This kid made tons of negative videos about xdefiant when the game was around now hes on a huge copium tank that the game actually isn’t going to shutdown. Ok buddy lmfao
Never been here before but I looked at his channel. "Xdefiant content creator" lol well makes sense why... what I dont know is why he picked this game to invest in, this was never going to be that popular. The Finals only kind of is, after this much time and had a way better launch
@@edmxero2029 every game will have content creators whether you like the game or not or if the game only lasts a short time there will be ppl who do yt vids about it as for the finals that was on the verge of being cancelled (if memory serves me right) and had to make major changes and this is where ubi let xd down as they have now gone into survival mode in the hopes that ac shadows will save them and put them in a better position for a tencent buy out while warding off other companies who will shred ubi , so xd didnt get the chance to make the changes needed.
@@yearsoftearsyup, I quoted reports of concurrent players dropping below 20,000 on all platforms for him to say “they’re not confirmed numbers” but seems to have them now? Dude is a brainwashed clown just making up whatever he’s gotta say to try and prove his make believe narrative. I tried to be nice at first, but this is straight up embarrassing
Look man. You gotta stop. At this point, you're not just grasping as straws; you're grasping at ghosts. XDefiant is not coming back, regardless of who owns Ubisoft. I'm not saying this to dunk on you. I'm saying this because that is the cold, hard reality of the situation. The studio that made it is shuttered. The devs that made it are gone. It's over. And the other cold, hard reality is that lack of player spending and lack of players in general ARE major factors in why it got the axe. There are other factors, sure, but to pretend those two things are just lies made up by people who don't like XDefiant is willful ignorance at this point. The game's player count didn't just decline naturally like games like For Honor; it CRATERED. Touting the 15 million downloads as if that's a reason it couldn't possibly have failed on player count is just not true. What the decision-makers at Ubisoft saw was "We had 15,000,000 downloads, but are struggling to get even 20,000 people to play." That is a difference of almost 99.2%. That's not just unnatural, that's DEVASTATING. Ubisoft doesn't care what the numbers were, only what they are NOW in comparison to what they were. All the 15 mil did was serve to set expectations to a level that couldn't possibly be sustainable for what was, ultimately a decent game with niche appeal. And if it had marketed itself as a decent game with niche appeal, those expectations might have been set more realistically, but it set out to be the CoD Killer. Ubisoft admitted as much. And when you only have that small number of players, you have to assume the VAST majority are not going to spend a dime. I'm sure Ubisoft will never release hard numbers, but the idea that a fraction of 20,000 being payers was sustainable just isn't believable. Was what happened to XDefiant sad? Yeah. Was what happened to XDefiant because it was bad? No. Was what happened to XDefiant SOLELY caused by bad player numbers and low user spending? No. But you can't pretend those WEREN'T factors and claim anyone saying otherwise is lying and that Tencent is gonna swoop in like a knight in shining armor and save a game that one company already killed off. Play the hell out of XDefiant while you can. Enjoy it as much as you can. But don't give people false hope.
What do we want? COPIUM When do we want it? NOW PS: This is the same guy that made a video about "why everyone is quitting XDEFIANT?" about a month ago. Surprise, surprise, game dead.
You are cherry picking like crazy to get the information you want to back up your argument and making lots of assumptions. The gaming market and investors and popular genres and lots of other stuff were different in 2017 to 2024. Ubisofts plans for the future and where the company was heading and how successful many of its games were was much different in 2017 then 2024. In 2017 Ubisoft was more successful and had more games helping the company be successful then in 2024. It was much easier for an underperforming game or failing game to be given more time and more if a chance to be successful in 2017 then in 2024 since Ubisoft was making lots more money compared to what they were spending and losing in 2017 compared to 2024. Ubisoft has made a lot of bad business decisions from 2017 to 2024 and they are not the same company anymore. You cannot use anything in ubisofts past as an argument for anything at Ubisoft now to make any comparisons to XDefiant and past Ubisoft titles.
@brydawg2020 yup, if the game had a healthy player count it wouldnt have been shutdown. It's not a hard concept, same thing is happening with suicide squad 🤷🏻♂️
@brydawg2020 No one ever cares about anyone else's comment, why would they? Leaving a comment is helpful for the creator. You sound very bitter and jealous of something, you should talk to a friend, parents or maybe a guidance counselor. Best of luck to you on what seems like a very terrible road.
It’s just makes no sense to hype people up with delays and 2 betas to shut the game down so early….i was having fun and I was actually upset about missing stuff on season 1 battlepass I was grinding harder this season, and now it’s for nothing…such a waste…
I left the game a couple of weeks ago because of low player count. I was waiting from 20 to 35 minutes to fill a lobby and the sad thing is that it was't completely full. Don't get me wrong in here, I played since the game came out until I couldn't anymore, I had like an hour to play and waiting that much was too much for me. I didn't leave cuz of content, but for the waiting times.
Why are people acting like if Xdefiant is the best game they have played in a decade 💀. The cult following for this game is truly something I haven't seen for a while
Because for some it is the best game they've played in a decade, and that's all opinion. Why are people acting like this game wasn't good or didn't have potential?
@NyteFalll I mean if all you play are 6v6 shooters then sure, this is probably the best game you've played in years but in a decade? And this COULD have had potential but I knew from the start that it was gonna be rough for them. For one it's a Ubisoft game, Way too many delays, the problems with Hit reg and Net code was gonna drive people away, the only meaningful advertising was "No SBMM", it released with the same content the beta had which was basically nothing. Sure the game had potential but not the way it was going, the game had major issues and some people are calling it a masterpiece and ignoring the issues. They were trying to aim for the classic 6V6 arcade shooter but add Heroes, Sliding, and bunny hopping when their target audience was Cod Haters who wanted an alternative game to play. Sometimes we have be realistic.
@@NyteFalllit had potential but the game was poorly made. You can't lie about that. And if it had "content" why are we so dry rn? And didn't mark and a few publishers say they had a year of content ready? Why are we so dry then? Also if you been looking at the shop ain't nobody gonna buy that shlop
There are approximately 14975000 players that disagree with you according to Mark Rubin, they released a unfinished game, a first person shooter game on a mmo engine, with as good as none content, it was boring, had way to long grind for anything, and they never fixed the net code, oh, they were talking about everything but they didn’t fix anything in my opinion. You liked the game and it sucks that you lose it, but sometimes big corp, just cut their losses and move on to the next big thing.
Warface is still up with a working shop etc and it has about 15 players. Different dev and publisher sure but it's like 10+ years old and still getting updates...
Bad comparison. Warface has no North American servers so it's not playable in the US. It's also been a gotcha game since launch so pay 2 win whales are what's keeping it alive. If that's what you want Xdefiant to become, be my guest lol.
@@amgvlogs5087 NA servers are still up but for console only. I have had pretty good luck with free guns but I'd be lying if I said the SA Hellion wasn't annoying af lol
Warface have an average daily peak of 40k in Russia and those mfers spend money in this game like crazy, so don't get fooled by steam numbers, Warface is doing very well for almost 10 years old game.
The diff with for honor is it has a pricetag, even siege also had a pricetag Also for honor is probably way less expensive from an infrastructure aspect, the amount of instances per server can be much more compared to 12 ppl per match I think the biggest factor with xd though was def the state of Ubisoft For honor was also released during a time when Ubisoft was in a better place financially For Honor would have been shut down like Concord if it came out this year most likely
I like your content but this is just getting sad at this point. It’s ok to move on to newer and better things. At some point youve got to realize it’s over and that the guy failed both financially and critically no mater how much the small communtiy of fans like it.
Fun fact kiddos: (age demographic 30 to 40s) if you're signing a petition for a company to bring a certain ip back maybe not the smartest thing to do is shit on said company in the petition your just making it worse for yourselves..
Who ever is giving you the info that over thanksgiving xdefiant beat out R6 is lying, on steam alone R6 is beating those concurrent playercount numbers never mind console or uplay
I'm sorry but the Tencent saving the game comments are pure cope, I *LOVED* XDefiant but less than 20k players is NOT sustainable and with the team disbanded you'd have to retrain a whole dev team to pick up where the previous one left. The cost to even BEGIN THINKING OF, not even actually doing so, restarting development would be more than the money season 2 brought in. I do believe if given enough time the game could've succeeded to carve out a niche but now at this point it's too late. The best we could hope for is years later a squeal that's compete at launch.
Let's just hope Ubisoft come to their senses. Or whoever buys them out does. And realizes, Xdefiant has something Cod never will. The sense of community with the devs. And a dedicated community behind it
@aaronjamesjackson5042 @bobmowat7190 . Sorry for being optimistic about something I like. You guys are completely right. Xdefiant was such a bad idea. I should have never played that game. It's not like I (As in Me, not you) had more fun with Xdefiant than with any other FPS game.
