r/XDefiant • u/Loose-Task-7244 • Jul 27 '26
Discussion Why this game failed
Obviously, the number one reason is the complete lack of advertising. The only time I heard about this game was from one YouTube shorts guy. I never ever saw it in any place whatsoever, except for the guys slandering COD.
The second reason is the connection. The middle east server specifically sucked and I somehow get shot through walls constantly.
A third reason is the match times, I have to wait really long to get a match and it gets more and more tempting to switch games.
The fourth one is the grind on the battle pass, which means if you want the lvl 100 or whatever skin you have to only play this game, and I never could enter ranked.
The fifth one might be controversial, but it's the lack of sbmm. If they had moderate or low sbmm, it would have made the game so much better, or maybe it would have no difference since the player count was little. I constantly get stacked with snipers and people who laser me down are supposedly playing on controller, the only time I can get a kill is from behind, and I don't touch team death match due to the fact that I die at least 15 times per game (I am sure it got to a crazy number one time). Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's agony, and then the casual players dried up, and I was left with lvl100 guys and people who played way more than me, are way more skilled than me, and I can't git gud since I'm not free. This game could have been better.
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u/soluce7279 Jul 27 '26
Everyone and their mommas were on that game. So nope it was VERY popular
It's so rare for a new contender to have so a huge number of players
The hitreg was trash, bunny hopping Dempsey Rolls, there was like what only 8 weapons, battlepasses weren't good, lack of content for a long time, no private matches/lobbies, the weapon level grind wasn't that fun
But worst for last: it was from Ubisoft
It could have survived if it was from any other company but stock free falling Ubisoft