Their official statement: https://www.ubisoft.com/xdefiant-our-message-to-players
Fascinating how they have repeatedly gone belly up on multiple big projects lately and with the new assassins creed basically DOA it seems like Ubisoft will be the first major to go under. Sadly with as pozzed as gaming is I bet Sony will either buy them outright or keep them alive.
Ubisoft just can't stop losing. Such a shame ... well, not really.
It was a stupid product from the start. It was issued as a direct competitor to Call of Diddy while UTI-soft already had a strong product that niches into that market (Rainbow Six Siege). Who ever thought of this idea and who ever green-lit it needs to be fired.
The problem with Siege is that its players are famously too toxic to actually get anyone to play the game, on a level with League.
Both on a "kick you for playing one iota wrong" level and a "ban you for not respecting the Tranny Operator's pronouns" one.
If only all freemium slop would suffer the same fate.
XDefiant was trash. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
There's a reason why Ubisoft wants Steam to hide the player stats of their games.
Say what you will about the game, but if ubisoft had released server binaries for the thing, players could run their own servers, no matter what ubisoft did.
That's nice and all, but who cares if it's a garbage game with near zero appeal?
Remember how much crowing the big publishers did over being a multi billion dollar industry bigger than Hollywood a few years back? And how they're almost all publicly traded and even in indexes like FTSE and NASDAQ?
They're close to the fabled realm of too big to fail, and yet a huge number of gamers (I.E their sole income source) fully expect most of them to crash and burn in the next few years. It's going to be a cluster fuck of a crash once the first one falls.
Y'know I wonder if gamers could successfully invert the GameStop magic and start rolling shorts of Triple A stocks until the fireworks start?
Oh, no! Anyway...
Actual fun and interesting games were put on the back burner for this (fun and interesting for Ubisoft anyway)
The Tom Clancy's Heartland which was a division spinoff game was actually fun with an interesting PVP mechanic, and it got shelved among others for this.
Of all the latest Ubisoft entries, I was actually looking forward to that one.