Despite officially launching the game in the spring of this year, Ubisoft has already announced which is ending development and shutting down its free-to-play team shooter XChallenging. As hyperescape before that, XChallenging I had high expectations, with Ubisoft touting over 1 million players in its closed beta last year. Now, it will disappear quickly as it is no longer accepting new players as of today and is scheduled to shut down servers in full next June.
Despite a delayed release, Ubisoft said that XChallenging had reached over 10 million players in its first two weeks and “exceeded expectations thanks to acquisition and strong average revenue per session day.” However, he was unable to maintain that momentum, and in the fall, rumors of trouble emerged, with Internal games reporting that the number of simultaneous players on all platforms had fallen below 20,000.
Ubisoft states: “The game will continue to be available to all players who joined XChallenging before December 3, 2024. All features, including progression, events, rewards and achievements, will remain available until June 3, 2025.” Planned Season 3 content will still be released and the company will refund anyone who purchased the Ultimate Founders Pack, as well as players who purchased VC and DLC in the last month.
as with Concord developer Firewalk Studios, this closure leads to job losses. According to Ubisoft, “difficult consequences” are leading to the “closure of our San Francisco and Osaka production studios and the closure of our Sydney production site, with 143 people leaving San Francisco and 134 people likely leaving Osaka and Sydney.” . .”