XDefiant is shutting down June, 3 2025.

[@PrestigeisKey]

XDefiant is officially shutting down and servers are going offline on June 3rd 2025. Over 250 employees are set to be laid off before the holiday season and that I find very sad. What do you think they could have done to helped the game over time? I'm disappointed that content released and trickled so slowly considering how long the title has been out. I do wonder why they're shutting this game down but Skull and Bones gets to stay online.

[@LIVE781REDRUM]

What a birthday present for me. Dang it's sad. Yeah challenges is where it's at

[@colekleijnen2060]

Advertise it! This game was doomed to fail from the start. Practically Shadow released and basically relied on word of mouth to promote it.

[@jupabafl6837]

I called it from day one, and people called it the COD killer 😀😁😂

[@animethighsandgames5100]

Literally nothing.This game was only taken seriously because cod was in a terrible space at that time. So what happens when Activision reverts the stupid changes they've made?Obviously, players are going to go back to new call of duty. I feel bad for the devs, man.

[@animethighsandgames5100]

Plus, the community helped kill this game when the new cod came out. A lot of people didn't even bother with this game after praising it so much. Even the cod youtubers and streamers eventually stopped talking about this game

[@saynotololi]

How is skull in bones still available? 😂

[@DeadUponAll]

Skull and Bones is actually fun compared to XDefient, but Skull and Bones isn’t fun enough to justify buying it, if it was free to play like XDefiant, I would definitely play it. But yeah i enjoyed the beta.

[@Vondekirk]

@@DeadUponAll You are braindead if you actually believe that

[@TheFallinhalo]

@@DeadUponAll ehhh i dont play skull and bones, but i wonder if it has to do with the fact that when youre starving for pirate games, and youre only other option is Sea of Thieves, i assume youll play pretty much anything given to you, even to some extent go back to playing Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag. contrast it with just how overly saturated the Shooter market is, and even the Arena shooter market. and ya XDefiant i can see not doing so hot. while a universally trashed game like S&B is actually doing fine.

[@Kazasia-_-]

Skull and bones stayed because of a deal they have with a certain country

[@seanpr92]

@@saynotololi skull and bones is a AAAA title

[@bladerain4773]

Ubi kept releasing dumpster fire games, and now they are cutting their losses. I would not be surprised if the whole company craters within 3 years.

[@PrestigeisKey]

I guess the rumors are Sony could buy all of Ubisoft next

[@Masochistickoala]

i hope ubisoft doesn't get bought it really needs to sink and serve as a lesson as harsh as that sounds and all the employees it would ruin but the exec's and management at ubi really ruined their company from head to toe

[@ermtea]

microsoft might scoop em up before sony does

[@lstsoul4376]

Mst likely tencent

[@peoduction6068]

@@Masochistickoala ubisoft NEEDS to be bought by Sony so we can finally get new Splinter Cell games, AC games that arent RPG downgrades, new Rainbow Six games, new Ghost Recon games, new Prince of Persia games. Ubisoft has too many IPs it doesnt use. Sony would know what to do with them

[@xDrunkenxSovietx]

This game reminded me of Black Ops 4 it was a mix between an arcade shooter and a hero shooter I’m really mad to see this game go considering how many hours I put into it.

[@Uknown76]

Ubisoft really had an opportunity to cook here and they blew it what a shame

[@ps1746]

Don’t wanna be a hater, but this was kind of expected imo. They pandered to the wrong audience. Nothing about this game screams old school style cod, but rather bo4, which I don’t think fans from the ps3 /xbox 360 were very fond of, at least I’m not.

[@TTTG1000]

Facts

[@paradoxinraindrops141]

Not wrong honestly. It was a hero shooter, with create a class. Hardly the OG CoD game everyone was hoping for. Also… I flat out never liked how fast the TTK and movement was. It was too fast and the servers were always out of whack.

