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.
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.