First of all, why would it go mobile? They already have CoD mobile? They could easily sustain it as a platform game and I highly doubt they'd make it pay to win. And even if they did in some way people would still play it
@NyteFalll I'm telling you. People will say whatever comes first to their mind. And make stuff up to "prove their point". What point did these 2 "Twonks" , that xdefiant was dying. If they watched the video they commented on for 3 minutes. They would realize their entire argument is as stable as a pencil balancing on the eraser.
@@NyteFalll the point is that xd wont go mobile it will be forgotten, they will just can it, also all tencent is known for is mobile games so why would they care about xd for?
If tencent took control of the game sbmm and eomm would be implemented instantly. you do realize that right? They openly admit to doing it in League of Legends as bad as cod if not even worse then cod. Comparing it to for honor is ridiculous as well. For honor is a fully fleshed out game with way more to offer all around. Plenty to unlock as well as single player and mp. I wanted xdefiant to succeed but they dropped the ball fast. Ran like shit 95% of the time. Had little to nothing to work towards at all to unlock in the game. A battle pass that moves slower then snails humping uphill as well as not much to offer throughout it.unbalanced weapons, you had to use meta builds to stand a chance, couldn’t just work on random guns, let’s not forget they constantly nerfed damn near anything people cry about. God forbid they try to balance it more with some buffs nope just super nerf everything. As others said the development team is no more. Xdefiant served its purpose but was so poorly handled. Nothing is going to save this game. Enjoy what’s left of it and keep in mind it is not the only competition out there for cod. Plenty of free shooters coming delta force being one of them. That one will be free and include a single player as well as mp. That game may even suck as well point being xdefiant is not the only good shooter out there that is competition to cod and it’s manipulative ass ways. Not going to bother with the petition as this game cannot be saved nor is worth it.
Let it go dude. Most of us have already uninstalled it and cant re-install it anymore so they cant get their players back if they tried. Its over. Move on with your life. Plenty of better games to play and stream/make content on. Delta Force and Marvel Rivals are both free.
@@NyteFalll you’re comparing For Honor’s player count 7 years after launch with XDefiant’s player count 6 months after launch. What were For Honor’s numbers like during that period? You’re cherry picking incompatible data and pretending it means something.
@@NyteFalll Yet I'm pretty sure For Honor was around after 6 months 🤷 why are you comparing two entirely different games bro the cope is insane let it go 🤦
The game was DOA. It didn’t come out on steam, Xbox one or PS4. That’s like 60% of all gamers. So now you have 40% of gamers left. You might get 1-2% to play the game. Then you remove SBMM. Now you have 0.3%-1%. Now how many of those players will buy bundles and battle passes. The game cost over $1 million a month just paying the devs. It wasn’t making 3/4ths of that. The devs lied. They talked about non disbanding lobbies on release. Never happened. Mark Rubin kept comparing it to “old school cod”. Is BO4 old school? What old school cod had abilities like invisibility? They marketed this game as something it wasn’t. Then had the worst netcode for an fps game on release. Ubisoft didn’t help but the Devs are to blame here for marketing it to get expectations it shouldn’t have
Fair to say that they marketed it incorrectly, but to say it failed because it wasn't on old gen consoles is insane. Steam sure, but not older consoles. Those consoles you're talking about are like 12 years old at this point and the news ones have been out for 4 we can't just keep making games for old gen consoles.
@ that would make sense if PlayStation hadn’t recently said that HALF of their playerbase is still on ps4. This looked like a flash game. The graphics weren’t good. It wasn’t detailed. Why couldn’t it be on PS4? BO6 is on there. Removing the option for half of console gamers to play your games CERTAINLY contributed to it
During daily rewards they gifted for free the coins to buy the battlepass to 300k people(source of these numbers? ) so you can't say, they had a profit of 3milions... Coins was FREE.
It's not the parent Company tho. It's a really complicated system. Basically imagine it's a company that controls a fund. That fund Company is completely different from Ubisoft but gets controlled by the Guillemot Family. The Guillemot Family control that fund company and it controls it's shares. In 2022, Tencent bought a 49.9 percent stake in Guillemot Brothers Ltd for $297 million. That means Tencent overall owns around 9%. Even Yves Guillemot iirc owns around 20%. But like mentioned it's not a parent company but rather a Fund controlling investment company.
You should look at For Honors steam charts between 2020-2022 There was a 2 year time period where For Honor was averaging over 100,000 players each month just on steam (Xdifiant maybe did this for 4 months) The reality is For Horner made the money back it cost to make the game something that XDefiant didn't do For Honor sold 35 million copies and XDefiant did 15 mill downloads. For Honor cost money 30$ so everyone reading this can do a rough estimate how much it made just from copies sold For Honor is also heavily monetize 1 character depending how old said character is can be up to 5$ just for one character This is 100% a money problem if XDefiant made back what it cost to make you would not see them closing
lets do a quick estimate. Most prolly bought For Honor on sale so lets say 15 out 35 million got it full price and if you do the math there its 450,000,000$ lol and thats just counting 15 mill copies, and from everything i seen For Honor had a budget of 75$ mill This is why For Honor is staying up and not XDefiant. They have enough money to run this game for the next 10+ years Im really surprise you didn't see this insight before talking, but i kinda understand your trying to make videos on this before it gets shut down
@@imaginarymenageriemanager6303 We can assume. and even if you take a low number like 5 milli 5,000,000 x 30 = 150,000,000 This is still 4x what XDefiant made lol This is 100% a money problem. If XDefiant made back what it cost to make the game it would still be up and the owner of this video knows this and that's why he hasn't commented on my stuff cause he knows he would lose in a argument
At this point, just stop talking about the game. it's dead. Yes, it was a fun game. But the petition will never work they dont care. And also 300k claiming daily rewards can you link us a source to where you got them numbers from because it seems like your just throwing bs numbers around
I don’t get why they can’t come to terms with reality. The lead made a statement the games shutting down. They gave everyone everything. The store is gone. It’s over. Grow up and move on.
In about 10yrs, the data preservation from so many tech guys of these games and the hack/mod communities creating fake server proxies to make the game data believe it’s still online, is gonna be a very big thing. Not just because this is a game in the era of “history erasure”, where no physical mediums hold the data needed to play these live games… but because this game DID make a dent in the CoD sector. And that xdefiant themesong tune alone is enough to get anyone that played this game comatose in nostalgia overload years from now. This game’s gonna survive in the longterm.
@@NyteFalll And x defiant died in 6 months so what’s your point you’re too much of a small RUclipsr to matter in the grand scheme of things so you’re just flogging a dead horse.The Game will be shutdown free to play players continue to cry💀 twitch number don’t equal player count you beta male
Xdefiant was literally dead no one was playing it anymore man it had a 80 million dollar budget for honors was a paid game so they got some money back whereas Xdefiant was free too play it was too much money to keep the dead game going
Now who's coping lol. I just showed you people were playing it, had more concurrent players that Siege during the week of thanksgiving. Even when presented with numbers people like you still try to find ways to lie about why this game got shut down, it's insane
I think the main reason for shutting down is Finances. I've calculated around $2m to keep it running on a monthly basis (this includes wages, rent, bills, etc), this plus with share holder dividends xdefiant probably needs to be generating like $4m monthly for Ubisoft to see this as a feasible investment. Im not even accounting for the sunk cost recovery of this games 6 year development. But sadly the game was only probably generating around $10k-$20k monthly. Ubisoft probably accounted for a drop in player base from the initial peak of 15m by 60%, this still left them with enough players to at least cover its cost till the game was ironed out and marketing efforts were made. But unfortunately there was a drop by like 99%, which only left a few thousand players playing. So even if Season 3 went right and player population was boosted by 200% it meant that they would still only be making around like $50k per month, which is not even close to covering their expenses. Not to mention that most of the remaining players on this game were broke and didnt invest in the game (this is typical of a free game, but unfortunately the population was so the low cash cows moved back to cod and only people with no spending power were left). This coupled with the companies current situation made it impossible to keep the game going.
You said it best. Xdefiants failure is collateral damage in the failure of ubisoft... The game was doing fine... maybe it didnt meet expectations set by the release but it was plenty healthy/: Weve been screwed..
