They probably did the sponsorships, saw that the player count didn’t change because of the amount of anti-xDefiant hate in the cod community, then cancelled the game.
Even if you didn’t like XDefiant (I absolutely hated it), this is a pretty massive blow to CoD competition. We really do need more arena shooters to compete with them and push innovation.
Lol this is literally the OPPOSITE of innovation. They were a Call of Duty clone, only they were cloning where CoD was 12-14 years ago, and even then nowhere as good as the originals. Pretending as if this B-game ever stood a snowball's chance in hell of competing with the king of FPS games of the last 15 years is laughable.
As someone who had over 100+ hours on this game I expected this for a while. SBMM will probably be the norm in every other FPS title now, scary and sad to think about
@kuribos I just don't get how everyone cries sbmm giving me matches against sweats when in the reverse they get into a lower skill lobby and proceed to be that sweaty player it makes no sense and is completly hypocritical
@@Bubbs_Kahn I see it more of a problem of diversity. The higher skill matches all feel the same. Everyone is running whatever is meta, having basically the same play style. Cod used to be more of a sandbox, now people just run whatever is good no matter what.
@@fenrirsfolly92 I saw a couple banner ads on gaming websites and was under the impression it was still in early access or beta testing. Games don't typically blow up in a month though. Saw 0 gameplay advertisement. People aren't going to play a game because of the title and an image of a character.
it is really funny that chopper mentions the content updates are the best part, when that was probably the part that led to this. expected features took fucking months to be implemented. aside from a meaningless xp camo grind (which is to say you can only earn camos from leveling up), there was nothing else to do. nothing to build towards or earn, aside from more guns and any faction you didn't yet unlock i guess.
He’s also only doing this update video because of the sponsor lmao. If he didn’t get sponsors I doubt he will be making this video in the first place just like the other sponsor video about this game.
XDefiant's failure is not on the devs but on the Parent Company. You can absolutely tell the passion the devs have for the game and this is what is missing from Tripple A games lately. The core issue is the Ubisoft and the struggles that Ubisoft is having and shuttering multiple teams and games. If XDefiant was under a more patient parent company, it absolutely would have continued to progress and become a better game and receive updates.
The gam’s been falling for a while had nothing to do with Ubisoft, they gave u people what u wanted no SBMM and it didn’t work out, not to mention the plethora of other issues the game had/has
@ yeah dude it sucks but they eventually stop making games for the old consoles, but yes SBMM did have a role to play cuz it kills player retention when casuals (the largest player base all around) get tired of getting 💩 on and completely abandon the game and eventually even better players have to go up against lobbies of constant sweats and they’ll get tired and leave too
@@fenrirsfolly92 there would have never been enough casuals to keep this gaming going. No sbmm works when you have a hundred thousand+ concurrent players. The only people who hate sbmm are the super sweats though. How ironic. They want to face lower skilled casuals because they get tired of playing people like themselves.
Unfortunately it's sad to say, but I saw this coming on the release day... Ubisoft is the issue. The name is the issue It's almost dreaded as much as United healthcare sad but true Sorry somebody had to say it😢
Another game that was suppose to be the “Cod Killer” that flopped hard still can’t believe people thought Ubisoft of all companies were capable of doing so😂😂
@@NostalgiaNet8think Ubisoft took too long to push Xdefiant out the door felt like people were talking about the game more during the betas than the actual full release
@ What's even crazier is that even if you previously owned the game and deleted it, you can't find it in your PS5 game collection. I had the game, deleted it, and it vanished from my collection. That's the most shocking part: they just announced the game's shutting down NEXT YEAR and have already delisted it
This game was a godsend for actually good players who were burned by cod's sbmm hell. Unfortunately ubisoft is going under and didn't have the resources to let this one reach its potential. The sheer speed at which it's gone from massive launch to pulling the plug is shocking even for those of us who knew it wasn't as populated as it used to be. The community expected a steam launch to give it one last roll of the dice at finding a solid playerbase but Ubisoft wouldn't even give this game a chance. I hope the whole company burns because they don't even know what they've thrown away here.
It's possible the game might come back as a paid game. Obviously there wasn't enough financial support to continue the project. For most casual Call of Duty fans, XDefiant probably flew under the radar, and for those who were aware of its existence (like me) most asked, "Why play off-brand Chinese knock-off Call of Duty when I have the real thing?" Obviously one way or another, it just wasn't making money. They're a company after all.
😂😂😂 “burned by cods SBMM hell”. You mean making you play against people of your skill bracket?? 😂😂 your complaint is “I don’t get put against enough low skilled players in cod”. Pathetic
I dont know if I'd say input based match making was a good thing for this game. There's never been enough KBM players to warrant IBMM. This game died in less than 2 months for that input because you couldnt run into anyone who was not a sweat on that input so the casual part of the community quit. Controller lobbies were significantly easier and more fun because a majority of the people on that input are just less experienced. This game had potential but they released it at the worst time, had shit servers, refused to launch on Steam, and catered to a community of CoD players who were likely going to drop it the second a new CoD came out.
