I’m dumbfounded by way Ubisoft conducted their business… a game like this shouldn’t be shutting down. I hope someone sees the potential this game has & buys the IP
@Minx717 feels better, but still some issues with my bullets not registering and still dying behind cover. There's something weird about aiming down sites with a burst weapon and then going into hip fire. At least for me, it stops firing for a few seconds.
@@ruumelan enjoy it man! These devs loved this project and it means a lot to them seeing all of their work being able to be pushed into the game, instead of being scrapped and thrown away. Grind it out and have a blast!
@JbowenDaMan I will. Every content Creator should start playing this game now since bo6 is not fun at all to play atm. Only good mode in bo6 is Zombies
This is the most amount of content dropped in a launch season, and it was during the sunsetting phase. That is what makes it more sadder than it already is. Plus, they shipped content for Season 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 which I don't know what happens if they did not get shutdown and the factions, maps and guns were released in their respective seasons. I saw Nerocinema and Merk's videos on the new update and I noticed a few things: 1) On some guns, go to the mastery tab and you see nothing. 2) In Merkmusic's video, the Firing Range just doesn't load, it loads a random sandbox with a single floor. 3) In general, they probably were in the middle of implementing the normal stuff for the guns, factions and gamemodes (given the fact that Omega Force from Blood Dragon only has 1 'operator' in the faction tab, the other 2 were to my knowledge, scrapped entirely when they were told to shutdown.) Mark Rubin, thank you and your team or working hard on the game, despite the obstacles you had to jump through, and I hope greater success from your future projects. Kind regards, Subaraz
@@subaraz here’s to the future brother, let’s hope for the best not only for this team, but for the overall genre as well. We finally got some fun alternatives to COD, and sadly it gets wiped instantly😪
I think that’s what we have to take into consideration. So much content dropped, but this is 5 seasons worth of stuff. If you split it up, I think we would’ve still complained about not enough content. Bittersweet situation with Xdefiant. I wish they didn’t pull from the store because I think many folks would’ve hopped in
They mishandled Every single game they released this year. My guess is they shutdown and moved all budget from Xdefiant to AC shadows. AC shadows is Ubisofts last hope. if that game tanks which it likely will not sell enough to make up for its cost, Ubisoft is pretty much done.
@@Rockstarrclarke quiet boy or we will make a trans racial op that's missing a leg and is cross eyed with a stupidly unfair gadget.... 👀 We're watching you...
I love how everyone is making videos about how good the update is. But in reality thats becuz they gave you multiple seasons worth of stuff in one shot. If they drip feed this content over time like they were doing people would not be as excited. Not to mention they prevented new downloads so it cant even lead to a resurgence other than making people return. Their business model was flawed. People calling the update so great ... well most updates would be labeled as such as if they dropped a year worth of content in a week
Lmfao. Bro ur spitting too many facts. And not to mention… literally half of this update should have been in this game before its release. I’m sorry, but people who are still coping about this game are just weird.
@@TobiramaSenju212 and you are "weird" to still hating on the game. seems like you are pretty obsessed with it and you have basicly nothing to do in your freetime.
@@Feuersternful Bruh its a game, dont have to defend it like its a new born baby. These guys are all in it for the money. Tried to tell y'all early on but nope, if it wasn't praise we got called haters.
A fine example of how drip feeding content can actually go too far. A more generous release schedule could well have turned the game around and they clearly had so much material banked and ready to go.
I genuinely teared up when I played yesterday. I was so happy to see all this amazing content and to try it out. But then only to remember it's all going away.. Thank you Mark & the XDefiant team.
@@LucifeRxGoSu indeed it is sad, but they had to follow the plan and I’m assuming where prepping up everything to make their lives easier down the road. Sadly Ubisoft is getting clapped right now though 😪
They were ramping it up to 3 maps per season. And they didn’t drop all the maps and factions and etc. they held back. They didn’t drop the entire 8 seasons, bits and pieces. Which leads me to believe xdefiant will be back at a later date.
The team was small to begin with. A majority of the content they dropped is shit that was leaked when the game launched so most of this content was being worked on before the game even launched. If they dropped this as an official release theres a good chance we would not have any content at all for at least 2-3 seasons while they come up with and create new content. They had it set up so that the team would likely not be overworked and pressured to push content out half assed because they dont have the time to polish the content. They would have dropped a ton of stuff, everyone would have been stoked but the next season when they come up and go “sorry guys we gave you everything we had in the pipeline and now we have nothing to drop this season but heres a battlepass” people would have gotten mad and rage quit claiming the game is dead because they cant do seasonal content.
@ that’s not all the content, they held back.. I have a feeling they will drop one more update, the rest of the 4,5,6,7,8. It’s believable especially when they dropped this on us. What about the factions from 6,7,8 they have the entire 8 seasons this much is true. Either that or some other company will buy it out and then it will continue from there.
@ they would have to buy out all the IPs to be allowed to even have this game be public.. unless they buy the game with the condition that any and all references to Ubisoft IPs are removed which would cost a ton of money to make happen and i doubt any company is willing to take the financial risk of doing that to a game that financially has not proven to be profitable. If it is profitable its far from what any big company would be willing to bother with.
i loaded into the game last night, looked at the new weapons and new factions it took every thing in me to hold back tears this game while it had its issues was most importantly FUN, and the saddest part was that not only were the devs working they tried to get US the fans What we were wanting and by June it will be gone forever
Since the news of the shutdown i can't get into a lobby, I have tried searching for as much as 30 minutes and I have tried on several different occasions in several different game modes.
I quit playing for a week but just a couple nights ago (midnight west coast US time) I waited 5-8 mins and only had 4 other players waiting with me so I gave up. Last night same time I was literally in lobbies within 1 min flat lol I am KNM player but no IBMM every other player was controller. Try again
This video made my day, I was the Art Lead for the map you captured here (westend from division 2) and the Assassins creed Odyssey map Mykonos for Ubisoft Osaka. I left a while back so wasn’t even sure these maps would ship (despite being done forever) until another team member sent me this video. Happy to hear someone enjoyed all the work we did on these. You are right though that the whole situation is depressing 😢 The game industry needs to change and become a safe place to make a career.