Imagine that this movement has been just a media strategy to make a bomb relaunch with the game in perfect conditions, a higher content cadence, a world XD tournament, etc...
i had a theory about that, more feasible: announce the shut down up the player count launch s3 up even more the player count if it stays at a constant number keep the game alive. the only flaw is the removal of the downloads
Then you wouldnt be playing XD...I love these non sensical hissy fits with no thought put into it without the publisher the gameplay you enjoy wouldn't exist everything is built on snowdrop a game engine specifically built for Ubisoft.
It just breaks my heart seeing XDefiant dead even tho it wasn't in a bad spot at all... I truly hope we can change something about the shutdown and kick Ubisoft in the ass
NGL I only downloaded the game to get the free daily log in reward, but never played a single game. Just wanted to get free coins for a future faction I might want to play.
Nytefall's views on XDefiant and its future seem to be highly delusional and disconnected from the reality of the gaming industry. His belief that the game will not shut down is unrealistic, especially given the challenges the game has faced in terms of player retention, competition, and the lack of substantial updates. XDefiant has struggled to maintain a strong player base, and with Ubisoft’s recent history of canceling or shutting down underperforming games, it's hard to see how Nytefall’s optimism holds up. His takes seem to ignore the broader context of game development cycles, market trends, and the financial pressures on companies to sustain a game. This leads to a skewed perspective that does not align with the general consensus or the game's trajectory.😂😂😂😂 your content is terrible
Tencent are really good at cosmetics and upholding free games that people actually enjoy like cod mobile. Has similar movement to xd as well. Also yearly championship tournaments. Don’t underestimate them cause they do mobile game
Nyte... you are merely playing with numbers here, if Tencent would to buy out Ubisoft, xdefiant will immediately be cutted because it is underperforming by comparison to Call of Duty mobile and believe it or not Tencent is currently working on full fletched PC port to COD mobile, they simply do not need another game that is in the same genre especially the one that is far behind what they already have. Your comparison to For Honor is not exactly fair either, For Honor is a fighting game, these were always more of a niche games and while, yes in raw numbers For Honor is behind xdefiant however, in its respective genre For Honor is one of the most popular game, ahead of games like Tekken 8, Mortal Kombat 11, Mortal Kombat 1 and Injustice 2 and its all time peak is Higher than even Street Fighter 6, so by no means For Honor is an outsider, meanwhile let's look at xdefiant, let's say that it had an online of around 40k players during thanksgiving, well I am sorry but it is really, really bad, for example for Warface Russian made pay2win trash 40k is an average daily peak, while needless to say that average player of Warface spends waaaay more money in the game, yes while on paper, in raw numbers things are good, but perspective matter and in perspective xdefiant hasn't been doing very well, Ubisoft has had big expectations for xdefiant and xdefiant did not lived up to them, even CEO of Ubisoft himself acknowledged that.
@@Umbralogy I'm not defending this game, I actually enjoy playing all kinds of games! I didn't mean to come off as offending anyone or to spark comments, just sharing my thoughts!
What is the incentive to liquidate assets like XDefiant before a buyout (assuming it's making them money like you claim)? Doesn't that just lower the valuation of the company?
I highly doubt that, for a whole month, i couldn't even get into a match. it's not even an internet issue, i keep seeing people joining in and leaving, and its the same 3 people too.
I’ve never seen what you are talking about, the lobbies are always full. Now ranked play is dead on xdefiant for sure. But casual play is alive and well. I think it’s the marketing more than anything else. That’s what took part in it shutting down June of next year.
@@steviej5744For me, finding a lobby takes at minimum 3 minutes for it to fill the lobby with players, then do that stupid “creating match” loading screen, then we can vote on the map, then we wait for the timer, then we wait for it to load to finally get into the game, this has been my experience ever since launch, and it wasn’t a network issue, bc my ping is always in the 20-30 range, then when people left the lobby mid game, nobody ever replaced them
lol still coping uh? Let’s talk about some things you left out… Forhonor released in 2017 XDefiant released in 2024 Imagine having less viewership than a game that came out almost a decade ago. XDefiant is dead will always be dead and the result of that is because it’s a bad game. Nobody is bringing this game back lol. You keep talking about 10 mil 15 mil players… bruh that tells you how bad the game was EVERYONE LEFT expect weirdos like you 😂
No one's coping, you clearly didn't watch the video til the end or you just didn't understand the numbers. The year they released doesn't matter. XDefiant has more players left just prior to the shutdown than For Honor had in it's first 6 months. So then why wasn't For Honor shut down? A lot of people left sure, but 300,000 claiming daily login rewards shows it was just a lack of content and they could easily come back
My reply before it was deleted: Nothing you say matters when all I have to reply with is the game struggles to gain 100 unique viewers on a streaming platform. It’s like that for a reason. Because the vast majority agree the game isn’t good. The most accurate and unpopular reason this game died is because washed up people like you, blame truth and JB can’t keep your mouth shut about call of duty. Every time any of you have something to say about XDefiant you have to say something about call of duty in the same sentence 😂. You sir are the reason this game died is dead and will not be coming back. So please shut up with the complaining and the reaching for why this game got shutdown for any reason other then 90% of players didn’t like it. Prolly gonna delete again but I’ll copy and paste it back.
@mrab9304 I'm not deleting anything bro relax lol. But you can copy and paste all you want it doesn't change the fact that XDefiant had more viewers on Twitch post shutdown notice than For Honor does. So your still not telling me why For Honor doesn't shut down because it's having the same issues
@@NyteFalll 😂😂😂😂😂😂 yeah those are terrible numbers in case you didn’t know. You don’t even make money on that… The guy you tried to call out for being a “grifter” (Eight Thoughts) pulls abt 50k a video on an average day and up to 2 million on a good day and has been making videos since 2009. You’re not that guy pal, sit tf down with your little baby voice
I don't know how it is with other people, but coming from CoD It was way more likely for me to buy a cosmetic in XDefiant then CoD. I see it this way; why give them another 28 Euros for a boring skin on wich they just put a rat head with googly eyes, when I already paid 70-80 € for the game. On the other hand, there is XDefiant wich is free and has at least the same or even better quality then every CoD game of the recent years. I don't even thougt about regretting buying any cosmetic or battle pass, till I reached like 60 €, because it is the amount we normaly would have to pay for a game like this.
Well I mean there is a significant difference at this point one game is over priced flashy garbage but on the other hand XD has you tracking down your distributer that you bought said BP/skins from in order to get a refund. Unfortunately I think BO6 won this battle this time around.
i signed but i need do do 1 more step and thats to fund or to share i can not fund just because i cant pay woth paypal or credit card so i chose for distributing it around te net but when i did i still needed to do the last step. is that a bug or ???? becaise i think u mis out a lot of people who can complete the last step
@@NyteFalll as someone who fully supported the game and is lvl 200. the game has like a 5% chance of ever returning man, they didn't shut it down bc they just felt like doing it. and we all know this game has had a lackluster community and was always dragging by with the limited amount of players we've seen personally. there was potential but that's entirely gone
@@mellowistaken i watched it and there's generally a lot of misleading information, he also makes a comparison between a high maintenance FPS game vs For Honor. these games are entirely different and came out at entirely different times, and as others have pointed out, for honor likely would've been shut down as well if it were released with Ubisoft's current financial situation. if there's anything else i'm missing let me in on it
I love Xdefiant so for those bad comments he is not talking to you. It's for those like me who love this game and what it stands on. Why would you guys hate one that. If it's not your game, keep it pushing and leave the community who wants this game to continue.
i play xd and i think im about lvl 278 and its fun to play as i get kills or deaths due to my good or more often than not bad choices of weapons and routes to take etc , rather than some programme running in the back ground thats going to give you a kill and boost your aim assist as you are dropping below a 1kd level. but. i said to my mates on launch that the game was rushed out (despite rubin saying it wasnt and later altering the camo grind and making it harder and saying thats all they had for the game at launch !) and has almost no content and the net code is bad and this will drive players away (and it did) until the game reaches a core number of players and i didnt think this would be enough for the game to survive esp as it counts on bp and store sales for its survival. this was before all the stuff started coming out about the state of ubi (or rather before i was aware of it) which only made things worse for the game as it made it look like a rush job to try and get some money for ubi who lets face it need it badly and it has become a casualty as ubi go into survival mode as they try to save money and make the company books look a tad better and imho there will be more cuts to come. ubi have a working partnership with tencent and they are looking at them to save them from other companies that are circling around like sharks knowing theres blood in the water as these will rip into ubi without a second thought , so while tencent may not be the best company to buy ubi they could be the least worst option for ubi as the family may still have some power over the company when the dust settles. with this in mind was xd good , it wasnt that good yes it was fun but it really really needed more dev time at the very least and if not that then more time to get up and running and this is down to ubi and mismanagement and in part rubin who popped up on twitter and started taking snide shots at cod (there is a map in xd where on the loading screen its says "the past is dead" was this a cryptic msg?) that basically got all the toobers shouting about it and because it had rubins name attached it became "the cod killer", if it had more dev time we may not have seen it at all given the state of ubi ! , and looking at the leak of the ac "skin" then i dont think ac shadows will save them it will be a short term blip that brings some money in but not enough. will xd come back ? , there is a small chance if tencent force the deal through quickly and by that i mean done and dusted by summer 25 at the latest before the date of the servers going offline (which may happen sooner) and what the devs have been working on hasnt been wiped from ubi's servers , if we get s3 (and i wouldnt be surprised if we dont atm , just because they said we will doesnt mean anything esp as the current dev team has all but gone) and its the improvements they promised and they are nearing a deal to buy ubi tencent may say fire it back up or at the least let ppl dl the game again and then we can see the reaction(s) while we finish the deal and look at what can be salvaged , as for the devs being fired that doesnt really mean anything as there are 1000s of devs out there looking for work and sometimes a new team can work wonders (and yes it can go the other way) and they dont actually need rubin back as all the frame work will have been done for the game , yes its a lot of ifs in there. sorry for the long post.
