XDefiant did not meet Ubisoft’s expectations! – Game News

Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, said XDefiant – an online FPS game that was just released on May 21 this year – did not meet the company’s expectations.

This information is shared from the trading update (Trading Call Update) in which Guillemot answered questions about why the company decided to lower its financial target by 30%.

Nicholas Langlet (of BNP Paribas) asks the following:

“So the Q2 target, is it just Star Wars Outlaws or is there something else underperforming in the portfolio as well?”

Guillemot replied:

“This primarily reflects lower than expected sales for Star Wars Outlaws. We also have lower expectations for XDefiantwhich means we will share more in October.”

Guillemot’s comments in this update are in complete contrast to what he shared in the financial report for Quarter 1.

Specifically, at that time Guillemot shared that the game had a good launch and that the company would continue to develop the community as well as establish a content launch roadmap to gradually establish the game’s position as a leader. firmly in the FPS game market.

Last month, Insider Gaming reported XDefiant There is a risk of losing Post-launch Support if it doesn’t attract more players by the end of Season 3, because the game is gradually losing players and even facing difficulties. in holding 20,000 players at the same time.

Insider Gaming’s report quickly led to the game’s development team itself going online and asserting that the game was not “dead” yet.

Insider Gaming page then continued to share that the game had a daily active user count of less than 200,000 people throughout August and this number increased by about 40% while Ubisoft implemented the giveaway strategy. gift every day.

At the time this article was written, Ubisoft’s leadership was still hoping for Season 3 of XDefiant will attract more players.

This is likely to happen because Ubisoft also said it has decided to release all of its upcoming games on Steam; However, the company has not shared anything about it yet XDefiant Go to this e-store.