I'm having a brilliant time with XDefiant 🎮💥
I'm having a brilliant time with XDefiant. I must admit that I wasn't particularly sold on the game prior to its release 💔. Didn't play any of the early access periods or betas, didn't do any press previews or anything like that 🔴. Given how hectic and packed this time of year is with brilliant games 🎊, I decided to just boot it up and give it a bash when it dropped, like everyone else did 🕰️. I must say it's a darn good effort - but I'm not sure how long it'll keep kicking 🔨.
I need to stress straight away that these fears don't stem from anything the XDefiant team has done 👏. The game appears - at least to someone putting in two or so hours in every evening 🕰️ - to be well balanced, fast-paced, and a loving send up of many of Ubisoft's modern franchises 🤣. These worries stem entirely from exterior factors: namely the impending release of a new Call of Duty 🎮, and the rough industry environment as a whole 🌪️.
Let's start with Call of Duty - as that's the obvious big obstacle to long-lasting success for any fast-paced arcadey FPS right now 💥. It's no secret that a big AAA release can suck the oxygen out of the room for its competitors 👀. Just look at the slew of otherwise cool games that were swallowed up by the attention maw of Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, and so on 📊. This effect is felt more keenly when a giant release in the same genre as your game comes out 🔥. MMORPGs with a keen and dedicated audience see sharp decreases in playercount when a new expansion for World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy 14 drops 📉. It is a reality of the live service lives that these releases lead 💪.
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