M&K players ruin gaming. You can’t CASUALLY play M&K. You’re sitting up, 3 inches from the monitor. You’re naturally going to try harder. Cod went down hill when crossplay got put in. That’s when SBMM really had to be put in effect. Really good M&K players should not be put in lobbies with casual controller players. That’s how you lose casuals. And causals spend the most money
Cutting this game off this early really sucks, I was thinking this game would get a R6 Siege treatment on the long run. I played the betas and on launch heard that the game was barebones so I didn’t play it. I guess Ubisoft prefers selling and maintaining the Quadruple A game Skull and Bones rather than improving XDefiant, maybe even adding to Steam would’ve helped.
What do you mean maintaining skull and bones? Whats there to maintain? And maybe skull and bones players spend more money. Just because a game isn’t good doesn’t mean the hardcore players don’t spend a lot of money
the thing is, releasing content over a long time is a killer to games nowadays. if you can't put it out by the time people lose interest, it's hard to get people back on the game.
And it has to be good content. Adding 1 new gun and 2 new maps after 6 months just won’t be enough if you didn’t have enough launch content. 6 months after release this game has like 6 maps
SBMM does not “put you in a lobby to make you feel like a god”. EOMM does. SBMM puts you in lobbies with other people who are roughly as good at the game as you are. That allows you to progress naturally up the ladder by moving slowly from skill bracket to skill bracket without the frustration of potentially pitting you against overskilled players or the boredom of stomping underskilled players. There is a reason real life competitions have skill brackets. The best play against the best and the newbies play against the newbies. You don’t see a competitive basketball team contain both LeBron James and Brittle-bones Magee, the guy whose never held a ball in his life. SBMM has been around for decades in gaming and has been a part of some of the most beloved shooters of all time. The fact Activision found a way to twist it into something awful in the last five years doesn’t mean the concept is a bad one. I’d even go as far as to say pure SBMM could have actually buoyed player numbers, by protecting new, low skill, and casual players from getting dropped into lobbies with (no offense) guys like you. At least allowing the option to continue in the skill-based intro lobbies indefinitely alongside the random matchmaking lobbies could have stemmed at least SOME of the player churn.
That’s because it’s not awful. The literal ONLY people who complain about SBMM are streamers, content creators and try hards. Average players have no issue with it. 90% of the player base doesn’t mind playing people in their skill level. People complain about SBMM because they are in high tier lobbies and get tired of sweating but that’s who they are. What people really mean is “I want to be put against players below my skill level so I can have an easier time”
@toptiertech7291 god, could you imagine if LeBron one day just went “I’m tired of having to try my ass off every game against these pros. I should be allowed to go play middle school JV teams. It’ll be fun for them too because getting stomped 200-0 will inspire them to want to suck less.” If you are proud of being good at a game, you should be proud to have to sweat your ass off every, single match against other good players. Why would any self-respecting good player even want to be in the same lobby as someone who picked up the game that day? If anything, demanding no SBMM as a good or great player is, in fact, demanding to be ‘put into lobbies that make you feel like a god’.
Bro been sitting in this video for 2 months 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 he really likes xdefiant tho 😂😂😂😂😂😂 content creators have literally put themselves on notice..not to be trusted.. they do not speak fir anyone but themselves and a select few
I loved this game but I left a long time ago because of the issues with stability and my oh my the snipers. In a game like this with a longer ttk snipers took the fun out of the game on every map and gamemode. I played back when it released for about 30 ish hours, my friends got a few guns gold till they changed how to get gold too and they stopped playing and we kept up w updates for months too but we didnt like the direction the game went
Wow I've never seen something implode this quickly. All those years of beta development, it finally comes out, and now it's already shutting down after a year. I'm surprised. I would've thought being a free Call of Duty would have made it an instant hit, especially with all the faux-ire online towards SBMM. But in all honesty I tried it once or twice, and didn't touch it much after myself. I imagine player numbers weren't great or cosmetic/battlepass purchases were too low to justify continuing. It seems strange though to make the big investment of building this entire game, then shut it down almost immediately after. It takes minimal effort to just keep the game running as is and pay a few artists to put out new cosmetics to sell every week/month. The marginal cost is low, while the opportunity for income is greater. But I'm sure the economics of it doesn't add up for them. It must be a real cash burner for them to jump ship so quickly.
People just need to stop with the “Game killer” tag line I’ve yet to see any game with this label actually go anywhere that just ends up flopping in the end🤷🏻
Only game that succeeded at that ironically is CoD which the first one was known internally as “Medal of Honor killer”. But yeah, calling any game an “X Killer” is setting very unrealistic expectations.