@@Xsavagementailty I'm sorry that you are slow at reading but if it would take you more than say 3 minutes to read it then you probably wouldn't understand it.
The only issue I would have is Tencent making it primarily mobile. I was playing CoD Mobile when it first started, but it was heavy on the battery and control support was horrible, at least on Droid.
@@jonathanwilson1539 actually it would be better to do it like Fortnite, and have it as a mobile/console/pc game. Mobile users far surpass the amount of users on Console and PC combined. Could bring the player count up to near 100k at least.
Imma just say it. To all of the people that say "Xdefiant is a cod killer" or "I hope Xdefiant fails bag blah blah." Respectfully shut it. Any game that has "xxx Killer" ruins the game as a whole. Let's get something straight. Xdefiant is not a cod killer. it's a cod competitor. XDefiant and Cod, while similar, are also vastly different. Yes, they are both FPS shooters, and yes, they are team games, but XDefiant is an arcade hero shooter, while cod is more of a tactical shooter game. Not everyone likes the high ability usage that games like Xdefiant has. Like Nytefall has said, some people prefer my gun vs. your gun with minor ability play. And others don't like simply gun v gun. For a game to be considered a "xxx killer," it needs to do something similar but way better it can't stray too far from the game it's tryna kill. Xdefiant strays too far from cod due to the abilities. And let's be real. Nothing can kill cod besides 2 things. The community and Activison are the only things that can really kill cod. And for people who wanted this shutdown as I said earlier Xdefiant is a competitor and as Nytefall and every single person that knows this Competition is needed for a better product.
Not only the game was stale as fuck but the cheery was since launch you get shot far around the corner fam, what happens when you put a fps game on a MMO platform. All said that's not gonna work. Here we are buy Felicia
Tencent like free games and make money off them, Ubisoft we be no more when there next game is a flop and as it will be as they have now pissed off a lot of players with XD dearth! Look at the share price ! The only reason the game (XD)has been kept live is because of a buyout by tencent early next year ! Otherwise why would you even bother with season three and keeping the servers on !!! Tencent want XD it will make them money !
That might be accurate, but 277 employees is the total number of employees across 2 sites they shut down not all the SF one plus the budget for the game was 80 million which included salaries
It's over brother we all got duped
This kid made tons of negative videos about xdefiant when the game was around now hes on a huge copium tank that the game actually isn’t going to shutdown. Ok buddy lmfao
He's like that sad green meme frog with the copium mask on but the tank is running low 😂
Never been here before but I looked at his channel. "Xdefiant content creator" lol well makes sense why... what I dont know is why he picked this game to invest in, this was never going to be that popular. The Finals only kind of is, after this much time and had a way better launch
@@edmxero2029tbf the beta had 8m players with 1.5m on release.
Pathetic
@@edmxero2029 every game will have content creators whether you like the game or not or if the game only lasts a short time there will be ppl who do yt vids about it as for the finals that was on the verge of being cancelled (if memory serves me right) and had to make major changes and this is where ubi let xd down as they have now gone into survival mode in the hopes that ac shadows will save them and put them in a better position for a tencent buy out while warding off other companies who will shred ubi , so xd didnt get the chance to make the changes needed.
300k claiming daily rewards... Source: Trust me, Bro.
There is no link in the description
he's literally just pulling all these numbers out of his ass its super embarassing
@@yearsoftearsyup, I quoted reports of concurrent players dropping below 20,000 on all platforms for him to say “they’re not confirmed numbers” but seems to have them now? Dude is a brainwashed clown just making up whatever he’s gotta say to try and prove his make believe narrative. I tried to be nice at first, but this is straight up embarrassing
Cope harder doggy. Yall really out here being pathetic
The dude is coping very very hard lmfao
Look man. You gotta stop. At this point, you're not just grasping as straws; you're grasping at ghosts. XDefiant is not coming back, regardless of who owns Ubisoft. I'm not saying this to dunk on you. I'm saying this because that is the cold, hard reality of the situation. The studio that made it is shuttered. The devs that made it are gone. It's over.
And the other cold, hard reality is that lack of player spending and lack of players in general ARE major factors in why it got the axe. There are other factors, sure, but to pretend those two things are just lies made up by people who don't like XDefiant is willful ignorance at this point. The game's player count didn't just decline naturally like games like For Honor; it CRATERED. Touting the 15 million downloads as if that's a reason it couldn't possibly have failed on player count is just not true. What the decision-makers at Ubisoft saw was "We had 15,000,000 downloads, but are struggling to get even 20,000 people to play." That is a difference of almost 99.2%. That's not just unnatural, that's DEVASTATING. Ubisoft doesn't care what the numbers were, only what they are NOW in comparison to what they were. All the 15 mil did was serve to set expectations to a level that couldn't possibly be sustainable for what was, ultimately a decent game with niche appeal. And if it had marketed itself as a decent game with niche appeal, those expectations might have been set more realistically, but it set out to be the CoD Killer. Ubisoft admitted as much. And when you only have that small number of players, you have to assume the VAST majority are not going to spend a dime. I'm sure Ubisoft will never release hard numbers, but the idea that a fraction of 20,000 being payers was sustainable just isn't believable.
Was what happened to XDefiant sad? Yeah. Was what happened to XDefiant because it was bad? No. Was what happened to XDefiant SOLELY caused by bad player numbers and low user spending? No. But you can't pretend those WEREN'T factors and claim anyone saying otherwise is lying and that Tencent is gonna swoop in like a knight in shining armor and save a game that one company already killed off. Play the hell out of XDefiant while you can. Enjoy it as much as you can. But don't give people false hope.
XDefiant Only got less than 4300 signatures
What do we want?
COPIUM
When do we want it?
NOW
PS: This is the same guy that made a video about "why everyone is quitting XDEFIANT?" about a month ago. Surprise, surprise, game dead.
You are cherry picking like crazy to get the information you want to back up your argument and making lots of assumptions. The gaming market and investors and popular genres and lots of other stuff were different in 2017 to 2024. Ubisofts plans for the future and where the company was heading and how successful many of its games were was much different in 2017 then 2024. In 2017 Ubisoft was more successful and had more games helping the company be successful then in 2024. It was much easier for an underperforming game or failing game to be given more time and more if a chance to be successful in 2017 then in 2024 since Ubisoft was making lots more money compared to what they were spending and losing in 2017 compared to 2024. Ubisoft has made a lot of bad business decisions from 2017 to 2024 and they are not the same company anymore. You cannot use anything in ubisofts past as an argument for anything at Ubisoft now to make any comparisons to XDefiant and past Ubisoft titles.
Not to mention he has the most beta male, Michael Jackson sounding voice on YT
They fired the whole dev team, it's not coming back.
It’s been dead for 3 months. These losers aren’t going to acknowledge that the game is just boring and unplayable after a week
@brydawg2020 yup, if the game had a healthy player count it wouldnt have been shutdown.
It's not a hard concept, same thing is happening with suicide squad 🤷🏻♂️
Then why isn't For Honor shutting down
@@NyteFalll bc they are willing to lose money to keep it running… Ubisoft is a corporation that can’t afford to fund this project at a loss. Try again
@@NyteFalll you’re dumber than I thought 💀
I won't clutter up the comment section today. This is why I've had XD back, they're getting done dirty.
lol clutter away
No one cares abt your comment bc this channel can’t get more than 2k views on a good day
@brydawg2020 No one ever cares about anyone else's comment, why would they? Leaving a comment is helpful for the creator. You sound very bitter and jealous of something, you should talk to a friend, parents or maybe a guidance counselor. Best of luck to you on what seems like a very terrible road.
