A Message to Our Community

Whats up XDefiant Followers,

I’m sadly right here right this moment to announce that XDefiant might be shutting down.

Beginning right this moment (December 3, 2024), new downloads and participant registrations will not be accessible. We are going to nonetheless launch our Season 3 content material within the close to future (actual date TBD) and the servers will stay energetic till June 3, 2025.

For individuals who bought the Final Founder’s Pack, you’ll obtain a full refund. Gamers who made any purchases inside the final 30 days may also be totally refunded. These refunds ought to occur robotically inside 8 weeks of right this moment and you will discover extra particulars on our official web site, XDefiant.com.

A couple of years in the past, Ubisoft and the SF Dev crew launched into a daring journey to develop a brand new arcade shooter referred to as XDefiant. It was from the beginning, an unimaginable problem. Not solely had been we making an attempt to shake up the style by eradicating Talent-Primarily based Matchmaking (SBMM) whereas bringing again a extra “old-school” arcade shooter expertise, however we had been additionally diving into the high-risk, high-reward realm of free-to-play. And for that I wish to applaud not solely the Dev crew but additionally Ubisoft management for taking that probability!

Free-to-play, specifically, is a protracted journey. Many free-to-play video games take a very long time to search out their footing and develop into worthwhile. It’s a protracted journey that Ubisoft and the groups engaged on the sport had been ready to make till very not too long ago. However sadly, the journey grew to become an excessive amount of to sensibly proceed.

I’m, after all, heartbroken to must be penning this put up. Sure, this sport has been a private ardour for me for years and sure, I do know that not all challenges result in victory, however I additionally wish to acknowledge the entire builders who’re being affected by this closure. Each one among them is an actual individual with an actual life separate from our personal and so they have all put a lot of their very own ardour into making this sport. And I hope that they are often happy with what they did obtain. I do know that I’ll all the time be proud and grateful to have labored with such an ideal crew! A crew that actually punched above its weight class.

And what they achieved is actually outstanding. The early response from gamers when XDefiant launched was superb—we broke inside data for the quickest sport to surpass 5 million customers and ultimately we had over 15 million gamers play our sport! That’s one thing to be extraordinarily happy with, particularly contemplating how powerful this style is. So, thanks to the entire builders who put their ardour into making this sport!

If there’s one factor, I hope we will all take away from this expertise, it’s the significance of open, trustworthy communication between builders and gamers. This “player-first” mentality together with respectful, non-toxic conversations between builders and gamers has been one of many standout variations that made XDefiant so particular. From my very first put up about XDefiant, this was the imaginative and prescient I needed to champion, and I hope it leaves a constructive mark on how the sport business treats its gamers and communities.

To our gamers, THANK YOU! From the underside of my coronary heart, I wish to specific my deepest gratitude for the unimaginable group that has grown round XDefiant. Your ardour, creativity, and dedication have impressed us each step of the way in which.

With the utmost of affection and respect,

Mark Rubin, Government Producer, XDefiant