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Ubisoft seemingly ditching the "Tom Clancy" brand for XDefiant
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TransTrender
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Hopefully Ubisoft uses a green alternative to replace the energy lost by the reduced RPMs from Tom Clancy's® Spinning Grave Electric Dynamo.
Cyberpunkd
Gold Member
It’s incredible how clueless Ubisoft actually is.
Cyberpunkd
Gold Member
Now that I think of it this is good for the Tom Clancy IP since this game has bomba written all over it.
It would be interesting if they made a rainbow six game based on the book. Resetera would freak out.
JordoftheDead
Member
Had to look up what the fuck XDefiant was and it looks abysmal.
I might be showing my age but what happened to the company that made Chaos Theory and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.
I might be showing my age but what happened to the company that made Chaos Theory and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.
Kenneth Haight
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kanjobazooie
Mouse Ball Fetishist
Rayman faction confirmed?
Revolutionary
Member
They have zero say. Clancy willingly and knowingly sold his name to Ubisoft when he was alive. All they do is sit back and collect royalties.
Ubisoft buys Tom Clancy's name
French video game giant has bought the best-selling novelist's name for use in media products.
www.cnet.com
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smart_brazileiro
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Tom Clancy should ditch Ubisoft. (if he wasn't dead)
Saucy Papi
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I'm not sure if I would have ever classified EA as the pinnacle of gaming but Ubisoft used to be my favorite developer/publisher and I cannot even begin to be excited about anything they do anymore. Just bloated, microtransaction heavy garbage now.XDefiant
Every day, I keep hating, what ubisoft has become. Them and EA were pinnacle of gaming. Now they are nothing but turds.
kingfey
Banned
The early games of EA were good (need for speed, early fifa, bioware, battlefield). But went downhill after that.
Varnish La PS
Member
Tom Clancy's xD
Bernd Lauert
Banned
W for Tom Clancy
Kiddo Cabbusses
Member
I'm taking this as a red flag for this game's potential reception on release.
purpletentacle
Member
so uh.... what the hell is an XDefiant?
Craig of War
Banned
That a genius move the Name alone is worth BillionsThey have zero say. Clancy willingly and knowingly sold his name to Ubisoft when he was alive. All they do is sit back and collect royalties.
Ubisoft buys Tom Clancy's name
French video game giant has bought the best-selling novelist's name for use in media products.
Guileless
Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
Tom Clancy books from the 80s don't exactly fit neatly wtih the mindset that pervades Ubi's writing rooms. Jack Ryan the book character became the president, not explicitly GOP but it was clear from the political opponents in the books that's what he was.
Dream-Knife
Banned
They did. It came out in 1999. It's the best game in the franchise.
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Saucy Papi
Member
Bioware was actually its own independent studio before EA bought them out right around the time Mass Effect 2 came out. You can see their level of output after that which is why so many people resent them. Maxis, Westwood, Bioware, etc... The studios they buy out either die or decrease in quality.
Cyberpunkd
Gold Member
Ubisoft is EA with actually good project management - equally creatively bankrupt, but at least they ship games on time.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Awesome
Now ditch the game. It's shit.
Now ditch the game. It's shit.
AllBizness
Banned
It's like Ubisoft is stuck in 2010 or something, this game is just not going to cut it in 2022
Cyberpunkd
Gold Member
Do you really think there is a place for another GaaS without radical change to the established paradigm? I don't think so and likewise - this game does nothing new.
DZ_b_EZ
Member
It's an Ubisoft executive in a clown suit.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Publicly the Tom Clancy name is respected.
CuteFaceJay
Member
So what is this xDefunked thing?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
They should dump the full name. Probably the entire game. I have no idea what it is, but it sounds edgy and stupid.
Zannegan
Member
To your question, I honestly don't know how any of the GAAS hamster wheels make mounds of money selling skins and season passes, so I'm not really fit to judge. Lol.
But I didn't say it would be good or even successful--can't stand the whole skate deck/meme dance vibe meself, in fact. So, while it may not make a material difference, this seems like a good move. It can't hurt at least. *shrug*
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IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Everything You Need to Know About XDefiant
Tom Henderson reports on everything you need to know about the upcoming game XDefiant, from new maps and a hopeful release date for this year
whatifgaming.com
In March 2022, Ubisoft would drop the Tom Clancy brand and rebrand the title as a Ubisoft Original under the name XDefiant. The rebranding has meant that Ubisoft can now utilize its full range of IPs to introduce characters from other Ubisoft franchises into the game.
The first non-Tom Clancy faction to come to the game since the rebrand is the DedSec from the Watch Dogs franchise. If you’re not familiar with the DedSec, they are a secret hacking collective in the Watch Dogs series, and in XDefiant, they are built around hacking enemy equipment and 3D printing and replenishing their team’s grenades back.
DedSec is not the only change to come to factions either, with Wolves being renamed to Phantoms and the Outcasts have been removed from the game, at least temporarily. XDefiant’s factions now consist of:
Phantoms – From Ghost Recon games
Cleaners – From The Division games
Echelon – From Splinter Cell games
Dedsec – From Watch Dog games
Outcasts – From The Division games (Ubisoft has hinted that a healing faction will come to the game soon).
It’s expected that each faction will have at least three different characters to pick from, however at the moment Dedsec has 2, Cleaners have 3, Echelon has 1, and Phantoms have 1. At the moment, factions share the same perks and ultimate abilities, but you’ll be able to pick one unique ability.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Ubisoft’s is holding a cross-play test for its free-to-play FPS XDefiant this week | VGC
PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC players can register to participate…
www.videogameschronicle.com
Having held several ‘Insider Sessions’ for PC players last year, the latest playtest will see PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC users playing together from February 16-20.
Participants will be able to sample four game modes and 13 maps, including a new battleground called Pueblito, which is set in the fictional Caribbean nation of Yara introduced in Far Cry 6.