@@Faygodreams. yeah, Ubisoft definitely did not manage this game correctly. Seemed like the devs were absolutely cooking behind the scenes, but had to follow a specific agenda.
Are people still "Crying" over this games downfall? It's not like it was anything groundbreaking or out of the box. a simple 6v6 hero shooter (yes that's what it is)
@vanquish421 is that all what you guys need for this to be a GROUNDBREAKING experience? Sheesh your standards have lowered drastically, what you said is the bear minimum of what a shooter should have. You said nothing speciaal
@ezequielsarcos207 1) I never said it was groundbreaking. 2) How sad is your life that you're this upset that people enjoy something? Take a good hard look in the mirror and fix whatever is going on with you.
Its so good. Its so sad. If thus released while downloads were opened, the game would have made an INSAnE amount if money for ubisoft. Its just sad that the only good arcade/arena fps game in the past years is getting shut down. I hope the very talented devs find a new job and can supply themselves and their families.
@@UrBoyRicky123 I hope these devs can land on their feet as well, they are amazing people and are very passionate about this project. They deserve the best 💯
Unfortunately there’s rumors that Ubisoft is going to shut down their other games too one by one. Xdefiant is just the start. Idk how much of this is true. Their reason is so they can sell it like brand new company to someone else. Again it’s all rumors, take this with a pinch of salt
What were Ubisoft thinking.... Surely this was presented to the higher ups and they still chopped it. I'm hoping given the millions of players who tried it before, those who want to retry it can find it again to try it. Imagine if the numbers went crazy again.... It won't, but will be interesting to see how feedback, player numbers and the situation develops in the next 6 months......
@@theduftmeister it would be very interesting to see. Especially since the initial 15 million people who already installed the game can still give it another go if they wanted too!
@@JbowenDaMan it would kind of be funny if there was an absolute massive surge of numbers back into the game that end up sticking around. It's a very weird and surreal feeling getting all this content after sunset announcement. I'll enjoy it whilst it's there. Thanks for your XD commentaries.
@@theduftmeister still need to spend money. Just playing wont help. They released everything in the shop for everyone to use so cant even make money even if those million ppl played.
Record the audio aswell we are making a collage of adults crying over our IP as a going away present for the development team. Thanks for being an ally and supporting Ubisoft! ❤️ 🌈
@@MangledRemainz indeed our motto at the office is quite cute "our success will never miss as long as we don't hire a Cis" Becky our trans racial non binary team mate came up with it.
Some unfortunate news: some players, myself included, are having issues with xdefiant after the season 3 update. Basically, the game is crashing for me, sending me back to dashboard (I play on xbox), so the game is pretty much unplayable. Tragic, cause this update does look great, but some people aren't gonna be able to enjoy it. BTW, if anyone has some feedback/recommendations on how to fix this issue, it would be greatly appreciated 🙂
After spending a while on the new maps and game modes with the new factions this is so upsetting. The developers knocked it out of the park! So we'll thought out. Such an amazing game!
Honestly, if the game launched with even halve of this content and the prestige system whilst also releasing on steam it'd have stood a better chance. Then they could have moved into the seasonal content. It's such a damn shame. Played for a bit last night and I LOVED it. I wish they'd change their minds and I'd gladly pay whatever I could to keep it going. They should use this as a foundation and start a revival.
The community killed this game more than anything. Too many complaining on Discord and everywhere. Why is this not fixed? Why is this not dropped? Blah, blah, blah.
I haven't been able to get online on Xdefiant yet, life is busy right now,but hopefully later today I will be able to get into the game and check out season 3 stuff
Honestly i can care less about this update i stopped playing this boring game after pre season cause of the problems the game had on release and the fact people are ok with mark lying in your face and saying the game isnt dying and then later on looking stupid and announcing the shutdown of this game was absolute comedy,and good content creators like Nerdslayer Studios for his Death of a game video on this shit game covered VALID points on why this shit died and why it was gonna die to begin with
Exactly. They hate COD so much they let a company like UBISOFT out of all companies trick them into thinking this was a good game. It’s pretty unreal lmfao
Whether someone likes the game or not, they shouldn't have faith in the top management at Ubisoft such as their CEO. It's insane how much he has destroyed.
What completley baffles me the most in the gaming world now, how a game like call of duty is still alive when its just basically the same game every year and people will still go out and buy it. Whats even worse is how a game like fortnite is still alive after 7 years, yet we get a refreshing fps arcade shooter which i cant deny is the most fun ive had on a fps game in years, no cheaters no sbmm bullshit and the game dies under a year timespan. This is how you know the gaming world is now at rockbottom, xdefiant did have its issues im not saying the game was perfect but it was still new, the game had potential to thrive what a waste to see it go just like that almost like it never existed. Shoutout to all xdefiant players and supporters, lets hope somehow someway this game can be kept alive!
Thats because it's wasn't innovative a generic arcade shooter with poorly implemented hero shooter mechanics. Like what you like friend but the community is pretentious as shit and focused more on hating every other game rather than actually enjoying XD. Weather or not people like to hear it but the community had just as much involvement in killing this IP as much as ubi did.
Ubisoft should have waited until NOW to actually of made this the full release with how cod is deader than dead, this would have been the perfect time to launch!
Honestly, breaks my heart a bit that a game like this is shuttung down. I just finished playing a trial of the new COD , and this beats it hand down for sheer fun and laughs. Itll be a sad day when Xdefiant shuts down, if this was released in its now state, with a £30 price tag, it wouldve been worth it. Ubisoft have really disappointed me tbh, they had a good, solid game that could've and would've been exellent.