I don't like sbmm, but without it, new people don't join your game, because when they do, they get CRUSHED by the game's veterans... it's a necessary evil to maintain a community.
@@bigbig54SBMM is necessary. How many multiplayer games today have zero SBMM? There’s a reason. If I’ve been playing the game for 3 hours there’s no reason I should be in a lobby with people who have played it for 400 hours.
@@toptiertech7291 just bc they have them doesnt mean they need them... multiplyer was good before and now you are litteraly setup to lose or win depending on the mercy of matchmaking Battlefield works just fine without it Yes ,there is no reason ,but obviously i dont mean zero matchmaking,every game had some but EOMM(engadement based match making)has no place in games
Love the game, but uninstalled it right away as I just don't want to spend more time on something I know is doomed. Fuck Ubisoft. I hate rigged COD, but love this type of game. Now there's nothing to play again.
If you love it, you can still enjoy it while it's still there. You still have a good 6 months before it dies. Think of it like this. This game was meant to imitate classic CoD, and CoD games before 2019 basically had a 1 year life span anyway online. So it dies as it lived, a true CoD clone to the very end.
Ikr lol, he’s only here cuz of that bag he doesn’t care. The whole video is literally just a 10 min advertisement reading from a list lmao. He even plug in a ss2 gold pack in the middle lol.
Been playing since day 1 and ill be there on the day of its funerL. My jaw hit the ground last night when I heard. Ubisoft has been failing game after game...I thought since this was one of their very few games with its head above water that it would be safe...for now.
Lmao i love how people were acting like this game was gunna be a cod killer because no SBMM/EOMM. Huh, guess the matchmaking system focused on keeping players engaged and having balanced matches thats supported by mountains of data keeps more players. Plus the camo and challenges were such ass
@@sesuneirooh u poor thing the game was failing long ago yall just couldn’t get it through ur heads it was never going to survive and had nothing to do with Ubisoft 😂
The game was released in the exact same condition as the beta. To this day, hitsscan is a major issue with ghost bullets happening every 2-3 gunfights. No ultimate goal in the game, progression was ABYSMAL. 3 weapon level a match if you’re LUCKY. Shit camo. Shit game modes. Shit abilities. The game was ass. Imagine if a CoD game released and the bullets you were firing just stopped working. It’d be fixed in a weekend. The fact that xdefiant has this issue TO THIS DAY is just unacceptable as a player. So glad I dumped this heap of garbage after 200 hours
I really enjoyed the game but it getting delayed by over a year with nothing to show for it and having god awful hit detection at release really killed the momentum of the game. Edit: Forgot to mention the movement nerfs
SBMM only works for the bottom 10% of players. It doesn't increase player retention for those who know how it works. The moment I get my super fun or high score match, I'll play a different game or do something else entirely because I know it hasn't been since CoD WW2 where lobbies didn't disband and you could actually make friends and have some sort of fun socializing and not just playing.
When I did try playing it and it was not Fun and felt like it was sweaty and had a lot of try hards and I didn’t like the gun play and it felt it had more sbmm
Free to play kinda killed it it’s not a game for everyone but the people who enjoyed could’ve just payed to play the game instead of just expecting people to spend money on the item shop or on battle passes
Free to play works with lots of other games--CS:GO, Fortnite, etc. If this game were paid, there would be zero reason to buy it over actual, real CoD. The entire premise of XDefiant was that it was like a free Call of Duty game.
@ yes it works when people are spending money on the game but with xdefiant if people payed to play they could’ve put that money into giving people more content
I really wanted to like this game and gave it a pretty good shot during season1, maybe 50 hours or so. But I just didn't end up liking it. I really wanted this to be serious competition for COD, which has always been my main. But I always ended up going back to COD, despite the oppressive SBMM. Never went back to it once bo6 launched. I liked the maps and general gunplay, but didn't like the "super powers".
Back to singleplayer games exclusively now. I absolutely refuse to ever engange with these BS SBMM algorithms ever again. They don’t deserve a penny from my wallet or a second of my playtime.
Yes let's go 😂😂. I hated this game with a passion. This game was full of sweats and elitist. The git good crowd obliterated me and talking about i started from the bottom so do you. Guess where this game is going back to u guessed right the scrapyard. It feels bittersweet knowing the cod killer couldn't dethrone the goat cod 😂😅. Also the lack of sbmm couldn't keep players so now what?
The only real competition left for COD multi-player is Battlefield and Halo. Halo really needs a Playstation release. If Sony can put MLB on Xbox, Microsoft can put Halo on PS5.
Thats litteraly not the reason and it doesnt matter if its on steam or notits free and the ubisoft app is just like any other client to play games and its free plus it got good marketing but still its not a COD killer because COD has to many players and its just not the same
The people that wanted Xdefiant to beat CoD are same people playing Bo6 right now. Hold that L gamers. CoD is unstoppable, you couldnt stop yourself from playing CoD if you tried.