[@erikbarajas2221]

Duh

[@Rexifly64]

Go play Ironsight, it feels BO2

[@jupabafl6837]

BO4 came out for PS4

[@sansslayer7592]

Wow i was not expecting this at all

[@mi-gato-no-goku]

Are you stevie wonder because many people saw this coming after they released the game

[@oxfordfox9210]

Shutup kid

[@loser108108]

This is what happens when there's no content in a game to keep players interested beyond promises they never followed through with. Having nothing to work towards, except for outrageously high Weapon Levels for singular camos, doesn't give players a reason to log back on again. Promising Prestige Levels and never delivering, while constantly promising more and more content they never gave us, just constantly saying "We're working on it, please be patient." Just enforced even further that players didn't have a reason to come back UNTIL we got the content we were promised. Honestly, it just comes down with the lack of things to work towards. The gameplay was amazing, the matches were fun, and everything played well, but not only does COD exist but there are plenty of other shooters one can play that actually gives us stuff to work towards while XDefiant practically begged its player base to have faith and cope with the fact they weren't ever able to accomplish what they promised.

[@jcaashby3]

Did they ever even add persistent servers?? I know the combat record never updated. The game just felt like a indie dev team with very little funding. Felt like ubisoft backed it with minimal resources but expected to get big returns. The gameplay was decent besides the bunny hopping. But man were the camos and skins lackluster

[@kino7741]

I really hate that everytime something is called a "cod killer" it fails at this point calling anything that is just pulling bad luck into it.

[@Kendog]

The cod community was the one that brought it up

[@jamesb8757]

Did anyone official statements about the game say “cod killer”? No that’s something people made up. The internet does this all the time

[@Kendog]

@ that’s exactly why the community that made and claimed that it was a cod killer like the cod community for example is part of the blame

[@SgtTankDempsey]

Every time someone says this Game Killer it kills themselves, especially during Halo Peak always saying some PS3 game is a Halo Killer and it Halo proved them wrong

[@TGA_Gaming2.0]

Unfortunately will always happen just like GTA Clones

[@tachonka69]

there goes cod killer number 4

[@TheRayExperience]

What were the other three?

[@nathanh2725]

Bf2042 was one

[@SgtTankDempsey]

​@@nathanh2725 After BF4 it stopped being a COD Killer

[@nathanh2725]

@SgtTankDempsey none of them are actually cod killers that's the point.

[@steel749]

​@nathanh2725 the only one that can kill COD is COD. No one comes close

[@dark_of_twilight]

It's so unfortunate that CoD lost a potential competitor. I never expected this game to be a cod killer, but I was hoping this game would have enough of a following to make Activision question their current approach to matchmaking in CoD. Maybe it was unlikely or not, but Ubisoft has now made that impossible

[@Masochistickoala]

lol, ubisoft does this always, hyperscape laughing from the grave, they never put any effort into games that have so much potential but churn out assassins creed slop and their "AAAA" skulls n bones or whatever that dumpster was.

[@RocketDraco47]

Man I really enjoyed Hyperscape 😭 now when you jump on the game it’s just a empty wasteland idk why it’s still in the store honestly

[@unofficialmeme5972]

Ubisoft really are the masters of artificial hype.

[@lilphantom3459]

Rip hyperscape that game actually could’ve been really good with more content and support

[@Surepeacooler]

Quadruple A lol

[@RunnyElephant44]

The problem was they didnt add any content it just felt dead

[@marvynjeanbaptiste3206]

This. Why would I want to play the beta for the 7th time when I already grinded everything and got resetted

[@DEANDRE_DTS]

Ubisoft couldn’t afford to they are going bankrupt

[@luchollandsyd]

Lasted longer than concord

[@SuperBatman-jr6rp]

But not longer than Hyperscape!😂

[@nestormelendez9005]

​@@SuperBatman-jr6rplonger than concord still

[@StoneAquatics]

I’m crying I played and enjoyed the game much

[@aIi8n]

grow ah pair

[@YsIii-g7p]

Cry into this 🍵

[@felwinter7883]

Crying over a game? Please go touch grass

[@DainRiffgin89]