There is no point in paying money on the battlepass when this game is shutting. You won't be able to play it anymore. It's pretty pointless tbh, this game is great, but it's almost a waste to pay money on this game when it's leaving
So passionate developers had a lot to show off, but Ubisoft only thought of money. Typical story, but I feel sad for Mark Rubin and team. I mean Xdefiant as a whole isn't 100% great and has tons of issues like the inflated progression system that makes it unnecessarily boring and unproductive to play (which is why I left Xdefiant) alongside poor timing on content drops and quantity, but every content they dropped for S4 onward shows how much they really want to show. Shame on you Ubisoft. This game shouldn't die, Ubisoft failed to capitalize on the BO6 debacle recently.
so there is no chance if XDefiant do better numbers Ubisoft can lift up the game again? like I know there is no hope but I keep saying maybe there is a small chance, like the team created content to S8, 2 years worth of content like if the content is ready the rest of time will be polishing and optimization,. this is so depressing since the game worth playing and worth the pain like ubisoft didn't included the game in the marketing strategy and they didn't migrate to steam or epic, all of this could help the game... just depressing shit
@@GhostFrost524 I’m obsessed as well bro😩 but lowkey all the new factions are insane. Shocked how balanced they are as well since they were pretty much rushed into the game with 0 polish 😂
Its just a shame that they didnt use all these maps when the Game needed it, a lot of ppl (including myself were bored of the map by a week or two). they could have released 4 or Even 5 maps per season and maybe (i cant be sure) the game could have last a bit longer
i reinstalled it just to check out everything then uninstalled it again as much as i love the changes and totally called the hidden blade melee for the assassins i know if i enjoy playing it im just gunna miss it more when its finally gone.
@@DEANDRE_DTS as long as they don't IP ban siege accounts they will stay afloat between R6 the crew and a lesser extent for honor it's enough to keep there nose above water.
oh my fucking god, i have been wanting a mode or something like the “fighting against bots while still earning some xp”. the fact this fucking game is being shut down really fucking sucks it was going to happen sadly i just hope someone sees this game and wants to help them out cuz ts is stupid
Ubisoft perdió el rumbo va a la quiebra, ese es el motivo hay juegos con mucha menos jugadores y siguen no se entiende, es que perdieron el rumbo futura quiebra. Ubisoft lost its way, it is going bankrupt, that is the reason there are games with much fewer players and it is still not understood, it is that they lost its way, future bankruptcy.
I remember when Hyperscape died it was a Ubisoft game. I never got the chance to play the game because I never heard of it before but it's supposed to be a FPS Arena shooter TDM and Battle Royale mode it had abilities but it's not a hero shooter the movement was similar to Titanfall 2 the game died and it was shut down because the game had no skill-based matchmaking (for some reason), balancing issues, Battle Royale long queue times, etc
if xdefiant would have released with all of this content on day 1 (release, season 1, season 2 and season 3) then we could have talked about this game lasting for a long period, then the game would have had a chance. Over the course of time I came to conclusiog that it is not networking component that killed this game cos there are plenty broken games in this department that strife nonetheless, it was lack of content, the fact that game looked and felt outdated (it is very important for more people than you think) and specialists, people are tired of those, there is the reason why CoD stepped away from those in favour of field upgrades. Unfortunately xdefiant missed every single release window opportunity and eventually released in the worst time it possibly could, in a sense I am happy that this game failed, because it will now tell publishers that releasing a bad product (in terms of content, looks, feel and technical condition) without SBMM will not save you.
If they brought out season 1-3, then the game would be in such a terrible state that it wouldn’t have survived the first month let alone if 1,000,000 players jump on it at the same time. Not only that, they would have to look into every bit of code to not only fix core parts of the game but also fix other parts such as bugs and glitches and even visual bugs as well. Even if they did brought in the year worth of content, it would be done within a month and then expectations would be way too high that the devs won’t know what to do.I would’ve agreed to bringing out prestige system in the first season would be a good idea. You can even tell that they weren’t even done with a couple of them including the mastery skins as well and didn’t have all of the skins that could’ve been cool for the game as well.
@ you are very wrong on this one, there are plenty of games that are successful while being is horrible technical state Escape from Tarkovsky for example, BO2 is known for its troublesome connection element and many, many more, people often are willing to overlook technical issues if the game is good and as for high expectations that the game would have had… well expectations were high one way or the other, so I don’t think that anything would have been different in that regards.
@@ruslanagadzhanyan2753 not in this day and age, just look what happened when season 1 dropped and a good portion of the player base left due to it having fps issues. Back from 2012-2016, they were much more patient and was willing to wait. This is 2024 and you can see even before the release of the game, they wanted the game to come out despite having between bug issues, to visual problems and even balancing as well. This wouldn’t be a good comparison due to how people’s feelings, experience, and knowledge of both games and coding back then. Keep in mind if the game made a good portion of players leave just because of season 1 imagine what would’ve happened if they released a year worth of content in one season, the game would break down all together. Don’t forget that when BO6 dropped you had players already reaching mastery camos within 1 day of the game dropped.
@@ruslanagadzhanyan2753 so my comment got deleted for some odd reason so ill put it this way, when Xdefiant dropped season 1, the game was extremely laggy and buggy, now imagine bringing out season 1-3 content, it would be a major problem and even if they fix parts of it, it wouldve died much quicker that way. You talking about games from 2012-2019, players were much more patient and it felt slower due to players only playing games for fun and less about grinding and competitive, now it’s nothing but seeing who can get mastery first. BO6 is a perfect example of this, despite them having loads of content, people were already not only close to master prestige but also got mastery camos on day one of the game dropped.
@ every game nowadays is laggy and buggy on the start, so I still don’t think that anything would have changed, buggy and messy releases has become a new norm love it or hate it, a lot of people left xdefiant because there was nothing to do in the game really.
I find it kinda sad and ironic that if you think about it. Mark killed this game over a decade ago when him and the team at infinity ward created cod4. Mark and his team there brought up the standard of what an online fps should be. Before that the biggest fps on consoles at least was halo3 which if you put h3 next to xdefiant both have very similar amounts of content for the multiplayer. But because mark and the team blew expectations out of the water with xp, leveling, prestige, challenges and all that jazz a game has to have all those features to a certain extent or form or else a game feels empty. Xdefiant needed at least another year in the oven. It should have never released when it did. The game was so well received when it launched and then just fell apart from every angle. And being tied to Ubisoft while the company just pushes failure after failure just hurt the game even more.
@@MangledRemainz I guess this subsection of the company is just built different. Also those 3 little dots on the side of the comments you can just edit it instead of reposting the same comment. Thanks for being a ally and supporting Ubisoft! ❤️ 🌈
Now explain this to me how Can WARFACE still On the PlayStation store No body play that game and they still updated the game How is this even fair for this Exdefiant
That's easy one company enjoys bleeding money while the other scrambles to maintain what's left. Also why are you complaining considering you yourself left the game.
