All the public and insider news I have contradicts XDefiant losing support from Ubisoft. There's a lull but that's normal. Draw your own conclusions on if Activision is meddling with a hitpiece but this is the same company that: -Hid SBMM from us for five years and made all devs sign NDAs to not discuss it -Gaslit us on SBMM when we literally forced them to talk about it -Shut down a fan made mod hours before release so people couldn't refund MWR -Holds weird racist struggle sessions for devs -Released the Black Ops 6 hype stuff days after XDefiant released -Blacklists creators if they are even slightly critical of the game (in some cases they fine pro players)
@@patricklitterallyit4164 people hop on a bandwagon hating this game the moment it launched because everyone follows streamers and take their words for it, once streamers say oh this game is horrendous half their fan base drops the game and goes to whatever that someone plays again.
The game is kinda shit to begin with played it when i came out about 20 hours in total and had to quit cause the hit reg was so fucking bad on guns that i want to use that why you have a meta around like 3 guns and the snipers I hate games like that cause the game becomes stagnant seeing the same shit and this isnt just a this game thing its every shooter on the market and its worse when you consider only like 15 guns come on release its game made quit again just a few days ago due to just seeing the ak and l96 got bored and uninstalled it again this game will dye due to ubi not balancing things and allowing metas to stick around for to long
@@KDub7 The article came out a day before the BO6 beta, talking about XDefiant “dying”, but it seems to be Activision just trying to throw it under the bus to get more players to play BO6. The H2M mod was also shut down a day before release, as Activision was worried that it would affect the amount of BO6 sales. The connection is that these both happen a day before something Call of Duty-related, and they both have to do with Activision being greedy
They completely rushed the game and to be very honest I’m so disappointed in mark rubin for rushing this game cod would have been killed off had they took their time
Ubisoft leadership is truly that braindead though. I’ll use The Division 2 as an example. They released a big expansion, Warlords of New York, with 4 seasons of content after that, and kept a big playerbase through the pandemic. Ubisoft had Massive abandon the game right after despite its success, moved most of the veteran devs off the game, and gave the story an anticlimactic and rushed ending. 6 months later, they go “wait TD2 has players” and put a skeleton crew onto the game who have bumbled around and wrecked the game ever since because they had 5-6 guys at Massive find a bunch of new devs who barely know what they’re doing and make strange gameplay decisions. It doesn’t take a conspiracy for Ubisoft to make crippling decisions. Also, the next 2 faction leaks aren’t new, a dataminer already said those before Season 1 launched.
played division every day for years, massive was complete trash dev team. Division 1 had so many problems but DZ was so much fun that everyone ignored them. then the vanilla dz came and we all quit.
Cant disagree, the fact that they took Devs away to initially make heartlands and then star wars is a complete joke (considering one was cancelled and the other straight up failed). The fact that now whenever a new update comes players will talk about what's gonna be broken rather than fixed is a clear indication that something is clearly wrong with the management of the game at this point in its lifecycle.
Why pay $70 just to have fun for 1-2 months then burnout due to SBMM? Would much rather have a solid free to play option! Competition is a good thing and reading that article just made me want to hop back in so it DOESN’T go away.
Let’s face the facts bo6 is dog shit even the zombies I would rather play a free to play game all xdefiant needs is more content which we’ll get in season 2
@@Ant_Stark i could list off paid games that are better too. why buy the same game over and over? just for some new skins? then they also dont let you use the stuff you already bought like come on people. WAKE UP
How are people defending Call of Duty/Activision? I see a lot of people saying “no content” but can you explain to me what content CoD is providing? The “community” keeps giving them excuses to recycle REUSED maps and content for about a decade. “We want old WZ back, we want the Kar 98 back”. They have reused the same weapons, maps, playlists for years. You wanna know what content they have brought? STORAGE SIZE, MORE STORAGE SIZE. THATS IT. Their campaign was legit warzone, their zombies was WARZONE, AND THEIR WARZONE MAP SUCKS. They have released a handful of new maps and they SUCK.