Okay but that's not a healthy mindset to have regardless of the many flaws of XDEFIANT it needed to stay in the sphere so cod would actually have a reason to innovate and try to do better that's what competition does with capitalisim.
For more information regarding XDefiant shutting down, check out this link: www.ubisoft.com/xdefiant-our-message-to-players #ad
Ubisoft sponsoring a video about their game's cancellations is crazy.
Saw like 3 yesterday from cod RUclipsrs lol, literally right after they announced that
Teep literally did a sponsored stream this week I believe yesterday
😂
"Saying Goodbye to XDefiant" - Sponsored by XDefiant...
It’s so weird that they would sponsor a bunch of RUclipsrs DAYS before it was announced that it was cancelled and done with.
They probably did the sponsorships, saw that the player count didn’t change because of the amount of anti-xDefiant hate in the cod community, then cancelled the game.
The game had zero marketing which hurt it heavily.
What a bummer, this game was pretty fun
Even if you didn’t like XDefiant (I absolutely hated it), this is a pretty massive blow to CoD competition. We really do need more arena shooters to compete with them and push innovation.
Delta Force will release in a few hours, it's def a better alternative than xdefiant.
Yes this is Part of bo6's success
the finals is the only f2p shooter ive had faith in
Delta Force and next year’s Battlefield need to succeed or it’s over for COD’s competition.
Lol this is literally the OPPOSITE of innovation. They were a Call of Duty clone, only they were cloning where CoD was 12-14 years ago, and even then nowhere as good as the originals. Pretending as if this B-game ever stood a snowball's chance in hell of competing with the king of FPS games of the last 15 years is laughable.
As someone who had over 100+ hours on this game I expected this for a while. SBMM will probably be the norm in every other FPS title now, scary and sad to think about
Man coming from fighting games and playing cód it's gás how much everyone Hayes playing equally skilled players
@@Bubbs_Kahntwo completely different games. Arcade shooters are more casual, keep the sbmm in ranked mode. Simple as that
Slop sheeple.. there's more out there than COD.
@kuribos I just don't get how everyone cries sbmm giving me matches against sweats when in the reverse they get into a lower skill lobby and proceed to be that sweaty player it makes no sense and is completly hypocritical
@@Bubbs_Kahn I see it more of a problem of diversity. The higher skill matches all feel the same. Everyone is running whatever is meta, having basically the same play style. Cod used to be more of a sandbox, now people just run whatever is good no matter what.
The cod killer tag is basically suicide at this point
I think everyone expect this to happen sooner or later, a triple A live-service game with less than 20k players is a failure.
Especially if those 20k people aren’t spending money
How can games be called “Live services” when the game gets shut down after a year?
Everything that lives dies
because any game that is dependent on an internet connection is a live service game
@@_trashvis_not true. Live service games are games that are constantly updated, new features and events. More than just requiring internet
They basically did no advertising, i wasnt even aware the game was out of Beta.
That’s bs cuz during its first month it was everywhere
@@fenrirsfolly92 I saw a couple banner ads on gaming websites and was under the impression it was still in early access or beta testing. Games don't typically blow up in a month though. Saw 0 gameplay advertisement. People aren't going to play a game because of the title and an image of a character.
@@mediumChungus69every big RUclipsr that plays cod also played this game when it first came out. It just wasn’t good
Blame truth needs a wellness check
pathetic grifter
“Cod killer” by the way😂
Blame truth is a grifter, he doesn’t actually care
It's sad how Ubisoft the company continue to dig their hole deeper.
7 months, that's gotta be a new record.
Concord: "Hold my beer."
@@Moryo7 Shi I already forgot that game existed🤣
@@Moryo7I think there was also that "Hyenas" game by SEGA which had 1 beta session and got cancelled
Surely if we beg and I mean all of us they won’t shut it down…
it is really funny that chopper mentions the content updates are the best part, when that was probably the part that led to this. expected features took fucking months to be implemented. aside from a meaningless xp camo grind (which is to say you can only earn camos from leveling up), there was nothing else to do. nothing to build towards or earn, aside from more guns and any faction you didn't yet unlock i guess.
He’s also only doing this update video because of the sponsor lmao. If he didn’t get sponsors I doubt he will be making this video in the first place just like the other sponsor video about this game.
XDefiant's failure is not on the devs but on the Parent Company. You can absolutely tell the passion the devs have for the game and this is what is missing from Tripple A games lately. The core issue is the Ubisoft and the struggles that Ubisoft is having and shuttering multiple teams and games. If XDefiant was under a more patient parent company, it absolutely would have continued to progress and become a better game and receive updates.