@@KaitDiaz47 "well" they only survive by providing 10$ discounts to purchase the game so griefers can stock up on accounts get account banned wait until seasons end and stock up again.
i know they're trying to tank the value of ubisoft by not releasing the game to new players--but i would have wanted to play this over bo6. no way i'm paying $60 on sale for a game just to play with hackers
@@lulu-j6e sadly Ubisoft is trying to make the company more attractive to purchase, and sadly adding XDefiant to the list of games they will transfer might not be the most attractive thing right now for other businesses. Sucks that this is how it has to be handled 😪
Can't wait for all the CoD shills to jump on these vids and talk crap about the game or devs and ignore the facts about Ubisoft being the problem. This update was amazing, the intro screen is chills
@@defibdirt8901🍿🥱 yeah guys we gotta stop being toxic.. 🍿🥱 it's not cool our community is fragile enough last thing we want is middle aged men being bullied by a younger generation please stop!
@@drelovestats6715 it kills me every time I see these guys in the comment section about XDefiant lol. I can't think of a single game that I thought was trash and clicked on every video about the game just to shut talk in the comment section. These guys are miserable
I wish they would just keep the servers live for a couple years. I am fine with no updates/new content. Just let us play what is here for a little longer…
@@LucifeRxGoSu are you claiming I should not enjoy games that have low playercounts? Should I only enjoy playing games that are popping off and have massive budgets?
@@JbowenDaManThat’s a nice way of putting it … he is just stating facts the game is dead 💀 and it’s not going to get any support so bye bye 👋 hope Mark Rubin is proud of lying to the player base about the game not dying Lmao 😂
I’m dumbfounded by way Ubisoft conducted their business… a game like this shouldn’t be shutting down. I hope someone sees the potential this game has & buys the IP
@@GullyFootTony I hope so as well bro, but I’m not going to get my hopes up. For now I’m going to splurge on this content the devs cooked up for us!
@ soak it up bro, these maps look so good & have a brilliant flow to them. Haven’t had maps like that for the longest time now
They should honestly give one big huge middle finger to Ubisoft on the way out an pull a paragon by releasing it as a community mode open source.
Matter of fact Ubisoft should just stick to Rainbow six Siege that's the only Ubisoft game that is doing well unlike Hyperscape and XDefiant
@@KaitDiaz47 the crew motorfest is also doing well
Bro this game can’t disappear I just can’t accept it. This update shows everyone how good this game was going to be!
Imagine in 2 years how crazy it would get!!! And keep going!
Server issues were the downfall of this game. Great core mechanics but poor netcode
@ they actually fixed the netcode. Feels way better now. It was just a Ubisoft thing. They messed up star wars and mismanaged so many games lately.
@Minx717 feels better, but still some issues with my bullets not registering and still dying behind cover. There's something weird about aiming down sites with a burst weapon and then going into hip fire. At least for me, it stops firing for a few seconds.
Dude the update is amazing! For the first time in years Im having fun in a fps game again. Please dont die xdefiant
@@ruumelan enjoy it man! These devs loved this project and it means a lot to them seeing all of their work being able to be pushed into the game, instead of being scrapped and thrown away. Grind it out and have a blast!
@JbowenDaMan I will. Every content Creator should start playing this game now since bo6 is not fun at all to play atm. Only good mode in bo6 is Zombies
“Please don’t die"… brother they literally announced it’s shutting down. There’s no saving it. The coping is insane.
@@TobiramaSenju212 no shit
@@ruumelan then stop coping, kid.
We need to create an uproar. We, as the community, need to publicly make as much noise about this as possible.
Make this impossible to ignore!
We aren't ignoring it we just don't care it didn't make money to keep the servers up.
Thanks for being an ally and supporting Ubisoft! ❤️🌈
This is the most amount of content dropped in a launch season, and it was during the sunsetting phase. That is what makes it more sadder than it already is. Plus, they shipped content for Season 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 which I don't know what happens if they did not get shutdown and the factions, maps and guns were released in their respective seasons. I saw Nerocinema and Merk's videos on the new update and I noticed a few things:
1) On some guns, go to the mastery tab and you see nothing.
2) In Merkmusic's video, the Firing Range just doesn't load, it loads a random sandbox with a single floor.
3) In general, they probably were in the middle of implementing the normal stuff for the guns, factions and gamemodes (given the fact that Omega Force from Blood Dragon only has 1 'operator' in the faction tab, the other 2 were to my knowledge, scrapped entirely when they were told to shutdown.)
Mark Rubin, thank you and your team or working hard on the game, despite the obstacles you had to jump through, and I hope greater success from your future projects.
Kind regards,
Subaraz
@@subaraz here’s to the future brother, let’s hope for the best not only for this team, but for the overall genre as well. We finally got some fun alternatives to COD, and sadly it gets wiped instantly😪
I think that’s what we have to take into consideration. So much content dropped, but this is 5 seasons worth of stuff. If you split it up, I think we would’ve still complained about not enough content. Bittersweet situation with Xdefiant. I wish they didn’t pull from the store because I think many folks would’ve hopped in
Ubisoft mishandled a huge opportunity with XDefiant. Sad.
They mishandled Every single game they released this year.
My guess is they shutdown and moved all budget from Xdefiant to AC shadows. AC shadows is Ubisofts last hope. if that game tanks which it likely will not sell enough to make up for its cost, Ubisoft is pretty much done.
@@TheHollowBlade Agreed.
Yep. Ubisoft is terrible. They ruined my favorite game Siege -
@@Rockstarrclarke quiet boy or we will make a trans racial op that's missing a leg and is cross eyed with a stupidly unfair gadget.... 👀 We're watching you...
I love how everyone is making videos about how good the update is. But in reality thats becuz they gave you multiple seasons worth of stuff in one shot. If they drip feed this content over time like they were doing people would not be as excited. Not to mention they prevented new downloads so it cant even lead to a resurgence other than making people return.
Their business model was flawed. People calling the update so great ... well most updates would be labeled as such as if they dropped a year worth of content in a week
Exactly. There needs to be something worthwhile dropping monthly for a game to survive.
Lmfao. Bro ur spitting too many facts. And not to mention… literally half of this update should have been in this game before its release.
I’m sorry, but people who are still coping about this game are just weird.