@Pevoid nah, some ppl don't care about the hate and play CoD 🤦♂️ Besides, I checked the stats, and they still get 10M+ concurent in total cods jeez talk about the game being "dead and worse"
Content of having Campaign, Zombies and Multiplayer. Don't act as if we're not using the same weapons that we've been using for years on XDefiant. There's more maps in COD, Prestige, more weapons, Unique Camo challenges, better net code. This game is good but it lacks content. I don't like modern CODs but it definitely offers much more than what XDefiants offers. Everyone was using the same damn weapons in this game, game was sweaty as fuck even though SBMM didn't exist, everyone was Slide jumping, Strafe jumping everywhere. People acted as if this was the COD killer and that was exactly what killed this game.
Honestly, the game is fantastic. I can see XDefiant staying relevant for years, while BO6 will likely be forgotten, buried under the yearly CoD releases that keep splitting the player base.
Better hit reg i can tell u how many times i shot some1 with a shotgun zero damage servers are still a mess the fixxing takes foreever etc like i am a patient man but not for mouths😅😂
Lets be real. Ubisoft itself sabotaged XDefiant. The engine being the same for The Division instead of using the engine for Rainbow Six Siege. Taking so long after the beta to release and nothing noteworthy was added in that timeframe. Still existing issues (hit registration being bad, hitting the same button multiple times to throw a grenade, etc). Ubisoft as a company has been pretty bad for a long time at this point. Look at their stock value, 20 dollars in February 2021 to 2.61 as of today. They let so many brands and game options die or get mismanaged. Look at Rainbow Six Extraction, cool idea and most embarrassing execution. It even lacked letting players use skins from Siege in Extraction and vice versa which would have made people a little more willing to play. Splinter Cell has been dead for just over a decade. Ghost Recon became a looter shooter when it could have gone back to something more along the lines of Phantoms, Future Soldier, and Advanced Warfighter and become a fun 3rd person shooter. Even Ghost Recon Frontlines could have been a good game if they didn't fumble it and make a Battle Royale with it. The company is like Sideshow Bob continually stepping on rakes.
@@Enemy_Operator2534 EA is far worse than either of them, but overall Activision has been more controversial than Ubisoft in recent times with the hazing of its employees, purposely releasing unfinished games purely as cash grabs, putting their studios on unrealistic deadlines ( Sledgehammer hasn't had more than a year and a half on either of their last two games to develop the games)
bro is not the manipulator💀 hating every single thing and giving and giving bo6 the fault (not even activision) is just embarrasing. its really entertaining tho keep that shi up
I still have an easier time finding a match in XDefiant than ANY CoD game. The game is fine, I just dislike the Ubisoft crossover aestetic, lack of maps, & XP gains for objective play.
Black ops 6 won't last a year the cod community brain has rotted to the point of where anything somewhat decent is great in they're eyes if you get this game im convinced u like putting yourself through mental trauma plenty of better games people but that's just my opinion
I've played quite a few FPS games but i have never played a single CoD game before, but i played the Beta and i genuinely had a good time. For an FPS game the guns feel fun, the animations are great, the maps are decent, and i like the gamemodes and progression. one of the most fun FPS games i have ever played.
That's cool but I'm done with cod last great one was bo4 In my personal opinion I like to keep my sanity instead of sweating my ass off every game and gaining nothing in return
@@anti-tryhard(18 comments on this channel) Ur a call of duty shill bru the beta was absolutely terrible I was running around with a 2kd avg but between the omni movement terrible maps and the game freezing constantly i could hardly get through a full game w/o having issues.
and his subs that back em make it even worse lmao mind u, i side w his cod hate when its warranted but at this point im just starting to think a lot of people just couldn’t shoot back on the bo6 beta 😭 cod pros , streamers & players had nothin but positive shit to say bout the beta but some it’s dog shit lmfaoooo
Dude this game ended itself. You wanna talk so much smack about call of duty fanboys but here you are making up wild conspiracy theories saying Activision is killing it. No it’s Ubisoft so stop being a fanboy blame truth
Why not? If you don’t like the game that’s fine, but why go to a video talking about it and hate on the game? You can stay on rigged cod, nobody’s forcing you to change to X defiant
💯. I will never play it again unless they get rid of EOMM, fix their spawns, maps, weapons balance, and servers. In other words I will never play COD again.