@@NyteFalll you have the same baby voice as Michael Jackson btw. May wanna take some testosterone pills beta boy
@@brydawg2020no one cares bout the haters. He's a good RUclipsr
Eight Thoughts was right about this kid. Definitely putting this channel on my "Don't recommend channel" list.
Thanks
Nah sub everyone should enjoy a good dumpster fire from time to time.
@BigHeelJohnson very true. Puts things in perspective
@@Xsavagementailtyyeah… but you don’t need to sub. Just look him up every once in a while for a good laugh.
PEOPLE NEED TO SIGN THIS PETITION! WE NEED THIS GAME TO SURVIVE
100%
I've been spreading the word in the comments of every single video talking about Xdefiant I come across
It’s just makes no sense to hype people up with delays and 2 betas to shut the game down so early….i was having fun and I was actually upset about missing stuff on season 1 battlepass I was grinding harder this season, and now it’s for nothing…such a waste…
@@KingSizeReese Its not a waste yet. Donate to petition, sign it, spread the word.
They removed the store & gave everyone everything. It’s over guys.
I left the game a couple of weeks ago because of low player count. I was waiting from 20 to 35 minutes to fill a lobby and the sad thing is that it was't completely full. Don't get me wrong in here, I played since the game came out until I couldn't anymore, I had like an hour to play and waiting that much was too much for me. I didn't leave cuz of content, but for the waiting times.
That's fair and it sucks you had to wait that long, if I had to guess are you on mouse and keyboard when playing?
@@NyteFalll does it even matter at this point ? The player count is dead for both platforms
Yep but i had crossplay enabled
Why are people acting like if Xdefiant is the best game they have played in a decade 💀. The cult following for this game is truly something I haven't seen for a while
Because for some it is the best game they've played in a decade, and that's all opinion. Why are people acting like this game wasn't good or didn't have potential?
@NyteFalll I mean if all you play are 6v6 shooters then sure, this is probably the best game you've played in years but in a decade? And this COULD have had potential but I knew from the start that it was gonna be rough for them. For one it's a Ubisoft game, Way too many delays, the problems with Hit reg and Net code was gonna drive people away, the only meaningful advertising was "No SBMM", it released with the same content the beta had which was basically nothing. Sure the game had potential but not the way it was going, the game had major issues and some people are calling it a masterpiece and ignoring the issues. They were trying to aim for the classic 6V6 arcade shooter but add Heroes, Sliding, and bunny hopping when their target audience was Cod Haters who wanted an alternative game to play. Sometimes we have be realistic.
@@NyteFalllit had potential but the game was poorly made. You can't lie about that. And if it had "content" why are we so dry rn? And didn't mark and a few publishers say they had a year of content ready? Why are we so dry then? Also if you been looking at the shop ain't nobody gonna buy that shlop
There are approximately 14975000 players that disagree with you according to Mark Rubin, they released a unfinished game, a first person shooter game on a mmo engine, with as good as none content, it was boring, had way to long grind for anything, and they never fixed the net code, oh, they were talking about everything but they didn’t fix anything in my opinion. You liked the game and it sucks that you lose it, but sometimes big corp, just cut their losses and move on to the next big thing.
It's all the cod haters lmao they are in denial
Warface is still up with a working shop etc and it has about 15 players. Different dev and publisher sure but it's like 10+ years old and still getting updates...
Facts lol APB Reloaded as well. Hired Ops is from 2016 and it's still goin too even without a console release. Same with Ironsight from 2019 etc.
Bad comparison. Warface has no North American servers so it's not playable in the US. It's also been a gotcha game since launch so pay 2 win whales are what's keeping it alive. If that's what you want Xdefiant to become, be my guest lol.
Warfare would’ve been cool if it wasn’t so pay to win like it’s EXTREMELY pay to win
@@amgvlogs5087 NA servers are still up but for console only. I have had pretty good luck with free guns but I'd be lying if I said the SA Hellion wasn't annoying af lol
Warface have an average daily peak of 40k in Russia and those mfers spend money in this game like crazy, so don't get fooled by steam numbers, Warface is doing very well for almost 10 years old game.
I’d love to see them revive XDefiant with added assets from Delta Force if Tencent does acquire Ubi.
The diff with for honor is it has a pricetag, even siege also had a pricetag
Also for honor is probably way less expensive from an infrastructure aspect, the amount of instances per server can be much more compared to 12 ppl per match
I think the biggest factor with xd though was def the state of Ubisoft
For honor was also released during a time when Ubisoft was in a better place financially
For Honor would have been shut down like Concord if it came out this year most likely
Absolutely a price tag helps with longevity. But 8 years in and it's not doing any better in terms of player count than it started with.
I like your content but this is just getting sad at this point. It’s ok to move on to newer and better things. At some point youve got to realize it’s over and that the guy failed both financially and critically no mater how much the small communtiy of fans like it.
Fun fact kiddos: (age demographic 30 to 40s) if you're signing a petition for a company to bring a certain ip back maybe not the smartest thing to do is shit on said company in the petition your just making it worse for yourselves..
Who ever is giving you the info that over thanksgiving xdefiant beat out R6 is lying, on steam alone R6 is beating those concurrent playercount numbers never mind console or uplay
Well yeah but steam doesn't count silly because XD couldn't get the pass to get on so we just forget about those numbers c'mon fight fair! #Justice4XD
@@Xsavagementailtysad
@@Buglife.352 whoosh
I'm sorry but the Tencent saving the game comments are pure cope, I *LOVED* XDefiant but less than 20k players is NOT sustainable and with the team disbanded you'd have to retrain a whole dev team to pick up where the previous one left. The cost to even BEGIN THINKING OF, not even actually doing so, restarting development would be more than the money season 2 brought in. I do believe if given enough time the game could've succeeded to carve out a niche but now at this point it's too late. The best we could hope for is years later a squeal that's compete at launch.
Let's just hope Ubisoft come to their senses. Or whoever buys them out does. And realizes, Xdefiant has something Cod never will. The sense of community with the devs. And a dedicated community behind it
@@bobmowat7190thats facts, Tencebt will be either as bad if not worse than ubisoft, i wouldnt be surprised if they put Xdefiant behind a paywall
@aaronjamesjackson5042 @bobmowat7190 . Sorry for being optimistic about something I like. You guys are completely right. Xdefiant was such a bad idea. I should have never played that game. It's not like I (As in Me, not you) had more fun with Xdefiant than with any other FPS game.
First of all, why would it go mobile? They already have CoD mobile? They could easily sustain it as a platform game and I highly doubt they'd make it pay to win. And even if they did in some way people would still play it
@NyteFalll I'm telling you. People will say whatever comes first to their mind. And make stuff up to "prove their point". What point did these 2 "Twonks" , that xdefiant was dying. If they watched the video they commented on for 3 minutes. They would realize their entire argument is as stable as a pencil balancing on the eraser.
@@NyteFalll the point is that xd wont go mobile it will be forgotten, they will just can it, also all tencent is known for is mobile games so why would they care about xd for?
If tencent took control of the game sbmm and eomm would be implemented instantly. you do realize that right? They openly admit to doing it in League of Legends as bad as cod if not even worse then cod.
Comparing it to for honor is ridiculous as well. For honor is a fully fleshed out game with way more to offer all around. Plenty to unlock as well as single player and mp.
I wanted xdefiant to succeed but they dropped the ball fast. Ran like shit 95% of the time. Had little to nothing to work towards at all to unlock in the game. A battle pass that moves slower then snails humping uphill as well as not much to offer throughout it.unbalanced weapons, you had to use meta builds to stand a chance, couldn’t just work on random guns, let’s not forget they constantly nerfed damn near anything people cry about. God forbid they try to balance it more with some buffs nope just super nerf everything. As others said the development team is no more. Xdefiant served its purpose but was so poorly handled. Nothing is going to save this game. Enjoy what’s left of it and keep in mind it is not the only competition out there for cod.
Plenty of free shooters coming delta force being one of them. That one will be free and include a single player as well as mp. That game may even suck as well point being xdefiant is not the only good shooter out there that is competition to cod and it’s manipulative ass ways.
Not going to bother with the petition as this game cannot be saved nor is worth it.
Let it go dude. Most of us have already uninstalled it and cant re-install it anymore so they cant get their players back if they tried. Its over. Move on with your life. Plenty of better games to play and stream/make content on. Delta Force and Marvel Rivals are both free.
