The start of a competitive free-to-play first-person shooter XDefiant was a success. In the first week, 7.6 million players tried the game, which surprised even Ubisoft itself. Three months later, the situation was reversed. The number of active players has dropped sharply The French company is said to be considering shutting down its servers.
The developers from the San Francisco studio are said to have a knife in their throat. The headquarters gave them two upcoming seasons to increase the number of players. This is stated by the famous journalist and insider Tom Henderson from the Insider Gaming server. From reliable sources, he learned that the number of simultaneous players has dropped below 20,000. All platforms are taken into account. According to some sources, this figure is even lower. At the beginning, the game had 700 thousand players at the same time.
Player interest should be in season 3. But there’s a problem. It’s coming out at a time Call of Duty: Black Ops 6Plus there is more competition in the form of Dead end from Valve and Marvel’s Rivals. Developers are right to fear a new wave of layoffs after 45 people were laid off from offices in San Francisco, California and North Carolina last month. XDefiant’s creators point the finger at the studio’s management, which they say has refused to take responsibility for poor results. If there had been a better management approach, there would have been a better work culture, and XDefiant’s problems could easily have been avoided, he believes.
XDefiant for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S was released on May 21, 2024. It offers five game modes, 14 maps, 24 weapons and 44 gadgets. It is possible to fight for characters from other Ubisoft series. There are janitors from The Division, agents from Splinter Cell, ghosts from Ghost Recon, guerrillas from Far Cry 6 or hackers from Watch Dogs. A new season is released every three months. Each should add one new faction, three new weapons and three maps. Naturally, each will come with a battle pass with 90 levels. In the first year, the game will be expanded by four factions, 12 weapons and 12 maps.
First season added content from Rainbow Six Siege. Namely, the GSK faction with members of the GSG9 anti-terrorist unit and their standard equipment. Barbed wire and a grenade protection system await you. Also included are three new maps, three new weapons, a new Capture the Flag arena mode, and a ranking mode in which you compete with each other four on four.
Source :Indian TV