@@TobiramaSenju212 and you are "weird" to still hating on the game. seems like you are pretty obsessed with it and you have basicly nothing to do in your freetime.
@@Feuersternful Bruh its a game, dont have to defend it like its a new born baby. These guys are all in it for the money. Tried to tell y'all early on but nope, if it wasn't praise we got called haters.
@@Lowsky__ oh and it´s okay when guys like him defend cod the same way? the double standards are real here
A fine example of how drip feeding content can actually go too far. A more generous release schedule could well have turned the game around and they clearly had so much material banked and ready to go.
I genuinely teared up when I played yesterday. I was so happy to see all this amazing content and to try it out. But then only to remember it's all going away.. Thank you Mark & the XDefiant team.
One of the best games Ubisoft developed and they shut it down. Just crazy
It hurts me to see this game go away.
@@sonicgd9416 hurts me as well man, all this potential getting thrown away.😪
Bittersweet. 😢
game was destined to die with the way they had all this content prepared but still chose to drip feed it
Ubisoft is the worst. They have actually proven they don’t like FUN. Just profits. Massive L
Right? It's almost like it's a business crazy concept!
I knew this game would shut down sooner since day 1. I will never play a free to game by ubisoft ever again at this point
6:36 shows this game still has the Wanted curving bullets
Can this game die faster
Oh just let them enjoy their corpse for another 6 months.
Tears ....this is the first game that made me bought skins ...I felt the love
The fact that they had all of this content ready to drop and all we were getting was 1 map a month 😂
@@LucifeRxGoSu indeed it is sad, but they had to follow the plan and I’m assuming where prepping up everything to make their lives easier down the road. Sadly Ubisoft is getting clapped right now though 😪
They were ramping it up to 3 maps per season. And they didn’t drop all the maps and factions and etc. they held back. They didn’t drop the entire 8 seasons, bits and pieces. Which leads me to believe xdefiant will be back at a later date.
The team was small to begin with. A majority of the content they dropped is shit that was leaked when the game launched so most of this content was being worked on before the game even launched. If they dropped this as an official release theres a good chance we would not have any content at all for at least 2-3 seasons while they come up with and create new content. They had it set up so that the team would likely not be overworked and pressured to push content out half assed because they dont have the time to polish the content. They would have dropped a ton of stuff, everyone would have been stoked but the next season when they come up and go “sorry guys we gave you everything we had in the pipeline and now we have nothing to drop this season but heres a battlepass” people would have gotten mad and rage quit claiming the game is dead because they cant do seasonal content.
@ that’s not all the content, they held back.. I have a feeling they will drop one more update, the rest of the 4,5,6,7,8. It’s believable especially when they dropped this on us. What about the factions from 6,7,8 they have the entire 8 seasons this much is true. Either that or some other company will buy it out and then it will continue from there.
@ they would have to buy out all the IPs to be allowed to even have this game be public.. unless they buy the game with the condition that any and all references to Ubisoft IPs are removed which would cost a ton of money to make happen and i doubt any company is willing to take the financial risk of doing that to a game that financially has not proven to be profitable. If it is profitable its far from what any big company would be willing to bother with.
You did it to yourselves and im GLAD to have witnessed it.. truly great times 😂
i loaded into the game last night, looked at the new weapons and new factions it took every thing in me to hold back tears this game while it had its issues was most importantly FUN, and the saddest part was that not only were the devs working they tried to get US the fans What we were wanting and by June it will be gone forever
Since the news of the shutdown i can't get into a lobby, I have tried searching for as much as 30 minutes and I have tried on several different occasions in several different game modes.
I quit playing for a week but just a couple nights ago (midnight west coast US time) I waited 5-8 mins and only had 4 other players waiting with me so I gave up. Last night same time I was literally in lobbies within 1 min flat lol I am KNM player but no IBMM every other player was controller. Try again
This video made my day, I was the Art Lead for the map you captured here (westend from division 2) and the Assassins creed Odyssey map Mykonos for Ubisoft Osaka. I left a while back so wasn’t even sure these maps would ship (despite being done forever) until another team member sent me this video. Happy to hear someone enjoyed all the work we did on these. You are right though that the whole situation is depressing 😢 The game industry needs to change and become a safe place to make a career.
You can’t drop a game in 2025 and not fucking realease any content it’s jus not gonna work every game dies so quickly because of this
@@Faygodreams. yeah, Ubisoft definitely did not manage this game correctly. Seemed like the devs were absolutely cooking behind the scenes, but had to follow a specific agenda.
Are people still "Crying" over this games downfall? It's not like it was anything groundbreaking or out of the box. a simple 6v6 hero shooter (yes that's what it is)
Best 6 v 6 maps in a modern shooter, good gun play, no SBMM, plenty of fun.
@vanquish421 is that all what you guys need for this to be a GROUNDBREAKING experience? Sheesh your standards have lowered drastically, what you said is the bear minimum of what a shooter should have. You said nothing speciaal
@ezequielsarcos207 1) I never said it was groundbreaking. 2) How sad is your life that you're this upset that people enjoy something? Take a good hard look in the mirror and fix whatever is going on with you.
Its so good. Its so sad. If thus released while downloads were opened, the game would have made an INSAnE amount if money for ubisoft. Its just sad that the only good arcade/arena fps game in the past years is getting shut down. I hope the very talented devs find a new job and can supply themselves and their families.
@@UrBoyRicky123 I hope these devs can land on their feet as well, they are amazing people and are very passionate about this project. They deserve the best 💯
Got in a lobby with ya yesterday, pretty cool
@@BronzFor gg man! This new update has been a blast, gonna give it another go today
@ same, hopefully I run into ya again friend
Played with him earlier joined in progess we were both frying ggs
If they had charged $49.99 for the game, they wouldn't be shutting it down.
Now i just wish they had done that. Free to play is awesome unless they take it away after 6 months...
It would’ve shutdown regardless cuz Ubisoft is going bankrupt
just a bad time for the game to come out
@DEANDRE_DTS Any company that passes on $25M+ in revenue is trying to go bankrupt.
