this game.

[@pakifranks7727]

uhhh who said u? tons of people play it WHY ARE THEY CLOSING IT IF ITS GOING GOOD???

[@DeadmanEmsland]

@@pakifranks7727 Not good enough GG

[@richardcreasey9319]

It feels like a borderline scam that ONLY people who made a purchase within the last 30 days and those purchased the Founder's pack get a refund. There shouldn't be ANY group of players that are excluded from full refunds. I'm not going to lie, if a live-service game announces that it's shutting down in the same year it launches, that should be grounds for full refunds for ANY purchases made, period.

[@SolidBoss7]

Fully agree.

[@GrainOnTheGo]

Pretty good chance they’ll get sued for this. Big games can’t get away with it so easily.

[@DragonWarrior63]

Maybe people should stop giving companies money before the Company has earned it. The only reason we keep getting shit games is because we all keep paying them to shit on us. Then we all come crying to the internet acting all surprised that we keep getting shit on.

[@jdakiller1017]

@@GrainOnTheGo ive seen this type of thing said over and over again, and it never happens lmao.

[@onepunchdoggo]

Funny how all these free to play games just seem like a skin selling scam. The devs seem to focus more on making skins with some of these game than making needed game changes or just game optimization. I can tell most the focus is on making skins instead of giving the players what they want, and then all of a sudden the game gets shut down... I've seen this 4 times now.

[@CodyCombat]

Not putting it on Steam definitely contributed to this. When will they learn?

[@thedeleted1337]

probably never, because of excel spread sheet nerds strictly looking at numbers. "OH WE CAN SAVE 30% IN PROFIT IF WE DON'T LAUNCH ON STEAM" but they'll keep 18k employees on the payroll lmao

[@SaltSpirits]

@@thedeleted1337it’s fucking $100 to launch a game in steam regardless of the size of your company lmfao, what they’re scared of is steam taking 30% of their mtx money, despite the fact that it would probably more than double their actual sales.

[@thedeleted1337]

@@SaltSpirits you just pretty much repeated what I said? lol. Steam gets 30% of any transaction

[@FadeMaster24]

What sales??? 😂😂 They didn't make no damn Money..they had none to share with steam 😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@SaltSpirits

[@GARBO96]

The Ubisoft launcher honestly sucks this is the only application I have on my computer that takes 30 seconds or longer to open from me clicking the home screen icon to it actually popping up multiple times I've timed it taking more than a minute I blame that on the Ubisoft launcher. I also use my computer for 3-D printing rendering and stuff like that no application takes more than 10 seconds to open

[@gabrielabrahao4383]

Ubisoft disgraced the memory of Tom Clancy

[@PaulLacourse]

They can't even make a story that would stand the comparison with Tom Clancy.

[@TTrigg]

Makes you wonder if the Splinter Cell remake is still happening..

[@butchernachos7518]

@@TTrigg Even if it is, it will be an FPS with a Battle Pass.

[@charlescabbage2933]

its not just Tom Clancy , its every single IP they made these days is a disgrace.... Prince of Persia, AC, no Rayman, All Tom clancy games, Far cry is the same game, and their New IP games suck

[@Jon_Gra]

Except it didn't carry the name of Tom Clancy, so what are you on about?

[@Carnyzzle]

This game basically had no chance of lasting between Black Ops 6 and Delta Force

[@Rulody]

Yea when delta force releases xdefiant has no chance of surviving with the shitting netcode and dumpster fire engine that’s not even supposed to be a fps engine

[@DaxterKing]

I imagine the player numbers post Black Ops 6 sealed the coffin, they needed to see how many players it would actually retain vs a new CoD. I imagine the numbers were grim.

[@H0tCh0c0-gr3qe]

cheaters ruined it

[@Micromation]

Delta Force is a no-go for me... Literally gets in conflict with EAC 🙃

[@thejnasty]

@@Micromation if u haven't tried you should, 100% better than any other free game ive played

[@DrDoinks]

That’s funny. About 2 weeks ago, I was cleaning out my near-full SSD and stumbled on XDefiant. I knew the game was “OK” and refused to pay for a $70 COD every year. Curious to see if it was worth keeping, I updated the game and played a couple matches. I was surprised to see that the content was about the same as it was 6 months ago, save an extra map or two, a couple guns. *I promptly uninstalled as I felt the SSD space was more important. I also hedged my bet, thinking “this game will not exist or be relevant within a year”* Just didn’t expect them to shut it down that quickly 😂

[@ginjaninja6963]

Get a bigger SSD

[@susanna8612]

Get Game Pass. COD black opps 6 is good one. Even the campaign is good.

