Ubisoft’s XDefiant has ended | Zing

The French company Ubisoft announced the end of support for the multiplayer event XDefiant. A free game released in May of this year. withdrawn from sale with immediate effectforever closing the gates of the game to new players. However, for existing owners of the game, the game will remain available until June 3 next year.

Meanwhile, the game will see its final third season. At the same time, Ubisoft representatives stated that all players who purchased any paid content in the last thirty days will be returned. An automatic refund will also be issued to all owners of the paid Ultimate Founders Pack.

In addition to supporting the game itself, Ubisoft announced closure of two studiestook part in the development of XDefiant. In particular, these are branches in San Francisco and Osaka. However, the layoff of some employees will also affect the Sydney branch.

As a result of these cuts, more than 270 developers will lose their jobs. The XDefiant action itself from an evaluation point of view met with mixed receptionwhich is characterized, for example, by a rating of 67% on the aggregator Metacritic. Despite this, more than 11 million players tried the game before the first season even began.

Gradual decrease in active users but coupled with an insufficiently profitable monetization model, it finally broke the game’s neck. After the Concord event, this is the second live service from a leading publisher in recent times to end in failure and the subsequent death of its developers.