The gam’s been falling for a while had nothing to do with Ubisoft, they gave u people what u wanted no SBMM and it didn’t work out, not to mention the plethora of other issues the game had/has
No it failed because it’s entire identity revolved around “killing cod” and catering to oldheads
@@fenrirsfolly92no SBMM made zero difference. The game wasn’t on steam, ps4 or Xbox one. That’s like 70% of all gamers
@ yeah dude it sucks but they eventually stop making games for the old consoles, but yes SBMM did have a role to play cuz it kills player retention when casuals (the largest player base all around) get tired of getting 💩 on and completely abandon the game and eventually even better players have to go up against lobbies of constant sweats and they’ll get tired and leave too
@@fenrirsfolly92 there would have never been enough casuals to keep this gaming going. No sbmm works when you have a hundred thousand+ concurrent players. The only people who hate sbmm are the super sweats though. How ironic. They want to face lower skilled casuals because they get tired of playing people like themselves.
this game has been live for months and it still feels like they hardly added anything lol this was no surprise to see it getting shut down
That’s because the game was in such bad shape they spent the first 3 months trying to fix basic hit registration
Unfortunately it's sad to say, but I saw this coming on the release day...
Ubisoft is the issue. The name is the issue
It's almost dreaded as much as United healthcare sad but true
Sorry somebody had to say it😢
This is decent evidence the XDefiant team didn't want or expect the sunset.
Wow i remember people were saying this was the cod killer. What a shame
people with screws loose, yeah
Another game that was suppose to be the “Cod Killer” that flopped hard still can’t believe people thought Ubisoft of all companies were capable of doing so😂😂
The only game that can kill cod, is cod
You need competition of some kind. CoD has been going downhill for years, and Activision/Microsoft have been shady for years.
@@NostalgiaNet8think Ubisoft took too long to push Xdefiant out the door felt like people were talking about the game more during the betas than the actual full release
You can't even download it on playstation anymore. They delisted it from the store so quick
I dont know why. This could have gotten more players as S3 is pushed out, and why not keeping servers open
@ What's even crazier is that even if you previously owned the game and deleted it, you can't find it in your PS5 game collection. I had the game, deleted it, and it vanished from my collection. That's the most shocking part: they just announced the game's shutting down NEXT YEAR and have already delisted it
@@aiden8834 Yeah its pretty stupid imo
@@aiden8834yeah it feels like there's more to it behind the scenes if you ask me.
@@aiden8834if you go to ur library and search xd usually it comes up for me, i couldn’t find it in the ps store but i found it there
This game was a godsend for actually good players who were burned by cod's sbmm hell. Unfortunately ubisoft is going under and didn't have the resources to let this one reach its potential. The sheer speed at which it's gone from massive launch to pulling the plug is shocking even for those of us who knew it wasn't as populated as it used to be. The community expected a steam launch to give it one last roll of the dice at finding a solid playerbase but Ubisoft wouldn't even give this game a chance. I hope the whole company burns because they don't even know what they've thrown away here.
U mean supposedly good players until they finally find out someone else is better than them
It's possible the game might come back as a paid game. Obviously there wasn't enough financial support to continue the project. For most casual Call of Duty fans, XDefiant probably flew under the radar, and for those who were aware of its existence (like me) most asked, "Why play off-brand Chinese knock-off Call of Duty when I have the real thing?" Obviously one way or another, it just wasn't making money. They're a company after all.
😂😂😂 “burned by cods SBMM hell”. You mean making you play against people of your skill bracket?? 😂😂 your complaint is “I don’t get put against enough low skilled players in cod”. Pathetic
@@toptiertech7291 lmao spoken like someone who's never been good at anything before except shoving cods pole in their mouth
No offense man, but make sure that check clears next time
I saw it coming
I dont know if I'd say input based match making was a good thing for this game. There's never been enough KBM players to warrant IBMM. This game died in less than 2 months for that input because you couldnt run into anyone who was not a sweat on that input so the casual part of the community quit. Controller lobbies were significantly easier and more fun because a majority of the people on that input are just less experienced.
This game had potential but they released it at the worst time, had shit servers, refused to launch on Steam, and catered to a community of CoD players who were likely going to drop it the second a new CoD came out.
M&K players ruin gaming. You can’t CASUALLY play M&K. You’re sitting up, 3 inches from the monitor. You’re naturally going to try harder. Cod went down hill when crossplay got put in. That’s when SBMM really had to be put in effect. Really good M&K players should not be put in lobbies with casual controller players. That’s how you lose casuals. And causals spend the most money
My guy anyone with a brain saw this coming
Thanks for noticing my brain. 😁
Ong
Cutting this game off this early really sucks, I was thinking this game would get a R6 Siege treatment on the long run. I played the betas and on launch heard that the game was barebones so I didn’t play it. I guess Ubisoft prefers selling and maintaining the Quadruple A game Skull and Bones rather than improving XDefiant, maybe even adding to Steam would’ve helped.