Besides the reasons you mentioned in the video, another big factor in XDefiant’s downfall was its notoriously bad netcode. The hit registration was spotty at best and infuriating at worst, with lots of hit markers without damage and dying around corners. Even in the October post, Mark is still saying, “Don’t worry guys! We’re still fixing the netcode!” which is very worrying given that this should’ve been fixed before the game launched. Honestly the game was in a no-win situation: it had already been delayed way too many times, and any more delays would’ve hurt initial launch numbers, even if it gave us a more complete and polished product. I figured XDefiant wouldn’t last (I believed the shutdown rumors given wait times), but I didn’t think it would be sunsetted. Man, Ubisoft is desperate, isn’t it?

[@Goth0holic]

We will probably never have no sbmm in a multiplayer shooter ever again but ot be fair if it wasny enough for xdefiant it wasnt gonna be enough for any game

[@Medo-o8l]

Just marketing with 'no SBMM' wasn't enough. It didn't have a campain or any other 3rd mode, that was boring for me. BO6 tuned the SBMM even more up, to show they can still get away with it. The nail on the coffin was: It's published by Ubisoft, one of the worst companies right now.

[@jasonadersonwedion9874]

The game is super sweaty 🥵

[@TheFallinhalo]

@@jasonadersonwedion9874 which is ironic, given all those who whine about CODS SBMM is because "our matches are too sweaty" and yet they play like total sweatlords in a non SBMM game. pretty much gives it away on their end, that it was never because they wanted casual fun matches, they just didnt want targets that can shoot back.

[@xdCrispy-Crisss]

@@TheFallinhalothere are memes about people being sent to the “unemployed” section for BO6. It’s not about wanting to crush tomato cans, it’s about having a fair and consistent experience.

[@DEANDRE_DTS]

@@jasonadersonwedion9874XDefiant not really sweaty at all tho Neither is COD really …people are just average at the game and aren’t bots

[@jasonadersonwedion9874]

@@TheFallinhalo exactly

[@WatchfulWolf]

XDefiant was a hero shooter with Overwatch influence. Wild and wacky characters with no real sense of unlocks or progressions, as the camos were ridiculous with requirements, with none to earn along the way to the mastery ones, then there was no real in depth challenge system with a whole bunch of challenges and rewards. Being that Overwatch style, the maps are all small-ish, strict 3 laned. I'd like to a see a proper military shooter, actual soldiers, 3 laned maps but not so strict and with variety and size differences. This is why I didn't play it much

[@j.m.a6045]

I didn't even play this game but I still hoped It would pop off. I want more competition in this space.

[@SquirtMac17]

Here’s the actual reason: the lack of innovating and interesting monetization. Even the camos and “blueprints” looked lackluster. For a FREE to play game you have to hit it out the park with that stuff or you’re bleeding dry. It felt like they didn’t think about how that was gonna look before launching.

[@edensseven3524]

What we need is a cod alternative with anime girls. Trust me, it will sell.

[@KeepTheAngerFlowing]

Your cooking.

[@0uttaS1TE]

Strinova or whatever it's called is basically that.

[@msandifort22]

Why anime 'girls'

[@xdCrispy-Crisss]

@@msandifort22because hotness sells.

[@MrAjking808]

@@msandifort22because it sells to pedos & weirdos who don’t get girls in real life

[@zachpolan8719]

Honestly game had very good gameplay but without kill streaks it always felt like I was playing for nothing

[@CoffeeSA96]

The cod killer killed itself. Lol

[@mariomedrano6447]

No it was ubisoft that killed it

[@sesunero]

@@mariomedrano6447if the game was at bare minimum decent the player count wouldn't have dropped drastically lol

[@Kendog]

You and the COD Community literally brought that up so you’re really part of the blame here for hyping this as the cod killer

[@KaitDiaz47]

​@@Kendog how?

