Ubisoft has officially announced that it will be shutting down XDefiant, its free-to-play live-service shooter that was meant to compete with the likes of Call of Duty and Battlefield. Ubisoft, which has sometimes struggled to retain player interest in the wide-spanning shooter genre,

A little over six months after its launch, Ubisoft has announced that it will shut down XDefiant, its free-to-play first-person shooter, in 2025.

"As a result, the game is too far away from reaching the results required to enable further significant investment, and we are announcing that we will be sunsetting it." Starting immediately, XDefiant registration and downloads will no longer be available.

Many individuals are curious about why Ubisoft shut down its recently launched game, XDefiant. The publisher announced the free-to-play first-person shooter game back in 2021. After developing it for a year and gaining traction in its beta versions via Twitch,