What do you mean maintaining skull and bones? Whats there to maintain? And maybe skull and bones players spend more money. Just because a game isn’t good doesn’t mean the hardcore players don’t spend a lot of money
the thing is, releasing content over a long time is a killer to games nowadays. if you can't put it out by the time people lose interest, it's hard to get people back on the game.
And it has to be good content. Adding 1 new gun and 2 new maps after 6 months just won’t be enough if you didn’t have enough launch content. 6 months after release this game has like 6 maps
Im gonna keep playing this until the end, alongside FragPunk when it releases
SBMM does not “put you in a lobby to make you feel like a god”.
EOMM does.
SBMM puts you in lobbies with other people who are roughly as good at the game as you are. That allows you to progress naturally up the ladder by moving slowly from skill bracket to skill bracket without the frustration of potentially pitting you against overskilled players or the boredom of stomping underskilled players. There is a reason real life competitions have skill brackets. The best play against the best and the newbies play against the newbies. You don’t see a competitive basketball team contain both LeBron James and Brittle-bones Magee, the guy whose never held a ball in his life.
SBMM has been around for decades in gaming and has been a part of some of the most beloved shooters of all time. The fact Activision found a way to twist it into something awful in the last five years doesn’t mean the concept is a bad one. I’d even go as far as to say pure SBMM could have actually buoyed player numbers, by protecting new, low skill, and casual players from getting dropped into lobbies with (no offense) guys like you. At least allowing the option to continue in the skill-based intro lobbies indefinitely alongside the random matchmaking lobbies could have stemmed at least SOME of the player churn.
That’s because it’s not awful. The literal ONLY people who complain about SBMM are streamers, content creators and try hards. Average players have no issue with it. 90% of the player base doesn’t mind playing people in their skill level. People complain about SBMM because they are in high tier lobbies and get tired of sweating but that’s who they are. What people really mean is “I want to be put against players below my skill level so I can have an easier time”
@toptiertech7291 god, could you imagine if LeBron one day just went “I’m tired of having to try my ass off every game against these pros. I should be allowed to go play middle school JV teams. It’ll be fun for them too because getting stomped 200-0 will inspire them to want to suck less.”
If you are proud of being good at a game, you should be proud to have to sweat your ass off every, single match against other good players. Why would any self-respecting good player even want to be in the same lobby as someone who picked up the game that day? If anything, demanding no SBMM as a good or great player is, in fact, demanding to be ‘put into lobbies that make you feel like a god’.
So none of this is "brand new" season 2 has been out since September 😂
Bro been sitting in this video for 2 months 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 he really likes xdefiant tho 😂😂😂😂😂😂 content creators have literally put themselves on notice..not to be trusted.. they do not speak fir anyone but themselves and a select few
I loved this game but I left a long time ago because of the issues with stability and my oh my the snipers. In a game like this with a longer ttk snipers took the fun out of the game on every map and gamemode. I played back when it released for about 30 ish hours, my friends got a few guns gold till they changed how to get gold too and they stopped playing and we kept up w updates for months too but we didnt like the direction the game went
Wow I've never seen something implode this quickly. All those years of beta development, it finally comes out, and now it's already shutting down after a year. I'm surprised. I would've thought being a free Call of Duty would have made it an instant hit, especially with all the faux-ire online towards SBMM. But in all honesty I tried it once or twice, and didn't touch it much after myself. I imagine player numbers weren't great or cosmetic/battlepass purchases were too low to justify continuing. It seems strange though to make the big investment of building this entire game, then shut it down almost immediately after. It takes minimal effort to just keep the game running as is and pay a few artists to put out new cosmetics to sell every week/month. The marginal cost is low, while the opportunity for income is greater. But I'm sure the economics of it doesn't add up for them. It must be a real cash burner for them to jump ship so quickly.
If xdefiant was made by any other publisher other then Ubisoft,EA or activision it would be a great game
No it wouldn’t 😂 it would be even worse because it wouldn’t have a budget
ThE cOD kiLLeR
People just need to stop with the “Game killer” tag line I’ve yet to see any game with this label actually go anywhere that just ends up flopping in the end🤷🏻
@@UnknownHome42 What're you talking about. Wuthering Waves is the Genshin killer
It's the internet do you really expect clickbait bullshit to go away?
@@heavenlyvirtue8367quite a contender😂
Only game that succeeded at that ironically is CoD which the first one was known internally as “Medal of Honor killer”.
But yeah, calling any game an “X Killer” is setting very unrealistic expectations.
@@latro5002the problem is that doing that invited direct comparisons. As a brand new game you don’t want direct comparisons to the biggest and best
I don't like sbmm, but without it, new people don't join your game, because when they do, they get CRUSHED by the game's veterans... it's a necessary evil to maintain a community.