If you uninstalled you can reinstall it. Just no new downloads
Ubisoft done XDEFIANT dirty
The information you are giving out isn’t accurate lol these are a lot of emotions it seems like
I've provided screenshots to show For Honor having the same player count, what info is inaccurate?
@@NyteFalllWhere are them XD player numbers? 😂
@@NyteFalll you’re comparing For Honor’s player count 7 years after launch with XDefiant’s player count 6 months after launch. What were For Honor’s numbers like during that period?
You’re cherry picking incompatible data and pretending it means something.
@nogi2167 are you not watching the whole video i compared For Honors first 6 months the Xdefiants first 6 months
@@NyteFalll Yet I'm pretty sure For Honor was around after 6 months 🤷 why are you comparing two entirely different games bro the cope is insane let it go 🤦
Let it go brah...
The game was DOA. It didn’t come out on steam, Xbox one or PS4. That’s like 60% of all gamers. So now you have 40% of gamers left. You might get 1-2% to play the game. Then you remove SBMM. Now you have 0.3%-1%. Now how many of those players will buy bundles and battle passes. The game cost over $1 million a month just paying the devs. It wasn’t making 3/4ths of that. The devs lied. They talked about non disbanding lobbies on release. Never happened. Mark Rubin kept comparing it to “old school cod”. Is BO4 old school? What old school cod had abilities like invisibility? They marketed this game as something it wasn’t. Then had the worst netcode for an fps game on release. Ubisoft didn’t help but the Devs are to blame here for marketing it to get expectations it shouldn’t have
Fair to say that they marketed it incorrectly, but to say it failed because it wasn't on old gen consoles is insane. Steam sure, but not older consoles. Those consoles you're talking about are like 12 years old at this point and the news ones have been out for 4 we can't just keep making games for old gen consoles.
@ that would make sense if PlayStation hadn’t recently said that HALF of their playerbase is still on ps4. This looked like a flash game. The graphics weren’t good. It wasn’t detailed. Why couldn’t it be on PS4? BO6 is on there. Removing the option for half of console gamers to play your games CERTAINLY contributed to it
i hate to say it but even 13000 peak players is nothing to tencent
And yet here they are about to buy a company with less peak players on their 2 biggest franchises
Tencent is a mobile gaming company. They're not going to make a mobile version of a game that is dead.
Tencent will still buy Ubisoft,they have Siege and Motorfest,not to mention the cash cow ops they'll now own
During daily rewards they gifted for free the coins to buy the battlepass to 300k people(source of these numbers? ) so you can't say, they had a profit of 3milions... Coins was FREE.
It's not the parent Company tho.
It's a really complicated system. Basically imagine it's a company that controls a fund.
That fund Company is completely different from Ubisoft but gets controlled by the Guillemot Family.
The Guillemot Family control that fund company and it controls it's shares.
In 2022, Tencent bought a 49.9 percent stake in Guillemot Brothers Ltd for $297 million. That means Tencent overall owns around 9%. Even Yves Guillemot iirc owns around 20%.
But like mentioned it's not a parent company but rather a Fund controlling investment company.
You should look at For Honors steam charts between 2020-2022
There was a 2 year time period where For Honor was averaging over 100,000 players each month just on steam (Xdifiant maybe did this for 4 months)
The reality is For Horner made the money back it cost to make the game something that XDefiant didn't do
For Honor sold 35 million copies and XDefiant did 15 mill downloads. For Honor cost money 30$ so everyone reading this can do a rough estimate how much it made just from copies sold
For Honor is also heavily monetize 1 character depending how old said character is can be up to 5$ just for one character
This is 100% a money problem if XDefiant made back what it cost to make you would not see them closing
lets do a quick estimate. Most prolly bought For Honor on sale so lets say 15 out 35 million got it full price and if you do the math there its 450,000,000$ lol and thats just counting 15 mill copies, and from everything i seen For Honor had a budget of 75$ mill
This is why For Honor is staying up and not XDefiant. They have enough money to run this game for the next 10+ years
Im really surprise you didn't see this insight before talking, but i kinda understand your trying to make videos on this before it gets shut down
Facts, the skins in Xdefiant are ass too, so there's really no reason to spend money.
$30*, not factoring in sales or people who got it for free. I got FH for free in like 2017 or 2018, ages ago.
@@imaginarymenageriemanager6303 We can assume. and even if you take a low number like 5 milli
5,000,000 x 30 = 150,000,000
This is still 4x what XDefiant made lol
This is 100% a money problem. If XDefiant made back what it cost to make the game it would still be up
and the owner of this video knows this and that's why he hasn't commented on my stuff cause he knows he would lose in a argument
Probably the biggest clown on youtube side blame truth
B/T for the win
EASILY🤣🤣🤣
Add JbowenDaMan as well. And neroscinem. All absolute clowns.
I switched over to The Finals bro, worth it to me, not everyone’s cup of tea but it’s doing the job for me
Just signed the petition. THIS GAME CAN NOT GET SHUTDOWN!!
At this point, just stop talking about the game. it's dead. Yes, it was a fun game. But the petition will never work they dont care. And also 300k claiming daily rewards can you link us a source to where you got them numbers from because it seems like your just throwing bs numbers around
Source: my internal coping mechanism.
Thank you for the detailed analyses. So many people share only what's on the surface level when there's so much more to it.
Comparing your 6 month IP to one that is 8 years old and not free to play isnt a flex it's one more nail in the coffin.
@BigHeelJohnson that was not a even the biggest factor
This cant be the end of XDefiant man, it’s so clear Ubi is the main reason this game “failed”
Ubifail
They failed ark aswell man I hate Ubisoft
Buddy it’s def the end. There is like 200 people playing this game. It’s boring as a mf
Love all that copium
I don’t get why they can’t come to terms with reality. The lead made a statement the games shutting down. They gave everyone everything. The store is gone. It’s over. Grow up and move on.
I got pissed and deleted it, now I can't even find it in the Xbox store. Its gone and ain't coming back...I'm gonna miss it! I truly loved that game.
If you previously downloaded it, it will be in your library
@NyteFalll yeah, probably. But I've given up on Ubisoft now. I'll never give then my money again. Unless they finally release Beyond Good and Evil 2
There is always Luna to stream it on saves your the storage space.
There are not enough fans for the game to be saved that’s why.
In about 10yrs, the data preservation from so many tech guys of these games and the hack/mod communities creating fake server proxies to make the game data believe it’s still online, is gonna be a very big thing.
Not just because this is a game in the era of “history erasure”, where no physical mediums hold the data needed to play these live games… but because this game DID make a dent in the CoD sector. And that xdefiant themesong tune alone is enough to get anyone that played this game comatose in nostalgia overload years from now.
This game’s gonna survive in the longterm.
Xdefient was free, for honor wasn't. Xdefient is mid
And For Honor has had 8 years and still no more players than when it started
@@NyteFalll yeah and siege is 9 years old and has its lowest player count in 3 years. yet it still makes far more money than every other game ubi has
@@NyteFalll And x defiant died in 6 months so what’s your point you’re too much of a small RUclipsr to matter in the grand scheme of things so you’re just flogging a dead horse.The Game will be shutdown free to play players continue to cry💀 twitch number don’t equal player count you beta male
@NyteFalll for honor is a better game that keeps people old and new interested while xdefient was a fad
@Nytefallll as I expected your a grifter at heart you want to say you helped x defiant to build an audience deleting comments is soooooo beta
Xdefiant was literally dead no one was playing it anymore man it had a 80 million dollar budget for honors was a paid game so they got some money back whereas Xdefiant was free too play it was too much money to keep the dead game going
Now who's coping lol. I just showed you people were playing it, had more concurrent players that Siege during the week of thanksgiving. Even when presented with numbers people like you still try to find ways to lie about why this game got shut down, it's insane
@@NyteFalll my guy I think you're in the denial phase. I'm just gonna let you grief.
I think the main reason for shutting down is Finances. I've calculated around $2m to keep it running on a monthly basis (this includes wages, rent, bills, etc), this plus with share holder dividends xdefiant probably needs to be generating like $4m monthly for Ubisoft to see this as a feasible investment. Im not even accounting for the sunk cost recovery of this games 6 year development. But sadly the game was only probably generating around $10k-$20k monthly.
Ubisoft probably accounted for a drop in player base from the initial peak of 15m by 60%, this still left them with enough players to at least cover its cost till the game was ironed out and marketing efforts were made. But unfortunately there was a drop by like 99%, which only left a few thousand players playing. So even if Season 3 went right and player population was boosted by 200% it meant that they would still only be making around like $50k per month, which is not even close to covering their expenses. Not to mention that most of the remaining players on this game were broke and didnt invest in the game (this is typical of a free game, but unfortunately the population was so the low cash cows moved back to cod and only people with no spending power were left). This coupled with the companies current situation made it impossible to keep the game going.