[@Kendog]

@@KaitDiaz47 I literally just explained it🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ the cod community was the one that brought the “COD KILLER” up that literally hyped up Xdefiant

[@picketty9924]

Sad day for XD fans indeed this game has soo much potential 🥺

[@OVOgooner]

All 5 XD fans

[@picketty9924]

@OVOgooner your comment did make me laugh lol but I’m Australian and the game is popping down under you can find a lobby in seconds Aussie’s love the game there definitely is a big player base here with Australia & New Zealand since we’re all in the same region

[@picketty9924]

@OVOgooner I jump on XD every now and then for my multiplayer fix but I’m mainly a zombies player and jump back and forth with zombies and XD but definitely is going to suck not having XD multiplayer around when cod multiplayer is run rampant by SBMM & a fake anti-cheat

[@edmonddantes759]

bUt But buT Mark Rubin said Ubisoft wouldn't shut down the game😄 People are super naive. IDK whether people are just inhaling the copium because they invested so much of their time and money into Xdefiant or just pure naivety. Ubisoft is a publicly traded company who's main priority is with their shareholders and investors. They are running a business not charity. If the game is not making revenue they shutter it and a lot of times they don't even inform game directors or producers like Mark Rubin.

[@xdCrispy-Crisss]

“ThE dAtA” 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@danbeforetime]

As soon as someone has to come out and say "I assure you we have no plans to shut down", it's definitely getting shut down.

[@ireallycantdrive9313]

Exactly. When there’s radio silence, it’s almost always because they have nothing to say, and the media is trying to create a story. But when they literally come out to assure everyone that nothing is happening, it’s a 100% guarantee that what’s being speculated is actually true. They’re trying to avoid panic, giving investors a chance to pull their investments before the value plummets and the game gets shut down.

[@nestormelendez9005]

​@@xdCrispy-Crisssblame truth

[@xenoslayer360]

The lack of content definitely was one of the reasons why it's gonna shut down. Also, I think another reason is that when before the game launched and it kept getting delayed like 3 times, I think, and that's probably when the players don't have the patience. Releasing one map at a time per month wasn't a great decision, too.

[@marvynjeanbaptiste3206]

Tbh a new map per month seems like a good thing to me. I genuinely think it was the movement coupled with the abilities. Also lack of content yes

[@SaveTheSunF1R3x]

god forbid the content is the actual game. did you even play it? update schedule was at a much quicker pace than others in the space imo.

[@marvynjeanbaptiste3206]

@@SaveTheSunF1R3x I play about 8 betas and it was practically no different than launch. Actually it was worse. The earlier betas were much more fun. I’d say it was after the mp7 and libertine nerfs but before the movement bullcrap got out of hand. Yes let’s raise the TTK so it’s harder to kill movement nerds. Let’s add a spider that’s pretty much a free kill. Game destined to flop

[@SaveTheSunF1R3x]

@@marvynjeanbaptiste3206 sounds like a massive skill issue tbh

[@marvynjeanbaptiste3206]

@ sounds like the game is flourishing due to many players with this “massive skill issue” it’s funny that a map as old as Nuketown clears all of Xdefiant😭

[@TRG_R17]

Xdefiant should've added its own forge type mode. It would've helped out with the content drought. It also should've been updated more regularly like Fortnite, cod, overwatch, halo infinite, and the entire top down genre. Xdefiant was a good game that shouldn't have been live stream. Hopefully the Xdefiant team that's left can either reboot itself or make a brand new game that isn't live service or f2p

[@3Guys1Video]

If Assassin’s Creed Shadows ends up flopping, Ubisoft might actually just have to liquidate everything. They had so many flops this year alone

[@WellCookedPotatoes]

The worst part of this game was the gadget spam. It wouldve been so nice if they made a barebones gamemode without any of the garbage free-kill gadgets being used 24/7

[@danbeforetime]

If you look at the original announce trailer, it was marketed as just another hero shooter. It was then morphed into an "old school arcade shooter", but never dropped the abilities. And we finally see what zero SBMM actually does to a game.

[@ItsJustGilbert90]

Failed CoD Killers are going to become a new genre at this rate.

