by SeverijnUbisoft was working on a new Splinter Cell game that was going to embrace games-as-a-service before it shifted to become XDefiant, a game that the publisher shut down not long after release. This is according to Nick Herman, a developer who worked on the game before leaving to start AdHoc Studios, the team that just launched the episodic game Dispatch to great success. Following the publication of this report, XDefiant director Mark Rubin spoke out to react to the report and share his side of the story.
“I was so excited to be a part of this and help revitalize it, because it’s been dormant for a while,” Herman said told Bloomberg. “And we thought we could tell a great story and do something the fans would love.”
The game was in development “for a few months,” Bloomberg reported, and Herman confirmed that Ubisoft wanted to have it feature games-as-a-service elements.