Just let it go already. Nobody was playing the game.
Don't say that the xdelisted fans don't want to believe their precious game was dead
Lmaoooo @@Umbralogy
You said it best.
Xdefiants failure is collateral damage in the failure of ubisoft...
The game was doing fine... maybe it didnt meet expectations set by the release but it was plenty healthy/:
Weve been screwed..
Imagine that this movement has been just a media strategy to make a bomb relaunch with the game in perfect conditions, a higher content cadence, a world XD tournament, etc...
one can dream lol
i had a theory about that, more feasible: announce the shut down
up the player count
launch s3
up even more the player count
if it stays at a constant number keep the game alive.
the only flaw is the removal of the downloads
A game with so much potential. On the wrong publishers hands
Then you wouldnt be playing XD...I love these non sensical hissy fits with no thought put into it without the publisher the gameplay you enjoy wouldn't exist everything is built on snowdrop a game engine specifically built for Ubisoft.
It just breaks my heart seeing XDefiant dead even tho it wasn't in a bad spot at all... I truly hope we can change something about the shutdown and kick Ubisoft in the ass
Yes that will show Ubisoft fuck you take my money!!
NGL I only downloaded the game to get the free daily log in reward, but never played a single game. Just wanted to get free coins for a future faction I might want to play.
Well that's just weird lol
@NyteFalll was waiting on a Assassins Creed Faction that may never come now.
DORK L0L - 8 thoughts
love the coverage, man!
Stunning and brave! 🌈
You can’t talk Eight thoughts destroyed you in a video
Which video? Don't see anything about this on his chammel
@ it was in a live stream
This clown nytefalll, being 100% serious, called Eight Thought a “twat waffle” 💀 like bro wtf is that
Nytefall's views on XDefiant and its future seem to be highly delusional and disconnected from the reality of the gaming industry. His belief that the game will not shut down is unrealistic, especially given the challenges the game has faced in terms of player retention, competition, and the lack of substantial updates. XDefiant has struggled to maintain a strong player base, and with Ubisoft’s recent history of canceling or shutting down underperforming games, it's hard to see how Nytefall’s optimism holds up. His takes seem to ignore the broader context of game development cycles, market trends, and the financial pressures on companies to sustain a game. This leads to a skewed perspective that does not align with the general consensus or the game's trajectory.😂😂😂😂 your content is terrible
I would say it's because he's is a XD channel but his views only went up after it died.
This game would’ve survived on mobile
Tencent are really good at cosmetics and upholding free games that people actually enjoy like cod mobile. Has similar movement to xd as well. Also yearly championship tournaments. Don’t underestimate them cause they do mobile game
Im sorry but no one can tell me people actually spent money on this game that much i rarly saw anyskins
I mean I saw them everyday, in fact I saw so many people with founders pack stuff it's crazy
The coping is absolutely insane🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nyte... you are merely playing with numbers here, if Tencent would to buy out Ubisoft, xdefiant will immediately be cutted because it is underperforming by comparison to Call of Duty mobile and believe it or not Tencent is currently working on full fletched PC port to COD mobile, they simply do not need another game that is in the same genre especially the one that is far behind what they already have.
Your comparison to For Honor is not exactly fair either, For Honor is a fighting game, these were always more of a niche games and while, yes in raw numbers For Honor is behind xdefiant however, in its respective genre For Honor is one of the most popular game, ahead of games like Tekken 8, Mortal Kombat 11, Mortal Kombat 1 and Injustice 2 and its all time peak is Higher than even Street Fighter 6, so by no means For Honor is an outsider, meanwhile let's look at xdefiant, let's say that it had an online of around 40k players during thanksgiving, well I am sorry but it is really, really bad, for example for Warface Russian made pay2win trash 40k is an average daily peak, while needless to say that average player of Warface spends waaaay more money in the game, yes while on paper, in raw numbers things are good, but perspective matter and in perspective xdefiant hasn't been doing very well, Ubisoft has had big expectations for xdefiant and xdefiant did not lived up to them, even CEO of Ubisoft himself acknowledged that.
Great video man! So glad you are putting this type of content out. See you in game!
the cope from Xdefiant people is fucking glorious.
They are wasting their time mourning xdelisted instead of doing something productive lmao
Dude it’s drop dead hilarious watching these idiots try and defend this game. They talking abt singing a petition to keep the game alive 💀
HILARIOUS 😂😂😂
I was personally waiting for prestige to come out so I can grind I'm over level 200 with 400 hrs put in
I'm enjoying this game if it shuts down it be a shame
Never seen such cope from grown men before
Ain't that what you're here for?
@ nope im here to make fun of you betas
@@rezcellent rent free
@@colby3333you on Ubisoft payroll to defend this garbo game?
@@Umbralogy I'm not defending this game, I actually enjoy playing all kinds of games! I didn't mean to come off as offending anyone or to spark comments, just sharing my thoughts!
What is the incentive to liquidate assets like XDefiant before a buyout (assuming it's making them money like you claim)? Doesn't that just lower the valuation of the company?
Idk I'm out if Tencent buys Ubi. No Chinese studios.
Dude this guy is milking it
X defiance Only got less than 4300 signatures
The game is gone. Stop it 😅
you wanna kill me with that tittle
I highly doubt that, for a whole month, i couldn't even get into a match. it's not even an internet issue, i keep seeing people joining in and leaving, and its the same 3 people too.
I’ve never seen what you are talking about, the lobbies are always full. Now ranked play is dead on xdefiant for sure. But casual play is alive and well. I think it’s the marketing more than anything else. That’s what took part in it shutting down June of next year.
@@steviej5744For me, finding a lobby takes at minimum 3 minutes for it to fill the lobby with players, then do that stupid “creating match” loading screen, then we can vote on the map, then we wait for the timer, then we wait for it to load to finally get into the game, this has been my experience ever since launch, and it wasn’t a network issue, bc my ping is always in the 20-30 range, then when people left the lobby mid game, nobody ever replaced them
@steviej5744 till now? Nothing, and maybe it's because I'm In Asia.
@@edwardkenway496 try quick play. My games always start instant
@@edwardkenway496 it may be, I’m in the states, east coast so I find lobbies pretty regular. It depends on region
they shut down xdefiant but a game like roller champions is still running
insanity
lol still coping uh? Let’s talk about some things you left out…
Forhonor released in 2017
XDefiant released in 2024
Imagine having less viewership than a game that came out almost a decade ago.
XDefiant is dead will always be dead and the result of that is because it’s a bad game. Nobody is bringing this game back lol. You keep talking about 10 mil 15 mil players… bruh that tells you how bad the game was EVERYONE LEFT expect weirdos like you 😂
No one's coping, you clearly didn't watch the video til the end or you just didn't understand the numbers. The year they released doesn't matter. XDefiant has more players left just prior to the shutdown than For Honor had in it's first 6 months. So then why wasn't For Honor shut down? A lot of people left sure, but 300,000 claiming daily login rewards shows it was just a lack of content and they could easily come back
No shot you deleted my reply 😂🤡
@@mrab9304 i delete nothing
My reply before it was deleted:
Nothing you say matters when all I have to reply with is the game struggles to gain 100 unique viewers on a streaming platform. It’s like that for a reason. Because the vast majority agree the game isn’t good.
The most accurate and unpopular reason this game died is because washed up people like you, blame truth and JB can’t keep your mouth shut about call of duty. Every time any of you have something to say about XDefiant you have to say something about call of duty in the same sentence 😂. You sir are the reason this game died is dead and will not be coming back.
So please shut up with the complaining and the reaching for why this game got shutdown for any reason other then 90% of players didn’t like it.
Prolly gonna delete again but I’ll copy and paste it back.
@mrab9304 I'm not deleting anything bro relax lol. But you can copy and paste all you want it doesn't change the fact that XDefiant had more viewers on Twitch post shutdown notice than For Honor does. So your still not telling me why For Honor doesn't shut down because it's having the same issues
Yet again the French surrendered like always. Tencent gona revive Xdefient when they buy Ubi
They may launch a mobile version, but they'll keep the original version too. We also may see Siege mobile finally get a full release
Maybe adding a mobile version to the mix wouldn't be so bad more players
Is this a grown man? Sad.
I hope not.