[@peoples_a31]

Wow now this threw me off, never thought the game would go offline. I played at launch and a blast but as time went on started to not enjoy it. It wasn't pulling me as other games have. Whatever happens to the devs best of luck to you, keep ur heads up, stay strong.

[@神-m1v]

jackfrags: is this the next cod killer

[@TheErikjsm]

in some sense its really funny to me because of the whole crowd claiming it was "cod killer" and how wrong they were about that and sbmm being such a huge factor. but then again i didnt enjoy the game either. on the other hand its not great ofc because of the lost jobs but also in terms of competition for cod. bf has been having flop after flop if this next one they put out isnt great whats out there to compete with cod? nothing? thats not good for the consumers.

[@WombatXBT]

Imagine that. If game devs are going to go for that “classic” CoD experience they need to go all in on what made the old cods great in the first place. A simple create a class and 3 lane map system just isn’t enough.

[@gregsteelfoot]

Unfortunately with free to play games Fortnight has a strong foothold in that market and is a very tough game to go up against plus its popularity is still very high, now for any FPS to take players away from CoD in a big way for a long time either CoD would have to take itself out or a game comes out that is far superior to everything CoD has. It’s unfortunate this has happened to XDefiant and I hope everyone involved in this game finds more opportunities and finds great success.

[@Imoverherewatchinsomeyoutube]

Mark Ruben was gaslighting us into believing they had plans for 2025😂

[@mychealmcknight7963]

See this is what happens when everybody overheard a game saying it's the call of duty killer can't we just have a FPS shooter and not call it a call of duty killer please

[@Jr05162]

Not really surprised ubisoft didnt really pay attention to the game what so ever

[@Smokinjoewhite]

The fact they had so much content finished that we will never see is just baffling to me that they are sunsetting before the end of the second season.

[@ikepigott]

CoD is a juggernaut. But I also believe one of the things that hurt UbiSoft here is that trying to establish XDefiant as the “arcade shooter” at the time when CoD hits the peak of its own Treyarch arcade rotation.

[@saulbueno5640]

I'll say it again; they should've released this during MWIIs lifecycle, but the continuous delays destroyed the lightning in a bottle they once had for this game. I am not surprised it's getting shutdown, in fact the writing was on the wall when the game was delayed so often that Mark wasn't able to give an exact release date. Props to him for explaining what was wrong, though.

[@DeadUponAll]

XDefiant could have been a good game, if they would have got rid of the abilities and specialists. Also the TTK was to long, it felt like I was playing Apex with the amount of bullets it takes to finish an enemy.

[@janruiz3608]

The reality is that Ubisoft didn’t made enough effort to maintain the game alive. Instead of trying to make things fresh and engaging for the player base, they got stuck with the same content for a long time and that made the players leave the game. The game got really stale for a long time and I didn’t had any reason or motivation to play. It’s really sad. I feel bad for the dev team and for Mark Rubin. But let’s be honest, XDefiant never had a chance to survive against COD and it’s because of the lackluster efforts of Ubisoft.

[@RocketDraco47]

Wish this game came out 2-3 years ago when I hated cod 💀 now we finally got one I’m enjoying and this game comes out which I also really enjoyed but my friends didn’t at all sadly :(

[@NaotoPlays]

I was really hoping that the game could pull a R6S and get real good, but instead Ubi isnt giving them a chance to do so.

[@maleprincess62]

R6S got real good and then real bad again, because Ubisoft is imploding slowly

[@sethsnow796]

Ok but wtf is this bot lobby gameplay in the back? I can’t peak for half a second without getting triple headshot into oblivion

[@IM-SO-DW]

I personally didn't play; I thought it was too bare bones. I played the early playtests and open playtests, but I expected the full release to have more weapons, operators, and things like prestige and im definitely surprised that skull n bones isnt getting canned yet xdefiant is

[@Joshua-lg3th]

This would’ve been better if it wasn’t a hero shooter in the Ubisoft license

[@BrainDead235]

Man I really enjoyed this game. Haven’t played in awhile which a lot of us are probably in the same boat. It’s important to keep new things going in games nowadays. This game had a chance to compete with CoD 10 years ago, but with the lack of updates kind of killed it. No reason to come back. It’s truly a-shame that it didn’t last. ESPECIALLY because SBMM is all the more entrenched in CoD now. This was probably the last chance of a game to overthrow CoD and its sickening SBMM system. Wish I supported it more now. Truly sad. Hope Rubin knows the game was great and he honestly didn’t do much wrong.