[@DrDoinks]

@@susanna8612 That’s what I did, good idea. Got a year of gamepass ultimate for $45 using Indian codes via Indian VPN too 😂

[@DrDoinks]

@@ginjaninja6963 2tb SSD already. I could buy more, no point in hoarding terabytes of games though. I’m not actively playing 20 different games, no need to make it 20 more with another 2TB

[@angelayala452]

The fact that Ubisoft made this game is the reason why I didn’t try it. I wasn’t willing to be burned by them again (I bet many felt this way too)

[@skaterx4708]

Game was fun for a bit

[@DaxterKing]

I give pretty much every F2P or trial game a shot, you didnt miss much.

[@Grim327]

I can imagine they probably would’ve nearly doubled their original player base if they didn’t use their own shitty launcher

[@JonathanRicher-x6b]

Exactly. Don't even know why they have not tried to port it to Steam first before shutting down. Is it the best game ? Nope. I would've tried it on Steam and maybe jump in once in a while but not on their launcher.

[@tablettablete186]

F A C T S

[@alexanderjordan2506]

The Ubisoft launcher is such garbage, I'll avoid games just because of it.

[@Sierra-77]

Spittin' facts.

[@FadeMaster24]

​@@JonathanRicher-x6bwould still need the launcher even if on steam...do any of you actually have steam????

[@AlwayzFresh]

I would have played this more if I didnt have the memory of a goldfish. I literally forgot it was on my PC because it didnt show up in my steam library.

[@octarius6306]

And nothing of value has been lost

[@Crest6680]

The game is amazing. Plenty is lost

[@Exhalted1]

@@Crest6680 The game is not, it was a mish mash of assets from r6 and other ubi games

[@ItsDeadlock]

"15 million players" probably 14.99 million of them downloaded it because it was free, played one game and went " This is dogshit" Then uninstalled it. No one cares about how many people have played it. Concurrent players is the only stat that matters. Studios don't seem to understand or hope that the people investing in them don't understand.

[@tuananhhoang7113]

Concurrent players matter .... Especially for a free to play game.

[@Riddler1212]

Yeah I downloaded on Xbox, played for about 3 matches and uninstalled. It just felt like a weird janky Overwatch, CoD crossover.

[@8BitShadow]

sadly there's still a lot of investors out there that don't know the difference or are wilfully arrogant to the fact. If you ever even *once* see anything talk about downloads/visits in public PR, that's literally the most clear sign you could possibly get that they play the 'investor first; player last' mentality. Which goes without saying should be avoided like the plague. Because it's a plague. thankfully, age catches up. Just a matter of time, they'll have to change weather they like it or not.

[@o0lWinterl0o]

Sounds like you haven't even played the game, it's actually pretty good, definitely better then CoD, kind of sad it's getting shutdown.

[@superman1875]

The problem is everyone kept saying they wanted old school cod and they made something worse, that felt and looked like it came from 2008 and somehow couldn’t make the netcode and hit detection work. Saw someone say it was fresh and innovative lol. I kept the game installed in hopes they’d keep updating it and making it work and make it better. Similar to R6 but they didn’t even want to try to do that

[@Billy-bc8pk]

The people calling it "fresh" are young gamers who did not grow up with gaming. To them, the current era of sloptitude feels "fresh" because they do not know what good games are.

[@bobbyhillthuglife]

​@@Billy-bc8pkas I get older I find this to be the case with everything, games, music, movies, literature, fashion, whatever. People who remember how things used to be and can compare it to how things are now gradually disappear and are replaced with people who have no memory of how things were in the past and just assume that what they have now is better. There's no point arguing with them either, because they literally don't know what they're talking about. If I say something was better in 2008, I can know that because I was around in 2008 and I'm around now and I can compare and contrast. A younger person just can't do that and so they are easy pickings for marketing departments.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@bobbyhillthuglife Yup, all the people saying Cyberpunk 2077 is "brilliant" and the "best open world game ever" just makes me facepalm so bad. Most of these people never played GTA IV or Sleeping Dogs, and those games aren't even that old. But you're right about it being that way for all of pop-culture. The amount of normies I come across who defend a lot of modern woke stuff is becoming disheartening as more and more people grow up only knowing and experiencing sloptitude. If you try to inform them otherwise they just double down. The zeitgeist is deifnitely doing a fine job of converting the younger generation into chattel.