(glances at the crew)
Unfortunately there’s rumors that Ubisoft is going to shut down their other games too one by one. Xdefiant is just the start. Idk how much of this is true. Their reason is so they can sell it like brand new company to someone else. Again it’s all rumors, take this with a pinch of salt
XD dead game 😂
What were Ubisoft thinking.... Surely this was presented to the higher ups and they still chopped it. I'm hoping given the millions of players who tried it before, those who want to retry it can find it again to try it. Imagine if the numbers went crazy again.... It won't, but will be interesting to see how feedback, player numbers and the situation develops in the next 6 months......
@@theduftmeister it would be very interesting to see. Especially since the initial 15 million people who already installed the game can still give it another go if they wanted too!
@@JbowenDaMan it would kind of be funny if there was an absolute massive surge of numbers back into the game that end up sticking around. It's a very weird and surreal feeling getting all this content after sunset announcement. I'll enjoy it whilst it's there. Thanks for your XD commentaries.
@@theduftmeister still need to spend money. Just playing wont help. They released everything in the shop for everyone to use so cant even make money even if those million ppl played.
my man is glazing way too hard 😅
Yeah, after playing this update I cried. I think I will probably make some recordings of this game and post them to cherish the memory.
Record the audio aswell we are making a collage of adults crying over our IP as a going away present for the development team.
Thanks for being an ally and supporting Ubisoft! ❤️ 🌈
@@UbisoftLBGTQ sounds like a fairy comment
@@MangledRemainz we like the term inclusive.
@@UbisoftLBGTQ bet you do
@@MangledRemainz indeed our motto at the office is quite cute "our success will never miss as long as we don't hire a Cis" Becky our trans racial non binary team mate came up with it.
How much did they pay you to say thelat
That petition that is going around needs to be sent to Tencent as I’m sure they will buyout Ubisoft next year !
Lol
5000 ppl signed it... that ain't shit
Some unfortunate news: some players, myself included, are having issues with xdefiant after the season 3 update. Basically, the game is crashing for me, sending me back to dashboard (I play on xbox), so the game is pretty much unplayable. Tragic, cause this update does look great, but some people aren't gonna be able to enjoy it. BTW, if anyone has some feedback/recommendations on how to fix this issue, it would be greatly appreciated 🙂
For context is it crashing during the load or during a game? Also was the game installed and then updated or did you redownload it for the update?
Never been more EXCITED LIKE IM A KID AGAIN
and depressed like im a teen again.
At the same dam time😂
After spending a while on the new maps and game modes with the new factions this is so upsetting. The developers knocked it out of the park! So we'll thought out. Such an amazing game!
Honestly, if the game launched with even halve of this content and the prestige system whilst also releasing on steam it'd have stood a better chance. Then they could have moved into the seasonal content. It's such a damn shame. Played for a bit last night and I LOVED it. I wish they'd change their minds and I'd gladly pay whatever I could to keep it going. They should use this as a foundation and start a revival.
The community killed this game more than anything. Too many complaining on Discord and everywhere. Why is this not fixed? Why is this not dropped? Blah, blah, blah.
Keep saying it’s the best game in years
I haven't been able to get online on Xdefiant yet, life is busy right now,but hopefully later today I will be able to get into the game and check out season 3 stuff
Goodbye XDeadfiant lol
So they had all this content and wanted to milk it. No im good
lol “ u guys need to go check this out “
Yeah about that lol. Crazy you can’t even download this shit
We knew what we were doing 😉
Honestly i can care less about this update i stopped playing this boring game after pre season cause of the problems the game had on release and the fact people are ok with mark lying in your face and saying the game isnt dying and then later on looking stupid and announcing the shutdown of this game was absolute comedy,and good content creators like Nerdslayer Studios for his Death of a game video on this shit game covered VALID points on why this shit died and why it was gonna die to begin with
Exactly. They hate COD so much they let a company like UBISOFT out of all companies trick them into thinking this was a good game. It’s pretty unreal lmfao
Bro this game was it. Ubisoft just dropped a massive ball.
All of its amazing content lmao..hence why theyre shutting down..
I’ll be down to team up, which console do you play on?
I play on PC, feel free to hop into the stream I always host open lobbies 👍
Whether someone likes the game or not, they shouldn't have faith in the top management at Ubisoft such as their CEO. It's insane how much he has destroyed.
What completley baffles me the most in the gaming world now, how a game like call of duty is still alive when its just basically the same game every year and people will still go out and buy it. Whats even worse is how a game like fortnite is still alive after 7 years, yet we get a refreshing fps arcade shooter which i cant deny is the most fun ive had on a fps game in years, no cheaters no sbmm bullshit and the game dies under a year timespan. This is how you know the gaming world is now at rockbottom, xdefiant did have its issues im not saying the game was perfect but it was still new, the game had potential to thrive what a waste to see it go just like that almost like it never existed. Shoutout to all xdefiant players and supporters, lets hope somehow someway this game can be kept alive!
Thats because it's wasn't innovative a generic arcade shooter with poorly implemented hero shooter mechanics. Like what you like friend but the community is pretentious as shit and focused more on hating every other game rather than actually enjoying XD. Weather or not people like to hear it but the community had just as much involvement in killing this IP as much as ubi did.
@@UbisoftLBGTQTHANK YOU. Like holy shit… when are the Xdefiant lovers going to accept the fact that they played a hand in this games death.
@@UbisoftLBGTQ ubisoft and the lack of support was what killed this game, not the community.
Why did XDefiant have to come out when Ubisoft was about to run into a financial crisis... D:
We flipped a coin at the office low and behold tails we are just as surprised as you are.
Ubisoft should have waited until NOW to actually of made this the full release with how cod is deader than dead, this would have been the perfect time to launch!
Honestly, breaks my heart a bit that a game like this is shuttung down. I just finished playing a trial of the new COD , and this beats it hand down for sheer fun and laughs. Itll be a sad day when Xdefiant shuts down, if this was released in its now state, with a £30 price tag, it wouldve been worth it. Ubisoft have really disappointed me tbh, they had a good, solid game that could've and would've been exellent.
i deleted the game but now i can’t find it to re download
Console or PC?
console
ps5
Live service for non established franchises just doesn’t seem to work well.