[@barcelona2170]

I loved the game and the gameplay. The biggest issue i feel like is lack of content. It didn't bother me, but I know that lack of bonus content definitely didn't help. There was also the early growing pains. Now that they feel ironed out for the most part, the game I liked is dying. Guess I'll try Something else.

[@AKAVANISHX]

Thank god we still have The Finals, truly a great fun game. Please cover it!

[@brandonzzz1]

Blame that on the people that make the game this game should’ve never tried to be called of duty. That was one of the biggest issue. If you asked me, they needed to be different. They needed their own community.

[@cosmicvcosmic]

Lets be real the game has been dead since its beta, this is just them officially acknowledging its dead

[@nathanh2725]

It was huge on launch just didn't last long

[@CboTheSecond]

Hardly surprised, zero buzz after the open beta, I actually enjoyed that beta despite its issues. Ubisoft had to push this way, way harder than they did. Frankly I'm doubting ubisofts long term existence as a whole, AC:Shadows looks like it might be make or break for them.

[@-Oxy]

The game needed more market, only being on Uplay is a death wish, so many people just don't play games that are only on uplay, steam and i guess epic but mainly steam are the the rulers of the market for games.

[@bottomlesspitt7798]

Why was this never on steam ? If you don’t release it on steam it might as well not exist to most pc players

[@sayinsk8er]

I loved the game but they were doomed when they focused on objective base modes and had abilities. They should have had no abilities, they should have focused on tdm and a have a big tdm mode. They should have focused on the guns more like having a weapon inspect and your mastery camos working with your weapon skins. I believe that alone could have kept the game going for them to add more!

[@brandonzzz1]

Whoever was working on this game was dumb. It should’ve been a full game that they sell and put a story together.

[@noahsample525]

Never trust Ubisoft to do anything right

[@TTTG1000]

It's not Ubisoft's fault the game had a lot of problems and the devs promised stuff that literally should have been in the game

[@flamingscar5263]

@@TTTG1000 yea, rare time it wasn't ubisoft execs The devs focused in the wrong things, they did A LOT of foundational work, engine improvements, netcode improvements, hit reg improvements But that's not really what people want, not when it means the game is bone dry content wise

[@noahsample525]

@@flamingscar5263 gonna be honest I played 5 hours of the beta and 5 hours of the direct release and then like 2 hours of the first season. Hated every second of it but I played just with my friends I love cod hate the new ones

[@TTTG1000]

@@flamingscar5263 and another thing even before when the game first got announced in 2021 The Ubisoft community didn't even accept the game because there were a whole bunch of other games that were in first person like Ghost recon front lines that got basically got canned within 3 days only the division heartland and xdefiant where they didn't get canned they even changed the original name from Tom Clancy's xdefiant to xdefiant Ubisoft originals because it was so bad of a backlash and they've been working on this game for 4 years and they still couldn't deliver a better functioning game and then they had on top of that seven more months on top and still came with basically the same product I also know this because I played the close betas before that before the open beta

[@jugger17]

But ppl were saying that the "no SBMM" thing would bury CoD lmao at the end it doesn't matter how matchmaking behaves when the majority of the players are tryhards which XDefiant was mainly catering towards to

[@VOLDGAMER1]

xdefiant wasn't catering to sweats, it's just the fact that because it had no sbmm, sweats could pub stomp alot easier, i saw it all the time in black ops 4, infinite warfare, cod ww2, and black ops 3 back in 2022 and this year, nothing but pub stomping sweats in those games now, no noobs or casuals anymore.