[@Micromation]

​@@Billy-bc8pkgamers that grew up with Xbox360 still to this day don't know what a good game is 😂

[@shrilityy]

you wanna talk about how most fps games recently have had hitreg issues? bo6, xdefiant, apex, delta force. it’s a tragedy what’s happening to the genre

[@FUJIIDEW]

Love how everyone sucked this game off on its beta, it obviously needed more content back then, and to call it a CoD killer was just foolishness, or paid sponsorships made their way in and got people to say whatever Ubi wanted them to.

[@princesofthepower3690]

They sucked it off because of no SBMM btw!

[@Lornext]

Deserved I am so tired of all these bubblegum quirky Marvel-ass characters and world design.

[@danmcisaac1601]

"They're so funny and fun and cool! Isn't that what the kids like these days? Look at fortnite guys! WE NEED TO BE LIKE FORTNITE GUYS!!!!!" - Average AAA game boardroom.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

This. Give me a gritty, grizzled looking vet with some cool, grounded weapons. ALl these quirky stuff is a huge turnoff.

[@Amadourrr]

@@Billy-bc8pk instant eerie World At War menu flashbacks

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@Amadourrr Yup, loved the Battlefield 3 menu too; that was probably the most bad@$$ Battlefield menu. Battlefield 4 had a good one too.

[@Vaizen07]

I played the closed beta and I could tell that it was one of those games that wouldn't be around for long. It looked and felt like a generic shooter from 2016.

[@lewis6478]

I think that's what it was meant to get lol and that's ehy the people who played it at the stsrt loved it , ultimately lack up updates n content killed the game

[@FadeMaster24]

​@@lewis6478no we didn't like it

[@lewis6478]

@@FadeMaster24 you didn't like it mean lmao

[@FadeMaster24]

@@lewis6478 according to stats..and Mark...we didn't like it..what's why it's getting buried in the desert

[@lewis6478]

@FadeMaster24 notice how i said at the start bud what did you expect from a ubisoft game that's free to play , the content updates were too slow simple as that if the game wasn't good or enjoy first couple season wouldn't of had millions of people playing

[@LeSkinner]

Who would've though a game with its only selling point being "Is not call of duty" won't last

[@toptiertech7291]

😂 that was their whole marketing. And so many gamers don’t understand that what they see in KZbin comments isn’t what the average gamer believes or thinks

[@LightTrack-]

Let's just not expect Ubisoft to make anything decent in the future. It is known they cannot make good games anymore or since whenever you feel like.

[@whatasaverl6456]

I swear in the next 10 years the average funding for a game will be 700 million with its life expectancy being 4 weeks😂 studios have absolutely no clue anymore

[@kmplays7468]

This might be a hot take, but I feel that there were 3 things that killed XDefiant: 1. It being labelled a Call of Duty killer. Anytime a game is labelled a "killer" of a dominator in it's genre, the bar is immediately raised to the quality of the latter. XDefiant, felt clunky compared to COD and even old at some points. 2. Since a large number of players trying the game would be former or current COD players, the mechanics and gameplay would have to be as simple as the same. And to me, all the different heroes and abilities and ultimate abilities just made it complicated. We enjoy COD because of the illusion of a level playing field, and a relatively simple class system. On XDefiant you had this regular class system and your hero's abilities to understand. This gave the game a learning curve, when most of us just wanted to jump in and shoot stuff and blow other stuff up. 3. That god awful UI was painful to deal with.

[@GojiraRising]

Anything labeled a (insert franchise name here) "Killer" it's immediately cursed.

[@Razer5542]

4. Lack of marketing. 5. Only playable on Ubisoft connect.

[@SolidBoss7]

You could stop at “felt clunky.” It was at best nearly access single A production. Nothing even remotely enjoyable about this game. I played it as someone with experience in an insane number of franchises and it really wasn’t ANYTHING special AT ALL

[@rascoehunter3608]

Now that you mentioned it I honestly can't think of any examples of a franchise killer actually succeeding.