@@Minx717 I will never play that game bc it just straight up not look like a call of duty: black ops game. This is straight up garbage. Remake of MW3 wih a mix of Cold War. 4 years.🤯😤
mark recently tweeted that the game is doing phenomenal even with player drops. They have huge plans in the works. Season 3 will be bigger than 1 and 2 combined and season 2 is about to be a banger with SND and customs.
Unfortunately XDefiant is eventually going to fizzle out like all "COD Killers" do. As someone who plays a variety of FPS games this game appeals to nearly only COD fans. This game has no pull on any other fps community like R6, Battlefield, Halo, Titanfall, Valorant, Overwatch, etc the mechanics, maps, gameplay is all call of duty influenced and when you do that the game is doomed to fall quickly because COD fans will complain all they want but 95 percent of them will never play anything else
Coming from a corporate environment, I highly doubt they decided to just fire off 10 employees on a profitable, successful project. I wouldn't be surprised if they were simply contract workers that were part of the initial development of the game, but wouldn't necessarily be part of the ongoing team. Makes sense, too, for the team restructuring as they pivot from development to maintenance and optimization.
forget the fact Ubisoft have had some massively under-performing games releases - Avatar, Outlaws, Mirage, skull and bones.....think Xdefiant is probably one of their best performing games the last 6/9 months
@controverso4149 tbf Xdefiant was free and never earn too much money but it failed because of 3 reasons in short 1 Ubisoff clearly owns them. 2 They had delays and released it at the worse time. 3. It's slowly becoming Split gate and being killed by Ubisoft So yeah I don't think Ubisoft will actually last they could be on a brink of Bankrupt Activision wouldn't give a shet about the actual haters and critics their game just thrived because they only release cod and have a bigger playerbase now. They no longer make THPS, Spyro,Crash, and Guitar Hero.
“They don’t need a battle royal” they don’t need any other modes” 😂 Multiplayer is DYING. If it’s not an OG game it’s cooked. You might not think it’s dead or dying but the numbers are definitely down and not trending up. I love competition for cod but it needs to be a high level competitor for it to work.
Games that are still running expansion pack schemes are more fun because the focus on the CORE game is what matters the most with expansions taking secondary.
I haven’t had much game time on XDefiant simply due to not playing much FPS any more, but I’ve had more fun in that limited time than I have for years playing CoD lmfao.
That article could be a hit piece for sure, but this video is the highest level of glazing Ive seen in a good minute. This some tinfoil hat wearing, hidden in a basement with a farraday cage around the router type BS. I want xdefiant to succeed but at some point, the blame is definitely on them for not having enough content to keep people on the game.
While watching this video, I set myself the challenge of diving into the comment section to see how long it took me to find the phrase "tinfoil hat"! Not long, Lol and I'm totally with you. I want X-Defiant to succeed and I think Activision are scumbags but come on man - X-Defiant is suffering from a lack of content and that is directly the reason the player numbers are dropping. Not because Activision is paying for hit pieces. Not even COD players like Activision but you're off the deep end with the conspiracies BT
I was thinking the same thing Ubi is just as big as Activision at what point do you come to realize that the game cant hold people because it the same sweaty shit that we see every year from CoD with out SBMM
I hope the game succeeds. I hate how it plays and 80 percent of the weapons feel absolutely unwieldy to use and the characters look off but I genuinely hope this game succeeds. Its the only game from ubisoft I feel has a place in the free to play community that needs to prosper.
Look i respect you i like xDefiant, but the problem isn't cod the problem is lack of the xDefiant devs fixing major problems such as the netcode and focusing on slowing the game down to make up for the bad netcode. They are driving the people the attracted away. I don't play cod or xDefiant I've literally gone back to a nearly 20 year old game and have had more fun there than both cod or xd.
