Smilegate closes the servers of the failed shooter CrossfireX

Over the past few days, we have learned about the infamous closure of several services, but few projects have become less surprising to us than CrossfireX. This is despite the fact that Smilegate’s free-to-play multiplayer shooter was released for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S only at the beginning of last year. Only already since then, the game has had major technical problems.not to mention very negative criticism of two paid single-player campaigns worked on by the Finnish studio Remedy.behind classics such as Max PayneAlan Wake or Control.

The campaigns weren’t helped by the fact that every Game Pass subscriber had free access to one of them. And just recently announced removing a campaign from the Game Pass menu it meant that something was wrong. This was recently confirmed by the creators of the multiplayer component of the game from Smilegate, who announced that they will completely shut down the CrossfireX servers in a few months. An attempt to transfer the success of the Crossfire PC series, which is hugely popular in Asian markets, to the Western market and consoles failed.

CrossfireX servers will be recommended forever May 18/May 2023. You cannot buy anything related to the game with real money, of course there will be no new content in the coming months. However, if you have purchased something within the last 14 days, you will be given the option to request a refund. However, the in-game store will still be open for you to spend all in-game currency until the servers go down, which will also delete all user data and profiles.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about all this is the fact that once the CrossfireX servers are down, even single player campaigns will be unavailable. by Remedy. However, Smilegate does not provide a specific reason for the loss of unsuccessful campaigns. Only in connection with multiplayer does he talk about failures in trying to bring the game to the required level of quality through fixes or new maps, game modes and events. Short and good not only the players, but also the creators were not satisfied with the state of CrossfireX for a long time.

If you’re still craving the world of the Crossfire series, you can pick up the real-time strategy game Crossfire: Legion on Steam, which left early access late last year. The Crossfire HD project is still active in the Asian market.which shares a number of gameplay and content elements with CrossfireX.

It should even still offer both of Remedy’s single-player campaigns, as they were originally intended not only for CrossfireX on Xbox, but also for Crossfire HD on PC. However, the HD version has not yet entered the Western market.so it will not be completely impossible to try both campaigns in the future, but it is unlikely to be very pleasant and comfortable.