[@danielv.8915]

​@@Razer55426. Massive lack of content and progression. People in this time and age need their dopamine fix. They need constant inputs to keep them engaged, otherwise they'll just leave. Lack of constant updates and anything to work towards besides camo grind definitely were one of the, if not the main, nails in the coffin.

[@derp3305]

Locked behind the shitty Uplay Launcher and never released it on Steam.........................................................................................................................................

[@ChungSeiker1st]

Yeah, I've got it installed, the launcher, and I still didn't bother to play that. Tbh I'm not into ubisofy games anymore, they are sloppy as heck

[@qrxszn]

it’ll still require ubisoft connect

[@hankteve3143]

Imagine if BigFry had the opportunity to interview Yves Gilmount. What a convo that would be!

[@bork750]

Nowadays, if it doesn't make Fortnite money they don't consider it a success

[@reveriesduh]

Love or hate it but 99% of studios are incapable of making a game that has consistent quality and updates as Fortnite. There’s a reason it’s still dominating closing on a decade since release. Fortnite is a safe bet, if I spend $300 on FN right now I am almost 100% sure that I’ll still have those items in 5 years from now. A Ubisoft title? Or any newly released game, even CoD? No, lol.

[@NezzyKnowzzz]

@@reveriesduh them closing the live service game crew than opening a new live service while people were still annoyed they can't play a game they invested time in lol !! brah not only did they do a ad for call of duty but they made people want to play need for speed instead lol !! so basically pushed their communities to activision and ea lol

[@RedBeardMortis]

that intro was ice fuckin cold Fry

[@elbardthawne7568]

As a Siege player, Siege is what keep Ubisoft not fucked up in live service market, but they still treated Siege like shit. The server is still like it's a fucking beta server 10 years ago.

[@ADevinG]

I really wanted something to put pressure on COD.

[@lonebalpha]

This is so sad because xdefiant was really not a bad game . I personally like this game a lot and this really sucks to see a game with potential go out like this . Suicide squad isn’t getting shut down but XDefiant is

[@starstruckp4808]

The people on the CoD-hate bandwagon are awfully quiet after being BTFO so hard, you can hear the pavement being cracked after they landed on the floor, lmao.

[@Red_Lion2000]

they are both shit, you are a mug if you buy cod.

[@hannu1469]

Weird part is I haven't even heard about this game

[@ericknunez8069]

Because Ubisoft didnt use a single cent in marketing.

[@billhicks3415]

At it's core, it's a solid shooter. Sad to see it go.

[@chrisville004]

Now that I read this comment I realize I don’t think I’ve ever seen an xdefiant advertisement

[@vando6468]

🏆 A trophy for missing slop games by a slop game company from France.

[@kevinkev1530]

Makes no sense, have no money to the advertising team 😅😅😅😅

[@VedenEye]

Bro Whipped out the villain laugh at the beginning

[@onemorescout]

Since the news, my sub feed has had, in order, a stream that felt like a funeral, a “Fight, Fight, Fight” sort of video, and now your victory lap over this game’s grave. Balanced, as all things should be.

[@allpraisewebb1142]

Makes you wonder how truthful where they about the actual player count 🤔

[@brandonzzz1]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 but people online keep telling me this is the call of you the killer and I was laughing my ass off the whole god damn time 😭😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

[@EclipseDarknessX]

You’re right. No matter what they put out, no matter how big of a success, they just have too much overhead costs, too many teams and too much happening.

[@dreadassassin3545]

The funny thing is the beta they allowed everyone to play worked better, had better servers and hit boxes. When the full release came out the servers were somehow worse than rainbow six siege. I love R6 but the hit boxes are questionable at best and I have really good internet. Another thing about Xdefiant is at launch it felt so dated and clunky that most people like me and my friends dropped it within a month. We waited to hear updates on the servers and general gameplay that when they finally released one, none of us cared anymore. You can only have a game be broken for so long if your goal is long term players. I personally haven't played COD multiplayer in years since MW2019 and before that I was playing Ghosts, BO2 and AW. Companies like Blizzard and Ubisoft have forgotten how and what it means to make a good product. It's sad really.

