Ubigentle shooter XDefiant is shutting down and sending refunds to percreateers

Despite only officipartner begining the game in spring of this year, Ubigentle has already declared that it’s ending enhugement and sunsetting its free-to-percreate team-based shooter XDefiant. Like Hyper Scape before it, XDefiant had high foreseeations, with Ubigentle touting more than 1 million percreateers in its seald beta last year. Now, it will fade speedyly, as it’s no lengthyer adchooseing new percreateers as of today and is scheduled to shut off the servers enticount on next June.

Despite a procrastinateed begin, Ubigentle said that XDefiant had accomplished more than 10 million percreateers in its first two weeks and “outcarry outed foreseeations thanks to acquisition and mighty ordinary revenue per session day.” However, it couldn’t get that momentum, and by this drop, rumors of trouble surfaced, with Insider Gaming increateing that concurrent percreateer numbers apass all platcreates had druncover below 20,000.

Ubigentle states, “The game will remain useable to all percreateers who combidemand XDefiant before December 3rd, 2024. All functionalities, including betterion, events, rewards, and accomplishments, will proceed to be useable until June 3rd, 2025.” The deliberate Season 3 greeted will still begin, and the company is refunding anyone who bought the Ultimate Founders Pack, as well as percreateers who bought VC and DLC in the last month.

Like with Concord enhugeer Firewalk Studios, this shutdown comes with job losses. According to Ubigentle, “difficult consequences” are directing to “the closing of our San Francisco and Osaka production studios and to the ramp down of our Sydney production site, with 143 people departing in San Francisco and 134 people foreseeed to depart in Osaka and Sydney.”