They are working on netcode… at least it isn’t packet burst city like CoD and their forced texture streaming which I still can’t even believe became a thing
Bruh you are coping so hard. I don't understand the mind gymnastics. Like your saying why are they hiring devs and adding resources to a dead game? Maybe bc they are trying to stop their game from dying. It's not that hard to understand. Nothing is contradicting the article like your saying. Everything your reading is just saying that they are working on the game.
I still think it's going to be tough for this game to grow. Most games need casual players in their playerbase. This game caters to pubstompers and sweats. When that's most of the playerbase, casuals aren't gonna like getting stomped and want to hang around.
I see a lot of casuals play this game but if they don’t like getting stomped on and don’t want to put the time in to improve go play cod where sbmm holds your hand bcs you have skill issues 😂
@@BXSEDCHRIS The reality is some people work full time and either can't or won't put that time in; plus, you have an entire generation of people who only know Cod SBMM. Sure, a lot of people tried this game when it first came out, but long term how many will stay? I hate to say it as I'm not a fan, but I think these other games have SBMM for a reason - it retains more casual players, at the cost of alienating the hardcore players, which are probably a smaller population size than the casuals.
@@BXSEDCHRISBruh Get A Life.. You Guys Are What Killed The Game.. Nobody Could Get A Chance To Enjoy And Learn The Game Because The Try Hards Figured Whatever Out From Beta And On.. lmao I Couldn’t Even Get Ny Settings Right Before These Dudes Where Running Like They’ve Been Playing This Game For Years..
And not even Microsoft or any other it's all the games really. Ps4 and 5 included. It just happens to be a lot of Xbox shutting down a lot of their coders
You either play what you want to and realize all publishers are shitty including Microsoft, Sony, steam, EA, Ubi, etc or keep that same energy and quit gaming all together. Enough with the sheeps cloak over the eyes. Y’all don’t realize how hypocritical y’all sound. XDefiant is a fun game. Who cares who made it unless you’re willing to feel the same way for all publishers.
Each time I watch your vids, I hear “The Thing” more and more (music wise) and considering the movie itself and what you talk about… it’s just very fitting since that movie is basically about trustworthiness and despair
Sadly, I think XDefiant was a hit because there was nothing else to play when it dropped. I played it a lot when it release but haven’t touched it for the last month.
Jnyxzi the reason behind that games relevancy, the game is actually buns now. Either its a major nerf to a gun or gadget that didn't need to be touched is classic ubisoft. Operation New Blood is a new low for R6.
Ubisoft is insane… THIS GAME WILL FLURISH DURING THE 3-6 month period after BO6 releases. XDefiant started strong and my F2P friends were in the game! Obviously these games are competing. Ubisoft shouldn’t be surprised AT ALL if they see a decrease during the F2P Beta of BO6 cause ITS FREE AND TIME LIMITED. XDefiant isn’t hated by the mainstream. Which is far better than their Star Wars and Assassin’s Game which are set to fail!
Bro, an executive being asked for comment about his company's product and saying, "I'm optimistic about the future and our ability to rise to the challenges ahead" is nothing more than polished corpo speak. In fact, if anything, that statement could be seen as alarming considering that if things _were good,_ that same executive would be screaming those good stats/figures from the rooftops.
Wait up! How are y’all blaming COD for Xdefiants fall off, am I going crazy here? xdefiant a great game, but I don’t see what activision/COD got to do with it, not to mention those points you listed seems a bit desperate to convince the viewers somewhat, am confused 🤷♂️
I mean... they literally used some of the community like labour rats lol, they canceled the H2M last hour (to win more money), and other bunch of things you can search about. If you really know whats happening, you know that this is not a impossible thing to happen lol.
stuff like this is why the game is falling off lol peoples hatred for cod cause them to ignore problems til is was too late and told casual to go play COD and they did people forget siege went through the same thing but luckily jynx brought some good light to the fanbase
Doesn’t even make sense. The game had a profound launch. Ubisoft knows from personal expected that a good launch to player dip can still pay off. Look at siege. Look at for honor. Their best multiplayer games are games that had a strong launch, lost all their players and then had a profound comeback. Xdefiant is their strongest launch, so why wouldn’t they extend the same grace to this game as they did to siege and for honor?