[@neelshah3742]

Everything you've said, I felt the same. There was so much to like about the game, but it felt stagnant. Sad to see it go though

[@skeletor2994]

I've been laughed at for saying this game was trash, and it wasn't gonna last. Now I'm just reading the comments eating popcorn.

[@THESTRONGALBERT]

I had fun with the game. It was the extreme amount of time to level weapons that drove me away. It's a bummer that another fps is going away.

[@johns5758]

PC cheaters and the ridiculous bunny hopping made me give up on this game.

[@superman1875]

Glad you kept it real as far as the game was cause they didn’t do the best job at making a good game worth playing. Just didn’t have the things it needed to be a solid game.I did want it to succeed and be some competition for CoD even if small but guess it’s not happening. Hopefully they can bounce back.

[@Xancisco]

Honestly they did so good the first beta for the game. I know people hate “movement demons” but man the way you can move freely and slide everywhere was so fun. When the game released and it changed the movement it just felt different

[@tommythesparta4912]

I wanted to see this gamrlr succeed, but I kinda expected this First thing being it was basically going head to head with cod, which will never end well cuz cod is just too big to compete with Second thing being there basically nothing to do other than mp, while other games have a campaign and extra modes on top of the mp experience And third thing being a much more personal one but the game just felt off and weird to me, it felt like a less polished/smoothed out cod but with an overwatch structure just merged in

[@AceShadowbloodcivic]

This game is like BO4 with COD4 levels of content. This game was unfortunately outdated as soon as it was released.

[@Colipop52]

RIP for a great game that never was. so much potential its unreal. the devs are who we need in the industry but its a shame that they had a tumour called ubisoft killing them. i hope they go on and do even better things. they listened to their customers which is unheard of in todays age. we need so many more devs like them who wont get stifled by the publishers

[@ThatsMaxx]

For me Xdefiant was a great alternative when I would reach the level cap each season in MW3 but with all the new content in BO6 especially zombies unfortunately it’s been a couple months since Ubisoft got any of my attention because I have limited time to game.

[@brandonzzz1]

The cost to make the game was expensive as hell. They still was paying the people that make this game and then a lot of people play it, but wasn’t buying anything from it. This game was dead in the water all along.

[@jonathantravels]

Had the chance to do some damage during MW2 but messed up. Midnight Society will flop too

[@soEZSimplode]

I mean Ubisoft hasn’t been doing well as a company for some time. There could have been internal pushback on funding to implement stuff to the game that of course the developers were not going to talk about. With how open Mark has been it just always felt off to me that there were some things not implemented that we asked for. There must have been more behind the scenes than we know.

[@Jrclego1998]

Fingers crossed XDefiant returns some day

[@jordangibson935]

It will never ever return

[@lstsoul4376]

It won't

[@ItsGhostWrld]

My problem with ubisoft is literally 75 to 85% of there ideas and concepts for games are amazing its just they always find a way to take tht amazing opportunity and fuck it up every time dont know how long its going to be until they themselves close doors

[@lycantropy13]

I had fun in the beta and was excited for the full game but when the game came out i tried it and it didn't feel any different from the beta that was a year prior and i really don't like the hero shooter type game that was xdefiant so it wasn't for me after all. The game felt empty, i do camo grind on every cod that i play even if i don't do them all i still have fun but in this game it's just level so it doesn't give you any objective at all. So with that in mind i never bothered sinking time in the game.

[@SYMShutYoMouth]

For me, when they changed the gun progression system it killed my interest. Not to mention that they spent a lot of time on cosmetics, but we really weren’t allowed to just unlock this stuff in game without paying. Most people are not paying for Microtransactions anymore. The gameplay of xDefiant was fun. It felt like old COD. But it gets boring super fast. They needed more maps and more to do.

[@joshhazskilz7015]

Not gonna lie this game would’ve had to release during MW2 to try and be successful, but even then when it released it took to long to add content. Fun game but had some problems and sucks to see the devs lose a job.