[@PresidentJ]

There was never really a selling point to this game. The only selling point this game had according to fanboys was "no SBMM" as if that's literally the only thing that mattered to them. I don't care if it had no SBMM, the game itself felt like shit to play. Your character was too sluggish but at the same time felt like they were on ice skates. There was no content in the game worth grinding for and the netcode was all over the place. Having "no SBMM" is not a selling point. There actually has to be substance with the game.

[@judyfps5059]

Who could have ever guessed that the Ubislop COD clone would fail.

[@gumsterify]

I put 60 hours into XD on launch and never touched it again. When BOE6 released i knew it was over XD.

[@BlackTearsYT]

No surprise despite all the people on Twitter acting like this game was fine. Even if the netcode was perfect, it just wasn't a very good game. I'm glad some people had fun with it but obviously that's a minority. The idea of a late 2000s to early 2010s arcade FPS is cool, but it's completely at odds with and undone by the hero abilities that end up making this game feel like a sloppy knockoff of both Black Ops 2 and Overwatch haphazardly cobbled together, while doing neither of those subgenres justice and making the game impossible to balance properly or feel satisfying to play for players of the two subgenres. I was just thinking the other day that it's sad this is the direction Ubisoft went with their games. After Metal Gear Solid ended back in 2015, the table was set for Splinter Cell to come back and just dominate the military stealth shooter genre. I honestly don't even think it needed to be a Sam Fisher game, I think even a spinoff with different characters would've done well assuming the gameplay was good.

[@FoxWJK]

I like to test the shotguns in pvp games and if they suck that's generally not going to improve and a huge sign to me that its not gonna feel fun if the shotguns arent fun and viable. Even if i dont main a shotgun. SHotguns are a big challenge for devs and if they can get that right then it might be a good time.

[@odin4289]

literally all they needed to do was go in on the BO2 knockoff and it would have done better. It was marketed as a return to the classics but played more like a clunky modern cod with hero abilities. Xdefiant had some fundamental issues that shouldn't be an issue in 2024, but hero shooter slop was the main reason I didn't bother playing beyond the first beta. Maybe Mark will leave Ubi and go the indie route, but it's hard to speculate.

[@MrGuito63]

People keep talking about the 15 million players but i dont think thats a efficient metric. Its a free game, people try it for 10/15 min, unistall and those players go into the 15 million. It was marketed as, basically, a free to play cod multiplayer so of course its going to attract a lot of players

[@mbf6160]

Bruh they never fixed the hit detection the gun fights were all over the place and it felt buggy as hell , I mean it had a lot of pot but damn it ran weird bruh

[@IJTFILMSI]

Not surprising. Anything Ubisoft is involved in is essentially DoA or will die soon after.

[@FadeintotheShadows]

I'm glad Ubisoft decided to shelve Splinter Cell. Because who would want this version of Ubisoft managing that IP? No. Just no. They are done. Cooked. Finished.

[@BilisiFunfun]

Being the best Goobislop game is like being the tallest member of the Lollipop Guild.

[@kuduku7614]

I just want Division 1 but more realistic and with more survival aspects. And my money would be yours Ubisoft.

[@aiden8834]

I feel like the reason Mark Rubin kept denying that the game was dying, even though he knew it was, is because he believed that if he kept denying it, it might somehow be saved. But I don't know why people are shocked, we knew the game wasn't going to last even if it did come out summer of 2023 like it was originally supposed to. The fanbase of X is low-key partly to blame as well. They kept calling it a ‘COD killer,’ and we all know that labeling any FPS as a ‘COD killer’ tends to jinx the game into failure.

[@BrashTheStampede]

So he purposely mislead. Also i agree with every single thing you said. Xdefiant small community hate for cod turned bad karma on them very quickly 😂

[@aiden8834]

@ They won't learn though, soon another "COD killer" will come and they’ll jinx it just how they jinxed X😂 When I said the game would die a couple months after release in 2023 during the beta they jumped me and called me a hater 😂

[@BrashTheStampede]

@aiden8834 me too bro. I played it early....game would've lived just like ironsight lives without tryna throw shade at the giant.

[@RQUKOfficial]

Ubisoft needs a huge shakeup. Get rid of the clown family in charge, get people in who actually care and who won't blame the gamers for the poor sales of their cookie cutter games. I can't remember that last time I played a Ubisoft game (maybe about 4 hours of FC6 on Gamepass?).