There is no point in paying money on the battlepass when this game is shutting. You won't be able to play it anymore. It's pretty pointless tbh, this game is great, but it's almost a waste to pay money on this game when it's leaving
They literally won’t allow any $ to be spent in the game anymore
Mind boggling ubisoft abandoned the race before end line .... That is very very bad piece of PR tbh
🏎️💨 bye y'all!
So passionate developers had a lot to show off, but Ubisoft only thought of money. Typical story, but I feel sad for Mark Rubin and team. I mean Xdefiant as a whole isn't 100% great and has tons of issues like the inflated progression system that makes it unnecessarily boring and unproductive to play (which is why I left Xdefiant) alongside poor timing on content drops and quantity, but every content they dropped for S4 onward shows how much they really want to show.
Shame on you Ubisoft. This game shouldn't die, Ubisoft failed to capitalize on the BO6 debacle recently.
They add all this cool stuff then 6 months from now it’s all over sucks
@@jrod2198 yep, kills me thinking about it. But Ima enjoy every last second of it!
@ same here
This update is so bittersweet woah it could stick around forever 😢
We wish you spent more money to keep the lights on but here we are.
so there is no chance if XDefiant do better numbers Ubisoft can lift up the game again? like I know there is no hope but I keep saying maybe there is a small chance, like the team created content to S8, 2 years worth of content like if the content is ready the rest of time will be polishing and optimization,.
this is so depressing since the game worth playing and worth the pain like ubisoft didn't included the game in the marketing strategy and they didn't migrate to steam or epic, all of this could help the game... just depressing shit
I genuinely loved this game.. sad to see all this content and then it just dies 6 months from now 😔
I've been using the assassin's creed characters and I'm just loving it
@@GhostFrost524 I’m obsessed as well bro😩 but lowkey all the new factions are insane. Shocked how balanced they are as well since they were pretty much rushed into the game with 0 polish 😂
@JbowenDaMan polished better than rigged ops 6 and borezone 3.0
Maybe if the previous updates had been this content-rich, things might have turned out different
Its just a shame that they didnt use all these maps when the Game needed it, a lot of ppl (including myself were bored of the map by a week or two). they could have released 4 or Even 5 maps per season and maybe (i cant be sure) the game could have last a bit longer
I can’t even download it now
i reinstalled it just to check out everything then uninstalled it again as much as i love the changes and totally called the hidden blade melee for the assassins i know if i enjoy playing it im just gunna miss it more when its finally gone.
Could you imagine if they dropped all of this the beginning of the release? 😮 this game would’ve skyrocketed
Shame on ubisoft
Shame on Ubisoft for sure
they on their last leg
@@DEANDRE_DTS as long as they don't IP ban siege accounts they will stay afloat between R6 the crew and a lesser extent for honor it's enough to keep there nose above water.
god i wanna hop in and play so badly and honor the devs but i also dont wanna hop in and just be sad that its all over
@@ericbrintonmusic I was sad at first bro, but trust me it’s worth it. Don’t miss out on all of this planned content!
oh my fucking god, i have been wanting a mode or something like the “fighting against bots while still earning some xp”. the fact this fucking game is being shut down really fucking sucks it was going to happen sadly i just hope someone sees this game and wants to help them out cuz ts is stupid
This game is so dead. It takes me like 30 minutes to find a match.
i want to cry this sucks.
Just let it out bro..
It's a shame, this game is actually fire, the gun play is so dialled in, and best of all little to no cheaters ruining the pvp experience.
Ubisoft perdió el rumbo va a la quiebra, ese es el motivo hay juegos con mucha menos jugadores y siguen no se entiende, es que perdieron el rumbo futura quiebra. Ubisoft lost its way, it is going bankrupt, that is the reason there are games with much fewer players and it is still not understood, it is that they lost its way, future bankruptcy.
I’m glad they put in the assassin’s creed faction, I’ve been playing assassin’s creed since assassin’s creed 3
I remember when Hyperscape died it was a Ubisoft game. I never got the chance to play the game because I never heard of it before but it's supposed to be a FPS Arena shooter TDM and Battle Royale mode it had abilities but it's not a hero shooter the movement was similar to Titanfall 2 the game died and it was shut down because the game had no skill-based matchmaking (for some reason), balancing issues, Battle Royale long queue times, etc
Less titan fall more like COD with trampolines would be the best way to describe it wasn't a bad game just the gimmick wasn't enough to keep it alive.
if xdefiant would have released with all of this content on day 1 (release, season 1, season 2 and season 3) then we could have talked about this game lasting for a long period, then the game would have had a chance.
Over the course of time I came to conclusiog that it is not networking component that killed this game cos there are plenty broken games in this department that strife nonetheless, it was lack of content, the fact that game looked and felt outdated (it is very important for more people than you think) and specialists, people are tired of those, there is the reason why CoD stepped away from those in favour of field upgrades.
Unfortunately xdefiant missed every single release window opportunity and eventually released in the worst time it possibly could, in a sense I am happy that this game failed, because it will now tell publishers that releasing a bad product (in terms of content, looks, feel and technical condition) without SBMM will not save you.
If they brought out season 1-3, then the game would be in such a terrible state that it wouldn’t have survived the first month let alone if 1,000,000 players jump on it at the same time. Not only that, they would have to look into every bit of code to not only fix core parts of the game but also fix other parts such as bugs and glitches and even visual bugs as well. Even if they did brought in the year worth of content, it would be done within a month and then expectations would be way too high that the devs won’t know what to do.I would’ve agreed to bringing out prestige system in the first season would be a good idea. You can even tell that they weren’t even done with a couple of them including the mastery skins as well and didn’t have all of the skins that could’ve been cool for the game as well.
@ you are very wrong on this one, there are plenty of games that are successful while being is horrible technical state Escape from Tarkovsky for example, BO2 is known for its troublesome connection element and many, many more, people often are willing to overlook technical issues if the game is good and as for high expectations that the game would have had… well expectations were high one way or the other, so I don’t think that anything would have been different in that regards.
@@ruslanagadzhanyan2753 not in this day and age, just look what happened when season 1 dropped and a good portion of the player base left due to it having fps issues. Back from 2012-2016, they were much more patient and was willing to wait. This is 2024 and you can see even before the release of the game, they wanted the game to come out despite having between bug issues, to visual problems and even balancing as well. This wouldn’t be a good comparison due to how people’s feelings, experience, and knowledge of both games and coding back then. Keep in mind if the game made a good portion of players leave just because of season 1 imagine what would’ve happened if they released a year worth of content in one season, the game would break down all together. Don’t forget that when BO6 dropped you had players already reaching mastery camos within 1 day of the game dropped.
