XDefiant isn’t shutting down after Season 4. That’s the message government producer Mark Rubin desires to clarify.
After rumors started to flow into on Tuesday that the sport was vulnerable to being shut down on the finish of Season 4, Rubin took to social media to debunk the claims.
“To be crystal clear there are NO plans to close down after Season 4,” Rubin stated. I’ve actually been in conferences as of final week to debate our 12 months 2 plans.”
He added that the present focus of the group is to enhance the technical expertise of the sport, together with its netcode. He additionally stated that they’re engaged on content material plans for each Season 3 and 4.
So far as the sport’s participant base, Rubin admits that they’ve misplaced gamers for the reason that sport launched. Nevertheless, he insists that its on account of Ubisoft doing “little or no advertising” for the sport.
“We’ve executed little or no advertising so sure our numbers are down however that’s simply to provide the group the time to get the sport in a greater place earlier than we do greater spends on advertising to carry new gamers to the sport and to carry again gamers which have left,” he stated.
GPlayr beforehand reported that XDefiant was vulnerable to shedding help from Ubisoft if its participant base didn’t improved. That is still the case, although it was by no means reported that XDefiant would “shut down”. Within the report, nevertheless, it was talked about by sources that frustrations inside the studio are geared toward management who “have refused to take duty for the mission’s shortcomings”.
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