In a social media post, Ubisoft said it hoped to release XDefiant by the end of March. However, there are "still some improvements" the studio has to make before it's ready. Right now the focus is on an upcoming 12-hour stress test for the game's servers, and Ubisoft is inviting its early access players to hop in and try to put the servers through their paces.
After this process, Ubisoft said it expects to be able to lock in a public release date and begin to discuss XDefiant's post-launch content plans.
"Thank you again for standing by us," Ubisoft said.
Just this week, Insider Gaming published a report containing behind-the-scenes info on XDefiant's development process. In particular, the report called out a group of executives and directors on the project known internally as "The Boys Club." These people reportedly "caused constant problems for the game's development."
After its latest games didn't meet sales targets, Square Enix is going multiplatform but the company's track record isn't convincing.
Square Enix been multiplatform for decades, a few exclusively-deals doesn't make them any less multiplatform.
SE needs to go all in optimization. Broken PC ports won't help its case, especially with big releases like mainline Final Fantasy
It's actually simple. What doesn't inspire confidence is Square allocating their budgets on the wrong projects such as Forspoken, Avengers, Babylons Fall and Foamstars.
Square has always been multiplatform since PS3/360 days which 80 % of their games are. People kick up a fuss over PS exclusivity but not Nintendo which has more exclusive projects console exclusive from Square.
FF16 has done ok but not enough to fix the blunders that the past mistakes Square has made with some of their projects. FF7 Rebirth is unclear we'll see a PC release for sure so it's hard to say so far not as good as they would of liked.
Then again unrealistic expectations. If it weren't for Sony these games would at least had another 2 years development time. So some people need to be realistic in that regard.
Square Enix just really need to revise its expectations. Maybe consider a change in strategy on dev end as well. Multiplat will help for sure but only good games that are marketed well will sell
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The XDefiant server locations have been revealed, with servers for Middle-East confirmed, along with multiple Asia servers.
Remember this game was in "testing" September 2021 over 2 years of other testing the netcode is still broken and they need more time?
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What is going on over there if they had a product for testing in 2021 then it must have been in full development for a good 3-4 years at that point.
This game is going to be a dsiaster
This is one of those games that you don't know if it actually exists.
Ahh the microtransaction party has been postponed
Wait the entire time I thought this game already released? damn!