@@ruslanagadzhanyan2753 so my comment got deleted for some odd reason so ill put it this way, when Xdefiant dropped season 1, the game was extremely laggy and buggy, now imagine bringing out season 1-3 content, it would be a major problem and even if they fix parts of it, it wouldve died much quicker that way. You talking about games from 2012-2019, players were much more patient and it felt slower due to players only playing games for fun and less about grinding and competitive, now it’s nothing but seeing who can get mastery first. BO6 is a perfect example of this, despite them having loads of content, people were already not only close to master prestige but also got mastery camos on day one of the game dropped.
@ every game nowadays is laggy and buggy on the start, so I still don’t think that anything would have changed, buggy and messy releases has become a new norm love it or hate it, a lot of people left xdefiant because there was nothing to do in the game really.
A Rayman map? Cool… now make a new Rayman game Ubisoft, I’m begging you
Sorry you were a bit muffled when asking that request so I'll just assume you said another Rabbids game.
Yours truly
Love Ubisoft ❤️
I find it kinda sad and ironic that if you think about it. Mark killed this game over a decade ago when him and the team at infinity ward created cod4. Mark and his team there brought up the standard of what an online fps should be. Before that the biggest fps on consoles at least was halo3 which if you put h3 next to xdefiant both have very similar amounts of content for the multiplayer. But because mark and the team blew expectations out of the water with xp, leveling, prestige, challenges and all that jazz a game has to have all those features to a certain extent or form or else a game feels empty. Xdefiant needed at least another year in the oven. It should have never released when it did.
The game was so well received when it launched and then just fell apart from every angle. And being tied to Ubisoft while the company just pushes failure after failure just hurt the game even more.
So much fun! Then we will be disappointed in the next few months. Ubisoft should be ashamed of themselves.
We're pretty chill about it honestly.
@UbisoftLBGTQ sure you are
@@UbisoftLBGTQ sure you are
Ubi derps will not approve comments, fyi
@@MangledRemainz I guess this subsection of the company is just built different. Also those 3 little dots on the side of the comments you can just edit it instead of reposting the same comment.
Thanks for being a ally and supporting Ubisoft! ❤️ 🌈
Now explain this to me how Can WARFACE still On the PlayStation store No body play that game and they still updated the game How is this even fair for this Exdefiant
That's easy one company enjoys bleeding money while the other scrambles to maintain what's left. Also why are you complaining considering you yourself left the game.
Damn you played against Buckeye in the Tommy gun gameplay!
Oh shit and Dkoi👀
This can´t be real :(
So much for yalls cod killer huh
I’m so extremely pissed about this and Ubisoft killing this game!!
this new content is amazing, got me sad the game is shutting down fr
The main menu theme makes me sad. :(
I'm holding on to hope that playstation will buy Ubisoft to be competitive with Xbox owning cod
Shame on ubisoft for letting this game get shutdown, while not a cod killer it's the best free to play shooter
I guess Rainbow Six Siege is the only Ubisoft game that's doing well
@@KaitDiaz47 "well" they only survive by providing 10$ discounts to purchase the game so griefers can stock up on accounts get account banned wait until seasons end and stock up again.
@@UbisoftLBGTQ that's not only the game crew motorfest is a Ubisoft game and that game doing well
@@KaitDiaz47 I would have to take your word on that one I only know the wacky world of siege.
It was a solid game it didn’t need that much hate
Community didn't help the situation much honestly.
Had the worst community and content creators on planet earth 😂
i know they're trying to tank the value of ubisoft by not releasing the game to new players--but i would have wanted to play this over bo6. no way i'm paying $60 on sale for a game just to play with hackers
@@lulu-j6e sadly Ubisoft is trying to make the company more attractive to purchase, and sadly adding XDefiant to the list of games they will transfer might not be the most attractive thing right now for other businesses. Sucks that this is how it has to be handled 😪
In a way this is a one of a kind look into game's an their development cycles an jus how far ahead some of these things get designed.
I would be Happy to pay 60.00 Dollars for this game maybe even more Best game since BO2 and yes agreed just depressing
😂
Can't wait for all the CoD shills to jump on these vids and talk crap about the game or devs and ignore the facts about Ubisoft being the problem. This update was amazing, the intro screen is chills
🥱 dead is dead friend the community helped kill what they loved you are a perfect example of it.
"Xdefiant is not going anywhere" JbowenDaMan 2024
Stop being toxic, if Ubisoft wasn’t broke this game would not be shutting down
@@defibdirt8901 o if the game wasn’t shit and a empty shell of a game it would have not died
@@Itz_Veggiefor a game to be so shit it has you coming back to these comments all the time 😂😂
@@defibdirt8901🍿🥱 yeah guys we gotta stop being toxic.. 🍿🥱 it's not cool our community is fragile enough last thing we want is middle aged men being bullied by a younger generation please stop!
@@drelovestats6715 it kills me every time I see these guys in the comment section about XDefiant lol. I can't think of a single game that I thought was trash and clicked on every video about the game just to shut talk in the comment section.
These guys are miserable
This is just sad. Very very sad.
I wish they would just keep the servers live for a couple years. I am fine with no updates/new content. Just let us play what is here for a little longer…
No money in that it's a business not your buddy.
@ it was just a wish.
@@AaronEnyeart totally get that best of luck friend.
I had a blast yesterday playing it :(
I’d be depressed too if I was still focused on a dead game. It’s over bro. Lol
@@LucifeRxGoSu are you claiming I should not enjoy games that have low playercounts? Should I only enjoy playing games that are popping off and have massive budgets?
@@JbowenDaManThat’s a nice way of putting it … he is just stating facts the game is dead 💀 and it’s not going to get any support so bye bye 👋 hope Mark Rubin is proud of lying to the player base about the game not dying Lmao 😂
@@David13125he’s still coping badly😂😂😂😂😂
LETS GO NEW CONTENT FOR THE COD KILLA WE BACK BABY CANT wait for all the content coming in 2025 for this tittle !!!