No one is signing a petition to save this boring pos game guys get real
So almost 4000 people must be no one then huh
@@NyteFalll 😂😂😂😂😂😂 yeah those are terrible numbers in case you didn’t know. You don’t even make money on that… The guy you tried to call out for being a “grifter” (Eight Thoughts) pulls abt 50k a video on an average day and up to 2 million on a good day and has been making videos since 2009. You’re not that guy pal, sit tf down with your little baby voice
😂😂😂
@@NyteFalllthat's the ENTIRE player base😂🤣
Or maybe don't block countries IPs
Out of all the gr8 games recently released and your worried about xdefiant?😂😂 Pathetic
I so tired of hearing anonymous person I have an anonymous source its because nobody was spending money
I don't know how it is with other people, but coming from CoD It was way more likely for me to buy a cosmetic in XDefiant then CoD.
I see it this way; why give them another 28 Euros for a boring skin on wich they just put a rat head with googly eyes, when I already paid 70-80 € for the game.
On the other hand, there is XDefiant wich is free and has at least the same or even better quality then every CoD game of the recent years.
I don't even thougt about regretting buying any cosmetic or battle pass, till I reached like 60 €, because it is the amount we normaly would have to pay for a game like this.
Well I mean there is a significant difference at this point one game is over priced flashy garbage but on the other hand XD has you tracking down your distributer that you bought said BP/skins from in order to get a refund. Unfortunately I think BO6 won this battle this time around.
i signed but i need do do 1 more step and thats to fund or to share i can not fund just because i cant pay woth paypal or credit card so i chose for distributing it around te net but when i did i still needed to do the last step.
is that a bug or ????
becaise i think u mis out a lot of people who can complete the last step
Do you smell that Baswza smells like a con to me.
Love XD I already signed the petition
We need more unhinged NyteFalll 😃
I agree. Yesterday's and today's vids have been very spicy
This one wasn't even that unhinged though lol
@@NyteFalll It's not about that. You're becoming a voice who isn't gonna take shit and stamding up for things.
Now I just feel bad for Nyte... super sad man. Sorry for being an ahole about XDefiant and mocking your cope 4 real.
It was never cope, it was always hope
its too late , even more FPS that are decent hit the market . i dumped this for Delta force
Delta force is entirely different. It's more battlefield than anything.
i liked the game till the sweats showed up.
I know how you feel rn, I'm one of the last players in lawbreakers server.
Didn't Tencent make Delta Force
Oh boy another Xdefiant cope session
Your confusing cope with hope. Can't wait to see the looks on faces of the people like you when it comes back
@@NyteFalll as someone who fully supported the game and is lvl 200. the game has like a 5% chance of ever returning man, they didn't shut it down bc they just felt like doing it. and we all know this game has had a lackluster community and was always dragging by with the limited amount of players we've seen personally. there was potential but that's entirely gone
@@niicholasytits almost like you didnt even watch the video.
@@mellowistaken i watched it and there's generally a lot of misleading information, he also makes a comparison between a high maintenance FPS game vs For Honor. these games are entirely different and came out at entirely different times, and as others have pointed out, for honor likely would've been shut down as well if it were released with Ubisoft's current financial situation. if there's anything else i'm missing let me in on it
Ain't that what you are here for?
I love Xdefiant so for those bad comments he is not talking to you. It's for those like me who love this game and what it stands on. Why would you guys hate one that. If it's not your game, keep it pushing and leave the community who wants this game to continue.
😢
🧻 for you little buddy "joined 14 years ago" yikes...
i play xd and i think im about lvl 278 and its fun to play as i get kills or deaths due to my good or more often than not bad choices of weapons and routes to take etc , rather than some programme running in the back ground thats going to give you a kill and boost your aim assist as you are dropping below a 1kd level.
but.
i said to my mates on launch that the game was rushed out (despite rubin saying it wasnt and later altering the camo grind and making it harder and saying thats all they had for the game at launch !) and has almost no content and the net code is bad and this will drive players away (and it did) until the game reaches a core number of players and i didnt think this would be enough for the game to survive esp as it counts on bp and store sales for its survival.
this was before all the stuff started coming out about the state of ubi (or rather before i was aware of it) which only made things worse for the game as it made it look like a rush job to try and get some money for ubi who lets face it need it badly and it has become a casualty as ubi go into survival mode as they try to save money and make the company books look a tad better and imho there will be more cuts to come.
ubi have a working partnership with tencent and they are looking at them to save them from other companies that are circling around like sharks knowing theres blood in the water as these will rip into ubi without a second thought , so while tencent may not be the best company to buy ubi they could be the least worst option for ubi as the family may still have some power over the company when the dust settles.
with this in mind was xd good , it wasnt that good yes it was fun but it really really needed more dev time at the very least and if not that then more time to get up and running and this is down to ubi and mismanagement and in part rubin who popped up on twitter and started taking snide shots at cod (there is a map in xd where on the loading screen its says "the past is dead" was this a cryptic msg?) that basically got all the toobers shouting about it and because it had rubins name attached it became "the cod killer", if it had more dev time we may not have seen it at all given the state of ubi ! , and looking at the leak of the ac "skin" then i dont think ac shadows will save them it will be a short term blip that brings some money in but not enough.
will xd come back ? , there is a small chance if tencent force the deal through quickly and by that i mean done and dusted by summer 25 at the latest before the date of the servers going offline (which may happen sooner) and what the devs have been working on hasnt been wiped from ubi's servers , if we get s3 (and i wouldnt be surprised if we dont atm , just because they said we will doesnt mean anything esp as the current dev team has all but gone) and its the improvements they promised and they are nearing a deal to buy ubi tencent may say fire it back up or at the least let ppl dl the game again and then we can see the reaction(s) while we finish the deal and look at what can be salvaged , as for the devs being fired that doesnt really mean anything as there are 1000s of devs out there looking for work and sometimes a new team can work wonders (and yes it can go the other way) and they dont actually need rubin back as all the frame work will have been done for the game , yes its a lot of ifs in there.
sorry for the long post.
What's the tldr I'm not reading this obituary.
@@Xsavagementailty I'm sorry that you are slow at reading but if it would take you more than say 3 minutes to read it then you probably wouldn't understand it.
Listen to that beta voice 😂
The only issue I would have is Tencent making it primarily mobile. I was playing CoD Mobile when it first started, but it was heavy on the battery and control support was horrible, at least on Droid.
I don't see them making it mobile
@NyteFalll hope not, but more so hopeful someone saves this gem of a game.
@@jonathanwilson1539 actually it would be better to do it like Fortnite, and have it as a mobile/console/pc game. Mobile users far surpass the amount of users on Console and PC combined. Could bring the player count up to near 100k at least.
Imma just say it. To all of the people that say "Xdefiant is a cod killer" or "I hope Xdefiant fails bag blah blah." Respectfully shut it. Any game that has "xxx Killer" ruins the game as a whole. Let's get something straight. Xdefiant is not a cod killer. it's a cod competitor. XDefiant and Cod, while similar, are also vastly different. Yes, they are both FPS shooters, and yes, they are team games, but XDefiant is an arcade hero shooter, while cod is more of a tactical shooter game. Not everyone likes the high ability usage that games like Xdefiant has. Like Nytefall has said, some people prefer my gun vs. your gun with minor ability play. And others don't like simply gun v gun. For a game to be considered a "xxx killer," it needs to do something similar but way better it can't stray too far from the game it's tryna kill. Xdefiant strays too far from cod due to the abilities. And let's be real. Nothing can kill cod besides 2 things. The community and Activison are the only things that can really kill cod. And for people who wanted this shutdown as I said earlier Xdefiant is a competitor and as Nytefall and every single person that knows this Competition is needed for a better product.
League of Legends… and Valorant. I think Tencent owns Riot Games
yup they do
Not only the game was stale as fuck but the cheery was since launch you get shot far around the corner fam, what happens when you put a fps game on a MMO platform. All said that's not gonna work. Here we are buy Felicia
Waiting on Splitgate 2
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 corporate takeover😂😂😂😂😂😂 you guys are so weirdo
You give me hope… I really would love to see some kind of comeback
Tencent like free games and make money off them, Ubisoft we be no more when there next game is a flop and as it will be as they have now pissed off a lot of players with XD dearth!
Look at the share price !
The only reason the game (XD)has been kept live is because of a buyout by tencent early next year !
Otherwise why would you even bother with season three and keeping the servers on !!!
Tencent want XD it will make them money !
Hadn't even thought about it from that perspective
Alot can happen until june
What was the size of the studio that the game had did they have 277 employees that cost over 22 million a yea
That might be accurate, but 277 employees is the total number of employees across 2 sites they shut down not all the SF one plus the budget for the game was 80 million which included salaries