XDefiant, the free-to-play, first-person area shooter developed and revealed by Ubisoft, is formally offline. The servers at the moment are closed, in accordance with a post on the video games’ official X web page.
The servers at the moment are closed – Thanks to everybody who performed the sport ❤️
XDefiant logging off – o7— XDefiant (@PlayXDefiant) June 4, 2025
XDefiant’s days have been numbered since Ubisoft introduced that the sport can be shut down in December 2024. An announcement shared on XDefiant’s X web page mentioned that the shooter did not acquire sufficient traction with gamers and that it was an excessive amount of to “sensibly proceed.”
“Free-to-play, particularly, is an extended journey,” government producer Mark Rubin wrote within the post. “Many free-to-play video games take a very long time to seek out their footing and change into worthwhile. It is a lengthy journey that Ubisoft and the group’s engaged on the sport have been ready to make till very not too long ago. However sadly, the journey turned an excessive amount of to sensibly proceed.”
XDefiant tried to buck a pattern that many different on-line multiplayer video games adopted by ditching SBMM (skill-based matchmaking) in favor of what Rubin known as the “old fashioned arcade shooter” expertise. The experiment, which launched in Could 2024, was not profitable because the shooter barely lasted six months earlier than its writer started the method of shutting it down.
Half the XDefiant group has been transitioning to “different roles inside Ubisoft” since that authentic announcement in December. In line with Insider Gaming, a “skeleton crew” was saved on to run XDefiant till its servers shut down this week. 300 folks at Ubisoft have been impacted by layoffs following the choice by Ubisoft to shutter XDefiant.