[@FoxWJK]

theres a more indepth video about the family floating around. They are intentionally driving things into the ground to fight investors and try to maintain control or something idk. They can't do anything right since after the first division. The first division was their last good game in my mind.

[@BeardedFire]

since they cant keep a online game running, maybe they should fall back to single player games and try to make decent games within the single player/coop category... saw this coming a mile away

[@Lenariet]

These online games could persist if we players were able to fully host servers again as was normal decades ago. I could for example probably download a huge bunch of Source-based shooters and HL2 mods or the very first Battlefield 1942 right this moment and get to play with others even though official support for all of these titles has ceased a long time ago. Because these games were made differently.

[@BeardedFire]

@@Lenariet for sure, but these devs apparently dont want to do this so thats the issue aswell, if they dont want to do that, get into making some good SP games, but look as Assassins Creed, its not really there either so . who know...

[@bobbyhillthuglife]

Even their single player games have battle passes and are full of microtransactions

[@BeardedFire]

@@bobbyhillthuglife yup. Making the single player games they have absolutely trash and none wants to really play those

[@ATG3192]

As long as Guillemot is in charge, Ubisoft will continue to fail, and as a longtime Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, Prince of Persia, and Assassin's Creed fan, the sooner the company begins to truly die, the better. Unfortunately, this was such a forseeable outcome that i can't believe anyone bought into the game.

[@Ç0òlAl3n]

Sad, just SAD. Pre-Launch it had so much potential, but they didn’t market it at all.

[@nogi2167]

From what I understand, the highest tier founders pack had a promise of “all year one and two content” and since they didn’t make it to year two, that could be breach of contract if they didn’t refund. The other founders packs didn’t make that promise, so technically, if you bought those, you got everything you paid for.

[@FadeMaster24]

Probably a reason why they never put an red cent into advertising. They knew the game was 💩 and didnt want to waste resources. Mark knew as well that his ass was in the line

[@fr4me.01]

My question is.. when ubisoft fails.. who will even care? I haven't played a ubi game.. in a long long long... long time.

[@taven580]

And just like that they pocket the money people put into this 😂😂😂😂😂 refunds only for purchases in last 30 days

[@30_JD]

I actually enjoyed playing this game....fun colorful and varied maps. Gunplay was solid. Abilities and modes were fun. Sure nothing ground breaking, but what a change in pace and not sweating in COD....

[@CarlosRodriguez-vl9wq]

2:55 LMAO please Bigfry never change. I always come back to the channel to see your comedic roasting.

[@YlgPeace]

This is not good news, cod now has a monopoly on the arcade arena shooter genre and will do as it pleases.

[@boocomban]

It has always been a monopoly on the arcade shooter genre... COD always has been the best selling arcade shooter since 2004... Even the worst COD have more selling copies than other shooter games on the market... COD will always be COD and it will always be there as it is simplicity in mechanics and everyone can jump in and have a quick match and that is is.

[@Bubbles_055]

Tbh I liked the game but not putting it on steam + the netcode being shit, this kinda felt inevitable.

[@reapergrim1380]

The game was fun…. Was a simple shooter, just lacked a good grind system. They messed up camo grind, progression rewards, and nothing to really play for. Sad to see it go

[@SpottedHares]

Wow, it was promised that disbanding teams was only a beta thing and it would be available in the full release, then it was pushed to season one, then some big pass season three. Now it will never exist a feature promise for launch will never exist after being continuously promised to be right around the corner.

[@Razer5542]

"We want something else than Call of Duty for once" "Ubisoft giving people something else for once" "No, not like that"

[@SolidBoss7]

Literally. And so many people glazed this dumpster fire. Xdefiant was worse that concord and people don’t bandwagon hate it like they did concord. Wonder why that is.

[@Razer5542]

@@SolidBoss7 I just find it funny how people always complain that they want something else for once and then when there is something else on the market (Even when it's a subpar game at best), they completely ignore it while proceeding to complain that there is nothing else 😂

[@nhilist5774]

The net code was abysmal. So "no not like that" was a very apt statement lol

[@Sparruh9]

@@SolidBoss7it was not worse than concord😂 it honestly is a pretty good game but it had no meaningful reasons to keep playing

[@SolidBoss7]

@@Sparruh9 I disagree. Did you play concord or only assume because again, it got bandwagon hated on, that it’s worse? Concord had much higher production value, polish, voice acting, cutscenes, and a more enjoyable gameplay loop. Yet because it had some “woke” qualities it got witch hunted. Granted I really couldn’t care less about either game as they were both trash, I just think it’s funny how XD really was worse in every imaginable way except for maybe gunplay in general.

