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XDefiant Is Being Shut Down, Developer Closed

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Joshua Robertson

Published Dec 4, 2024

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XDefiant, Ubisoft's attempt to rival Call of Duty, is being shut down just six months after its initial release.
Executive producer Mark Rubin announced the shutdown on Twitter, with refunds promised for Founder's Pack buyers and recent purchases.
Ubisoft San Francisco, developer of XDefiant, is also being closed, along with Ubisoft Osaka, as up to 177 people are expected to lose their jobs.

XDefiant, the game that Ubisoft had intended to be a real rival to Activision's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty series, is being shut down just six months after launch. This comes after a consistently decreasing number of players and reports that Ubisoft has given the developers a timeline on hꦏow long they had to improve their numbers.

This news was first , who an✱nounced on Twitter that the game will be shut down, and that XDefiant is no longer accepting new downloads or player registrations. Plans to release all the content promised for Season 3 are still going ahead, though a date has yet to be determined, and the game's servers will be fully shut down on June 3, 2025.

For those that purchaꦿsed a Founder's Pack, Rubin explains that they'll be getting full refunds, as well as any player that made a purchase in the game over the past 30 days. Rubin explains that these refunds should go through automatically in roughly eight weeks from now.

XDefiant Developer Ubisoft San Francisco Is Also Being Shut Down

Alongside this news, it's also being that XDefia🦋nt developer Ubisoft Francisco is also being shuttered, along with Ubisoft Osaka. Totilo has claimed that up to 177 people are expected to lose their jobs, with half of the team that worked on XDefiant moving on to other projects within Ubisoft.

It's not quite Concord levels of swiftness, but this shutdown comes just 6 months after the release of XDefiant, and severaꦦl attempts from Ubisoft ꩵto coax more players into the game. The release of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the series the game was eventually supposed to compete with, could possi�𝕴�bly have played a part in the game's rapid downfall, though only Ubisoft itself will know for sure.