Its not,if that were the case then none of the muktiplayer games since the dawn of time wouldnt work or sell well
@bigbig54 u know that they had it right? The problem with cod is that they abuse of it... i just to strong.
@@drk-designer9651 yeah,thats what i meant, they have to have some sort of matchmaking but if it gets to spevific it becomes a problem
@@bigbig54SBMM is necessary. How many multiplayer games today have zero SBMM? There’s a reason. If I’ve been playing the game for 3 hours there’s no reason I should be in a lobby with people who have played it for 400 hours.
@@toptiertech7291 just bc they have them doesnt mean they need them... multiplyer was good before and now you are litteraly setup to lose or win depending on the mercy of matchmaking
Battlefield works just fine without it
Yes ,there is no reason ,but obviously i dont mean zero matchmaking,every game had some but EOMM(engadement based match making)has no place in games
First rainbow six extraction now xdefiant damn ubisoft what is happening to u 😢
It's the market correcting itself.
alternate title: acknowledging xdefiant
It caught everyone by surpirse? This was widely reported for months
@@ReptilianBoomer And Mark Rubin kept saying again and again that it was BS💀
I mean the head developer said they had no plans to shut down the game after season 4 just like a month ago. It’s still season 2😂
Love the game, but uninstalled it right away as I just don't want to spend more time on something I know is doomed. Fuck Ubisoft. I hate rigged COD, but love this type of game. Now there's nothing to play again.
If you love it, you can still enjoy it while it's still there. You still have a good 6 months before it dies. Think of it like this. This game was meant to imitate classic CoD, and CoD games before 2019 basically had a 1 year life span anyway online. So it dies as it lived, a true CoD clone to the very end.
😂😂😂😂 says he likes the game but never made any videos on it cod community is a different kind of special people
Ikr lol, he’s only here cuz of that bag he doesn’t care. The whole video is literally just a 10 min advertisement reading from a list lmao. He even plug in a ss2 gold pack in the middle lol.
And the fact that he’s only lv 14 even tho he said that he play for hours. Idk why he need to lie his ass off for the bag but ok 😂😂
True. Although he's not the only RUclipsr to not do so to be fair to him.
Been playing since day 1 and ill be there on the day of its funerL. My jaw hit the ground last night when I heard. Ubisoft has been failing game after game...I thought since this was one of their very few games with its head above water that it would be safe...for now.
Lmao i love how people were acting like this game was gunna be a cod killer because no SBMM/EOMM. Huh, guess the matchmaking system focused on keeping players engaged and having balanced matches thats supported by mountains of data keeps more players. Plus the camo and challenges were such ass
It was a good run......
It’s not Xdefiant Ubisoft is going down, look at the new AC game, they haven’t made a new division game either, rough times for Ubisoft
The game began falling about a month and a half after launch, I know u people wanna hate on Ubisoft but just face it the game was never gonna survive
Ubisoft sponsoring a video about their own direct failure is wild 💀
sign the save xdefiant petition and share it changeorg
nothing is gonna change dude lol its ubislop we are talking about
@@sesuneirooh u poor thing the game was failing long ago yall just couldn’t get it through ur heads it was never going to survive and had nothing to do with Ubisoft 😂
You realise companies exist to make money & they’re not going to lose more money just because people signed a petition
“Oh you signed a free petition? I guess we will just keep eating 100k+ losses a month now”. Maybe you should have bought some bundles
Lmao the cod killer lasted not even a year loooooool
Honestly i wouldnt have played but idk i like cod too much
The “cod killer”
I stopped playing due to slow progression and bad hit reg as there are no servers in my country, but I did have high hopes for it
Yep takes for ever to level up guns for attachments so players that have them swipe out new players! They really let the game die
Wow 😂 Not really surprising though.
Should have released on steam ubisoft loves to commit sudoku with their games lol
ubisoft sponser 😭😭😭ch0pper 😞
The game was released in the exact same condition as the beta. To this day, hitsscan is a major issue with ghost bullets happening every 2-3 gunfights. No ultimate goal in the game, progression was ABYSMAL. 3 weapon level a match if you’re LUCKY. Shit camo. Shit game modes. Shit abilities. The game was ass. Imagine if a CoD game released and the bullets you were firing just stopped working. It’d be fixed in a weekend. The fact that xdefiant has this issue TO THIS DAY is just unacceptable as a player. So glad I dumped this heap of garbage after 200 hours
Mannnn I was about to try thisss!! I can't even go download it... sad
Everything wrong with the gaming industry today.
Hey guys, dont forget to buy your Black Cell Pass and get an XP Boost
There is literally still no progression. The script they sent you to read was inaccurate in that part.
I really enjoyed the game but it getting delayed by over a year with nothing to show for it and having god awful hit detection at release really killed the momentum of the game.