[@MrHastygamer]

I’m so glad I never really got into the game, it wasn’t so bad but I just didn’t believe it would be allowed to survive for a long time and as much as people dislike it sbmm really helps games long term health so I just made sure to never get too into it.

[@dibble3667]

At that point at the end about skull n bones, the only reason i could think of why that game is still up is because of how low the player count is and thus keeping the server costs to a minimum. With xdefiant i think it hit the sweet spot in the worst of ways, and i dont think they have the capital to sustain it. My prediction is the AC game is gonna launch and its gonna be good or mid but its not gonna get them out of this hole they have dug themselves into and close down within 5 years

[@MacS7n]

This is what happen when you build your game around beating another game without being original. I even forgot this game existed.

[@HattoriZangetsu]

The bad controls ruined it for me also the operator abilities that's not a cod killer for me. For me I need something simple and fun and most importantly that controls really well in consoles.

[@StoneAquatics]

Damn this is sad

[@matthewbackhouse6309]

Big shame, but think you covered the main points well. I enjoyed it, but even i wasn't playing, so if you can't keep the players who are enjoying the game involved your fighting a loosing battle

[@LEG3NDZx]

Skull and bones being up and xdefiant being shut down just shows the state of ubisoft

[@chrislmaoo]

I tried to give the game a fair shot, but as a “casual player” in cod, having SBMM makes them game playable to me. Every lobby in XD was sweaty as hell and not fun especially after a long work day.

[@SgtTankDempsey]

This is all Ubisoft fault for their stubbornness to Steam. All they had to was release it on there

[@Nate-kc2wf]

I think i agree tbh, I have ubisoft and still i didn't care enough to open it and try the game, have to deal with a bunch of sign-ins

[@SgtTankDempsey]

@Nate-kc2wf I'm sure it got more players by getting put on Epic but probably not that much since most people use Epic Games for Fortnite and the free games

[@edmonddantes759]

About skull and Bones I think they can't just shutdown the game because they have contract with the Singaporean government. They received a grant to aid in the development of a major gaming title. The game is a major flop but they gotta fulfil their contract we just don't know the details about it.

[@bbweick]

Fortnite was a true cod killer back in 2017-2018, a large chunk of cod players have still never play IW or BO4 since they were playing fortnite instead.

[@theweekndxo7438]

I don’t understand why “underdog” type games and media often times try and market themselves as basically the “we’re not them,” when it truly just never works. You can’t build a fanbase and community purely off your thing not being the other big competitor that a lot of people dislike. People don’t like you for you, they like you because they’re fans of the competitor who are mad. It’s the same thing with what I think is gonna happen to UFL, the football game that has been in development for years that has been constantly delayed but is finally coming out. The entire community support behind it is basically “it’s not fifa and I don’t like EA” but it has a LOT of work to do to be really polished. It’s so barebones it doesn’t even have offline play I think. Also lacks a lot of licenses. People aren’t gonna get attached to it just cause they dislike fifa tho

[@Crewface28]

i think ubisoft looked at this game and hit the SHUTDOWN hammer

[@konnen7354]

2024 has been a hell of a bad year for Ubisoft.

[@3lement2010]

It was such a great game until they just stopped updating the game. Cosmetics were lackluster, nothing to really grind for, updates in general just took forever to be implemented in the game. It sucks to see cause this honestly was a great game, just had a terrible execution of their plans.

[@Mr_Holy1937]

Chat I literally just started playing the game and I love it please someone save the game

[@cesarvelasquez8528]

GOD DAMN IT. & On my birthday to next year.

[@welshculture]

I havent played since release but i am totally gutted man

[@Vt_Nz]

If you asked me, id say the long delays killed the game before it even launched

[@Nate-kc2wf]

If xdefiant released 2 years ago, maybe it could have made enough to help, but as of this year anything launching under ubisoft has to do gloriously good or it doesn't make enough Edit; I def agree it got stale, nobody really wanted to see it