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.
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?