[@theimprovisedmanfriends204]

I think it should end up as a playable arcade machine in some future Ubisoft game.

[@brown2889]

UBIsoft needs to just stop! Subscriptions, and micro transactions have been like heroin to them. I think they have a problem.

[@TechStache]

I never thought that it would kill anything, but it was definitely fun regardless of the "quality"compared to other shooters

[@raevod6361]

I don't know why but the first closed beta they had i felt like this game was gold, it was so fun, then it all when downhill till the release

[@B4mza]

Oh man would love to see the look on COD Fathers face rn 😂

[@jakepark9783]

aka blame goofy 🤣🤡

[@GamesforCykits]

I feel bad for all the people who put money into the game man it sucks

[@skylerbenoit1103]

Shut down at my birthday? Very rough…

[@amountless0]

Making a COD competitor is mad easy. Maybe don't make it a fucking hero shooter on some random ass extra launcher. Make some simple ass camos (that look like camouflage) to grind for that are NOT solid fucking colors (like in The Finals | XDefiant doesn't even have ANYTHING before gold).

[@TheUsurper3ren]

DUDE, LITERALLY!! I would play a CoD competitor if there was one that was actually good. Warface is mid, Ironsight is mid. It's like no one even understands how to actually do it, even though the bare minimum blueprint was established with CoD 4

[@misahayase8854]

the game was designed using a game engine from one of Ubisoft's failed mmo / rpg's, so that engine wasn't designed for FPS. On release net code and hit reg was so bad, after a while, most players left (including the group I play COD with). They couldn't fix it, and had to bring in 3rd party devs with experience on that engine, by the second patch, but they could only pull off if the game detected hit markers, so it would kill both players or let both live. They called it something equal trade . . . Black ops 6 on beta had issues but the netcode / hit reg worked, Xdef beta and release had wonky hit reg and if it was fixable they could have done it before release, or even after release, in time to keep the playerbase, but couldn't, b/c the problem was engine related. Then the Xdef defenders had the audacity to say to players "xdef is old school and skill level so its not netcode / hit reg issues, its cuz you suck and can't aim. ANd then you and your friends rage quit." Even Mark was quoted, "If you struggle with the game you can move on." With all the issues COD has, at least on FPS basics, it works. Xdefiant couldn't even get FPS basics, to work consistently so the players let them know. I think Ubisoft forced Mark to recycle the engine as a money saver. And Mark's ego was writing checks his body (team) couldn't cash, and he probably thought he could fix his way to FPS that engine to be the COD Killer. His resume would read, "Mark: Created original MW COD and defined the FPS genre. Also Mark: Killed COD and brought a new game to become the new FPS standard". Plus I have a feeling he wanted to Activision to hurt after they let him go and Xdef was the key. Xdef initially would have been fun if it worked, as it had a classic old MW feel, and the lack of SBMM really was a draw to a tune of 15 million player base at the height. On top of that lack of content, and half the maps savvy players could spawn camp certain lanes and prevent those players from leaving. On maps requiring capping, if team had a bad part of the map, they could never cap the 3rd point b/c the border sat close to spawn or on spawn so spawning team could "defend" that cap location forever. And lack of content, but content takes a backseat to a working game. Then there was balancing issues. I remember our squad going up against a whole team of the healers, and they were invincible with the hit reg, the constant heals and their ultimate, which could be timed since each member had the same ult.

[@fuckadsyoutube]

after how they handled HYPERSCAPE i cant say im surprised

[@Xenoonmobile]

Punk rock moshpit meets early EOS

[@momojr3153]

I am convinced Ubisoft don't like money. I am a HUGE Ghost Recon fan and the next game is getting ready to come out and Ubisoft is like "We are returning to a first person perspective" the community is like NO Do what you did in Wildlands and do that BETTER! Ubisoft hmmmmm NAH we go first person.