Ubisoft's biggest cash cow atm is Tom Clancy's The Division 2 developed by the same studio Massive. Maybe they are putting more money in Division 2 than XDefiant.
I mean…. CoD is a household game no matter how much people do not want to believe it Anyone thinking XDefiance was gonna compete with a new CoD is extremely Delusional
Why are you begging for a game to fail? Yeah some games deserve it, but it's so strange for this one. If anything, you should want this to live. Yeah it's not perfect, but guess what, no game is.
He did make some good points. It is Activision Blizzard we are talking about so they would pull out the scummiest tactics possible. It also doesn't make sense how the article was posted so close to the beta and how the game goes from 10 million to 20k in like 3-4 months. That is not possible
Blame please tell them they need to fix the store. One thing I have to say is the skins for factions and weapons are not exciting at all. I actually want to spend money but nothing grabs me. The art team needs to do better.
I'm glad we're talking about this. I was one of the people who commented about Tom Henderson's article on your vid. While I really hopeful seeing that you have a solid rebuttal personally speaking I have been facing issues finding matches in European servers and Asian servers. It takes at minimum 10 minutes at night for me, which I believe is the "peak", and then 15+ minutes during daytime which feels like the dead hours. There's definitely a big dip in the playerbase and honestly its painful for me now.
@@BlameTruth Its like you said, its the Golden Goose that Ubi desperately needs. The recent Outlaws release has hit them bad in the stocks, and its kinda expected AC Shadows will do the same. I guess I really needed to hear it from you BT, thanks a bunch for investigating this matter.
Yeah west coast here it takes 5 minutes for to find a match over this past double xp weekend in the 24/7 maps I think it has a really bad problem with player base definitely rather ride this train out then spend money on the IRS of the gaming world (COD) pay $70 for a glitchy game then 30 for battle pass each season.
@ricinquill Do you have the same times on the Asian and European servers? I'm playing on Eu servers and while it is true that it takes longer now to find a match, it rarely takes me more than 1-2 Minutes.
XDefiant will probably be my FPS of choice for the next couple of years if they keep coming out with good content. Rockefeller is easily one of, if not, my favorite map in the game and I’m interested to see how things will play out in the later seasons. Only thing I think needs to be fixed (and fixed ASAP) is the servers. Also, I hope Mark Rubin’s Mom is doing okay. ❤️
@@clarkey7773 I see where you come from. But me personally, I don’t let that stuff change my opinion on which game I think is better personally. Even though XDefiant has definitely fallen off over the last couple of months and I really think those servers have just got to go, I would still rather support that game over the new era of CoD. To me, the modern era of CoD is nothing short of a cash grab that manipulates you into thinking that you’re better at the game than you actually are (a la SBMM) to entice you to buy these garbage, overpriced bundles that are literally being made with A.I., all the while the things you complain about literally every single year will never be fixed either because of incompetent developers or Activision won’t let them mixed in with the fact that these people simply make way too much money for any change to happen. It’s just a cycle that keeps repeating itself, which I was really hoping that they would just do away with in 2023 after those leaks were coming out…but no. They would rather you make a $70 transaction of a game that is literally a glorified patch at the end of the day than give this franchise a chance to breathe and show that they have any semblance of care for the consumer at all. It’s disgusting and I’m tired of it!
Only real thing that xDefiant needs to fix is the delay between what server sees and what client does. Like its driving me crazy that i hear and see hitmarkers but in killcam enemy has max hp or has not taken dmg from my last bullet that in my screen i hit, heard the sound and see the hitmarker.
Cod betas are always a 2 months before release, and saying black ops 6 is being released earlier than any other cod game has been, its means the beta come out earlier too, xdefiant was fun for a few weeks
Or maybe the game is falling off? 😭 Not everything is a conspiracy, the game is dying because of lack of content. They had it perfect but ruined it lmao
@@spectre1004 I did? Like usual he’s just yapping his mouth. Just because they got more devs, doesn’t mean the lack of content. Like 1 new map per a month with basically nothing else?? That’s pathetic