Edit: Forgot to mention the movement nerfs
R.I.P To everyone Who thought this would kill cod
its funny watching the SBMM driders taking this as a W and how they are right
Cuz they kinda are, u can be mad about it all u want but facts are facts 🤷
@@fenrirsfolly92sure thing bot
SBMM only works for the bottom 10% of players. It doesn't increase player retention for those who know how it works. The moment I get my super fun or high score match, I'll play a different game or do something else entirely because I know it hasn't been since CoD WW2 where lobbies didn't disband and you could actually make friends and have some sort of fun socializing and not just playing.
@@LunaPPK facts don’t care about your feelings
@@fenrirsfolly92 yet tthe bot is still dulu sure kid
6:14 me watching the video in 144p like: yeah sure whatever you say
When I did try playing it and it was not Fun and felt like it was sweaty and had a lot of try hards and I didn’t like the gun play and it felt it had more sbmm
this is the funniest thing I've heard all day
So are they gonna say why? They’re faq doesn’t say why it was shut down?
Probably because they can’t keep players a while back they said they couldn’t even keep 20k
I think any benefits the game would get from being free to play was mitigated by the lack of sbmm, pushing new players away
What do we do now?
Free to play kinda killed it it’s not a game for everyone but the people who enjoyed could’ve just payed to play the game instead of just expecting people to spend money on the item shop or on battle passes
Free to play works with lots of other games--CS:GO, Fortnite, etc. If this game were paid, there would be zero reason to buy it over actual, real CoD. The entire premise of XDefiant was that it was like a free Call of Duty game.
@ yes it works when people are spending money on the game but with xdefiant if people payed to play they could’ve put that money into giving people more content
The only first person shooter I have liked since the MCC came out. I think I am officially done with arena FPS for good.
How long is it going to take to get titanium prisma on my m4a1? Currently level 115
I really wanted to like this game and gave it a pretty good shot during season1, maybe 50 hours or so. But I just didn't end up liking it. I really wanted this to be serious competition for COD, which has always been my main. But I always ended up going back to COD, despite the oppressive SBMM. Never went back to it once bo6 launched. I liked the maps and general gunplay, but didn't like the "super powers".
Won’t miss it
Wait you mean this isn't sarcasm, folks really honestly didn't see this game shutting down?
Right?
Never played it, knew it would flop just like any other “cod killer”
Whats funny is that concord actually lasted longer than xdefiant in terms of development time
Back to singleplayer games exclusively now. I absolutely refuse to ever engange with these BS SBMM algorithms ever again. They don’t deserve a penny from my wallet or a second of my playtime.
The game is dog shit anyway it a joke of a game where the fuck is the splinter cell game they promised years ago
They should have put it on steam
Ubisoft is such a shit company.
sucks, game was one of the best in the genre
I never liked the game, and no im not a ubisoft hater
Yes let's go 😂😂. I hated this game with a passion. This game was full of sweats and elitist. The git good crowd obliterated me and talking about i started from the bottom so do you. Guess where this game is going back to u guessed right the scrapyard. It feels bittersweet knowing the cod killer couldn't dethrone the goat cod 😂😅. Also the lack of sbmm couldn't keep players so now what?
bros pushing a pvp game to pve fanbase, aint no one cares
The only real competition left for COD multi-player is Battlefield and Halo.
Halo really needs a Playstation release. If Sony can put MLB on Xbox, Microsoft can put Halo on PS5.
Nope
No chance.
If only they released it on Steam
Thats litteraly not the reason and it doesnt matter if its on steam or notits free and the ubisoft app is just like any other client to play games and its free plus it got good marketing but still its not a COD killer because COD has to many players and its just not the same
Play it somewhere else, and u really believe that’s the reason? 😂
Big oof ... Glad I didn't invest any time / money into this and only played it during the first week it lunched.
Nah I'm glad I did sbmm needs to go away permanently
@@therealjuice38that’s not how the overall gaming community sees it
I blame tictok kids attention span is gone is why fortnite does seasons monthly almost instead of 3months 6months
The cod killer
The people that wanted Xdefiant to beat CoD are same people playing Bo6 right now. Hold that L gamers. CoD is unstoppable, you couldnt stop yourself from playing CoD if you tried.
A real one would want any other game to defeat cod so they CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A GOOD call of duty GAME…
Okay but that's not a healthy mindset to have regardless of the many flaws of XDEFIANT it needed to stay in the sphere so cod would actually have a reason to innovate and try to do better that's what competition does with capitalisim.
Its definitely not that healthy to say that but cod innovation never works I've never seen a time cod innovated past bo2 that anyone liked
I stopped playing cod… it’s the same shit every year. People shouldn’t just give them money if they aren’t making any good games.
Make sure to zip up activisions pants when your done.
The game sucked in my opinion straight off the back
First
I hate this game
Same
This game was not that good
I'm so glad this garbage game is gone
cheaters ruined it
Ubisoft is such a shit company.