The faith of XDefiant<\/em>‘s diehard fanbase is beginning to waver. Concerns have continued to grow over the state of the game, with some failing to see how Ubisoft’s highly-touted shooter can survive beyond 12 months.<\/p>
Ubisoft doesn’t provide concurrent player counts<\/a> to prove a drop in interest around the title, but there are other signs, such as dwindling Twitch viewership, as pointed out by members of the community on X (formerly Twitter)<\/a> on July 29. The game launched in May with over 75,000<\/a> tuning into various streamers, according to TwitchTracker, but the dropoff in viewership has been sharp with just over 1,000 watching, as of the time of writing.<\/p>
Twitch viewership isn’t particularly indicative of a game’s success, but there are other signs, such as Ubisoft’s own Community Challenge system. Ubisoft provides an extra weekly challenge for players as a whole to complete to earn extra in-game goodies, but for the past month<\/a>, the community has failed to meet the targets devs have set. This week’s challenge looks to be no different; needing 100 billion XP as a cohort, XDefiant<\/a><\/em> players hadn’t even reached a quarter of the target with just two days left.<\/p>
One of the XDefiant<\/em> challenges required the playerbase to use abilities to get kills which, aside from such a lofty target set, wasn’t progressing due to a bug. This, plus the constant barrage of player complaints over long-standing issues like net code<\/a>, as well as longer search times (something executive producer Mark Rubin said the team was addressing<\/a>), have many worried XDefiant<\/em> is on the way out.<\/p>
All eyes turn to late October for the release of competitor Call of Duty<\/em>‘s Black Ops 6<\/a><\/em>. The Ubisoft shooter was set to arrive around the same time as Modern Warfare 3<\/em> last year but constant issues and delays<\/a> saw players wait almost a full year to play\u2014with XDefiant<\/em> dodging the CoD<\/em> release. <\/p>
They won’t be dodging Black Ops 6<\/em> and CoD<\/em>‘s arrival on the Game Pass<\/a>, so we’ll be watching with keen interest to see where the XDefiant<\/em> community’s loyalty truly lies. In the meantime, Ubisoft, can you please reduce the community challenge requirement?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
