[STEAM] XDefiant, the once-touted ‘CoD killer,’ shuts down tonight. Here’s how Ubisoft’s shooter totally misfired

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"Free-to-play, in particular, is a long journey," executive producer Mark Rubin

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on Dec. 3, 2024. "Many free-to-play games take a long time to find their footing and become profitable. It’s a long journey that Ubisoft and the teams working on the game were prepared to make until very recently. But unfortunately, the journey became too much to sensibly continue."

Featuring Ubisoft IP characters and likenesses such as Watch_Dogs, The Division, Rainbow Six, and Far Cry, XDefiant got off to a hot start with eight million players in its first week after launching on May 21, 2024. It also boasted high viewership on

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while targeting a Call of Duty audience that was frustrated by skill-based matchmaking, which XDefiant did not use in its casual playlists.

But the honeymoon ******* did not last very long, as the game failed to capture player attention, and most importantly, their money.

The game was in development hell for several years, experiencing multiple delays and tumult behind the scenes, according to

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. But once it finally came out, the excitement felt at least a little bit real for a while until player count and interest steadily dwindled throughout 2024, leading to the game's cancellation.

Despite adding seasonal content like new factions, weapons, and maps, along with ranked play, XDefiant lost out to the rest of the industry and was most likely dealt a death blow by ****** Ops 6 launching in October.

By the end of August,

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reported that XDefiant was on "borrowed time," and just a few months later, it was made official that the game was being put out to pasture.

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XDefiant at

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small bursts. It brought back some of the memories of fast-paced, Twitchy console shooters like CoD's of the past. But it unfortunately did little to keep me interested for more than a few weeks. And apparently, I'm not alone in this regard.

XDefiant unfortunately marks the latest in a long line of games that try to go big in the live-service shooter genre, only to find out that there are only so many gamers and only so much time for people to play. And it probably won't be the last.

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