[@Ace-Intervention]

I remember when this was the Call of Duty killing😂😂😂

[@ARQ0091]

i think ubisoft should focus on single player games and thats it

[@janky477]

I didnt even get a chance to play it before it shut down 😂 Im so happy this conpany is going under soon.

[@mahkhardy8588]

Average player count on BF2042 is roughly 7000, and they EA has not shut that one down yet. Just signs of a company running out of money fast.

[@subjectc7505]

Because they tried with 2042 and it's pretty fun now.

[@onemorescout]

XDefiant PC servers died out completely the week before this announcement was made, I assure you XDefiant had less than 7000 players before shutdown. I was facing matchmaking times I hadn’t seen since those last few months of Shatterline with a playercount of 150.

[@BrashTheStampede]

You pay for bf2042 duh

[@tornike550]

Ubi shut down TC's Ghost Recon Phantoms in 2017 after a year of neglect, just to focus about R6S and cut the "losses". You can see the remnants of GRP in XDdefiant such as maps and characters, yet it has never dawned on them to remake it. GRP, formerly known as Ghost Recon Online was unique by its ganeplay dynamic and maps, i am sure it would do better than just another FPS, yet UBI is smelling their farts

[@rodolfohernandez2702]

Lack of content and Lacked of Players killed XDefiant, Funny Yesterday I Returned to XDefiant after 2 months of not playing and an hour later the message of XDefiant shuting down arrived. I think it's time for Ubisoft to hit the Sleep Mode for quite sometime.

[@fanmademunkvideosofficial]

Ubisoft is done period

[@RGBeanie]

And nothing of value was lost...

[@bacaveli]

There was ZERO marketing for this game. Never brought it to steam. Almost feels like Ubisoft wanted this game to fail.

[@PuddinTime69]

For real. It’s almost like the fps devs got together and intentionally screwed the community

[@gloomsouls]

Ubisoft needs a complete wipe.

[@elitefirewolf2703]

I never played the game and only knew it existed through bigfry. But from what I've seen, it looks like not a single gun has any recoil whatsoever.

[@l.s.colstonmusic5099]

Game launched 7 months ago mate

[@khaledabbas3210]

Expected, it was a frankenstein of a Game. Even R6 is no longer the hardcore tactical shooter it was before. They need to get back to how things was, Division 1, Original R6 etc..

[@TTrigg]

I dont think we'll ever see any new Rayman games..or Beyond Good & Evil 2 for that matter

[@subjectc7505]

Ah, Ubisoft is that girl who can't stay in a relationship and post Internet quotes on her story ☠️

[@devilmyke]

Here's the thing it wasn't a bad effort at all I just felt it was a bit unpredictable what speciality you would be against each time..would it be take more bullets character..would it be shield character..would it be see through character..you get my drift

[@bsaaxtyfoon143]

black ops 6 was the final nail in the coffin

[@sebban0011]

XDefiant and Concord have two things in common. Both games tried to compete with two other major games (Call of Duty and Overwatch), two games people are already too invested into, to bother go play something similar. Concord and XDefiant were doomed to fail already when the development started..

[@FR4NKM4N]

There was no saving this game from the start when they called it Tom Clancy.

[@BuriedInInsanity]

Hey at least It wasnt 2 weeks after Release ... Looking at you concord

[@FallenActual]

shocking, anyway.

[@brizzy1237]

I'm waiting to do the Ubisoft grave dance... And I can't wait!

[@DweebleNW]

Lost out of the division heartlands for this.

[@nestlesnipes8353]

Shout out to mark rubin and fhe devs who worked on this game especially the map designers best time I’ve had on a arena shooter in years it’s a shame to see it shut down

[@cellulater1998]

I enjoyed this game, but forgot about it because I fucking hate their launcher. It logs me out everytime I launch it, so I just don't log back in and forget about it.

[@RoninOkami]

Chalked - called it.

[@TobyWild]

The art is great, the game works, the code works... the engineers doing the work are doing GOOD work, but they are the ones that will get shafted. Meanwhile it's the direction from the top down that's causing failure after failure.

[@jamaicanator27]

The “severance” was probably a $5 Dunkin’ Donuts gift card

[@ethanesslinger9805]

What a surprise, totally didn't see this coming from the reveal trailer 😐

[@Nate-kc2wf]

6:37 Thank you no one else would say that out loud edit 10:10 well said