The listing of video games which have underperformed for Ubisoft from a industrial perspective has grown more and more lengthy during the last couple of years, and XDefiant has been one of many extra distinguished additions to that listing in 2024. Launching earlier this 12 months after an extended line of delays, the free-to-play first-person shooter appeared to get off to a optimistic begin, however with persisting points and a bleeding playerbase, hypothesis relating to its future has grown more and more rampant.
In accordance with govt producer Mark Rubin, nonetheless, gamers don’t have anything to concern. Although some current studies have claimed that XDefiant has did not impress Ubisoft and is about to be shut down after the top of its fourth season, Rubin has taken to Twitter to dispel these rumours, stating that the event workforce is presently targeted on bettering the sport’s core technical expertise, and that planning is already underway for what’s going to come subsequent after Season 4. That, as per Rubin, will even entail extra aggressive advertising and marketing down the road, as Ubisoft makes an attempt to each seize new gamers and entice lapsed ones to hop again in.
“To be crystal clear, there are NO plans to close down after season 4,” Rubin wrote “I’ve actually been in conferences as of final week to debate our 12 months 2 plans. However, proper now we’re tremendous targeted on bettering the technical expertise (which incorporates netcode) and including extra content material for Seasons 3 and 4. We’ve carried out little or no advertising and marketing so sure our numbers are down however that’s simply to present the workforce the time to get the sport in a greater place earlier than we do larger spends on advertising and marketing to convey new gamers to the sport and to convey again gamers which have left.”
XDefiant is on the market on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC. Its presently in its second season of post-launch content material, which kicked off final month.
