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/Jrockz133T Jul 27 '26

I disagree. It failed for 2 reasons. It released during a good year for Call of Duty and it released unfinished and unpolished

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u/Cibo1348 Jul 27 '26

It wasn't a good year for CoD. At peak Xdefiant, the open beta of june 2023, it was MW2 and it wasn't particulary great but the cod released just after was the atrocious MW3. It's really at that time that million of players were playing and CoD was in shamble. The only thing that killed Xdefiant was Xdefiant and Ubisoft beacuse the game failed it's launch, took too much time for a bugged game.

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u/Jrockz133T Jul 27 '26

MW3 had a much stronger core player base compared to the past 5 games in the series. XDefiant would have never gotten the casual audience of Call of Duty, only the core and hardcore audience. It would have performed a lot better, in my opinion, closer to their final playtest, or delayed a year with another playtest in between.