It's been a week of closure announcements in the world of Xbox and we've got another game to add to that list, as Metacritic's worst-rated Xbox game of 2022, CrossfireX, is officially shutting its servers this May.
The news was announced by the CrossfireX team today, with the explanation being that "the game was ultimately not where it needed to be", even despite the significant amount of free content that was added over the past year.
"It is with the deepest regret that we are informing you of our decision to end support for CrossfireX on May 18, 2023. Since the launch of the game, we have worked tirelessly to bring it to a point where we can all be proud, and throughout it all we have had the honor and pleasure of supporting our players."
"While our team worked hard to push out numerous content updates including fixes, new maps, modes & in-game events, the game was ultimately not where it needed to be. As a result, we have made the difficult decision to close the game."
Unfortunately, the server closure will affect the paid single-player campaigns as well as the free-to-play multiplayer, so nobody will be able to access any part of the game after May 18th, 2023.
All sales of the single-player campaigns and other paid content has already been halted, although the Operation Catalyst portion is still available with Xbox Game Pass at the time of writing - it's expected to be removed mid-February.
It's a sad end for CrossfireX, then, which had improved significantly in recent times, but unfortunately never managed to recover from its terribly poor reception back in February of 2022. Another one bites the dust!
What are your thoughts on this? Let us know down in the comments section below.
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Wow so no refund on my money huh.
Lol, they are shutting down the single-player? Wow, can they suck any harder?
WTH out of nowhere they immediately won't let us purchase Operation: Spectre to play it before the game dies!?
Worst? I was told this was game of the year last year
"GaaS is great!"
I actually payed £20 for this crap. Are they giving out refunds?
Shouldn't be allowed to make the single player campaign inaccessible
So hope Microsoft is refunding every single dollar spent on this PoS, instead of just closing the server. Shutting down a paid game after 15 months is definitely not acceptable. The 10 or so people that bought this need to be refunded.
@Kaloudz the game was horrible i played i think 5 rounds and that made me happy to play any other shooter.....
by the way this is why games that have single player online suck and why i never buy any game with a persistent online anything....if thats not the case as i didnt play the campaign then why would the single player be locked out when the servers are shut off..
No need to keep it going really. If it's not being played why waste resources on it. A lot of underperforming live service games are being shut down this year it seems. Reallocate them resources to something new.
Man! At least they should have made the campaigns free to play for a little while. What's the point of making them inaccessible?
@NEStalgia oh hey. You’re back here after battling the hive mind 😜
The thing that surprised me the most about this diaster is that Remedy did the single player campaign and it was sh*t. They’re one of my fav devs.
Let's just hope all these live service games shutting down means everyone learned the lesson that 99/100 live service games fail and aren't worth it
@EliJapan It's like paying for a concert and after intermission they just end it and say "well guys we tried to get the instruments in tune, but it just didn't work out, drive safe folks!"
@Fenbops LOL, a hive that marches straight into fire excited by its warmth. Fortunately the hive is much smaller than it first appears at a glance.
Remedy runs hot and cold. Never bad, but they're either really shining, or they're kind of rough and dodgy. This game is certainly below their par though.
This game was shown part of the series X/S showcase back in mid 2020. That's insane.
@NEStalgia in this case Remedy definitely bad. Although I have a feeling external factors lead it to be as tragic as it turned out and it’s not all on them.
I’ve been playing Alan Wake remastered and I’ve been enjoying it immensely. I played it back on the 360 but have only really started to appreciate it this time around. Remedy make interesting games and I like that.
@Fenbops Max Payne is a stone cold classic, no doubt.
Disgusting that the solo campaign is being taken away. Refunds should be given.
Do not support GaaS games and ignore the GaaS aspects of games even if they are “free” on GPU.
Live service games need to die.
Don’t spend money on FTP games…
Force the industry to change
Scorn was worse imo.
Remedy should be ashamed how bad the campaign was . Also the multiplayer was godawful. So good riddance I say.
Just few days ago I said DO NOT buy redfall since it will be online only and when servers shutdown you won't be able play it anymore.
Well...here is another example of my sage advice. Just rent or game pass it.
@EliJapan Wow that's the first I heard about KO City, so thanks for that info. However, I think that's a different story since it was always just a competitive online game without a single player campaign. This is yet another warning about buying games as a service games. If Redfall wasn't going on GP, I wouldn't buy it because you have to be online to play singleplayer. I'd wager, in fact, they wouldn't try to get away with that garbage if it weren't for Gamepass, but that's a whole other discussion.
Surely they could release the single-player campaign separately. Once you select it from the menu it pretty much loads up as its own game anyway.
@Serpentes420 considering fo76 is the same always online thing and that predates being on game pass, be and grumblevolcano said Doom eternal is too, which predated Ms ownership/gp default as well, I think it was Bethesda's own plan before ms and gp we're involved. Who knows why.
@Kaloudz
I don't know, it seems plenty of "no man's sky comeback" stories are out there. Gamers clearly can be patient and let the game evolve.
I think the difference is all those NMS, 76, SoT, Division 1, Destiny 1, and so on showed some spark of what they could be. Crossfire didn't have that, it didn't play well, it didn't do anything special, and it didn't have a personality to make it stand out.
I am really disappointed to hear this as I did play it quite a lot and felt that it offered something different in the console shooter space.
It had improved greatly, from where it was at its dodgy launch, it just could not get past the reputation that it had gained, it was no way the worst game, not at all.
I also can't believe that the single player is going away too! I haven't finished the whole thing, and with my life being busy right now I don't think I will get to, so single player content that I paid for is going down the drain. I doubt I would support this developer again.
I feel that I should be refunded for the single player, they can keep the spend I made in multiplayer, I don't mind, but a single player campaign disappearing? That is just wrong, MS should step in here with refunds.
Disappointing that the game is shutting down not that long after launch but not surprising I guess given it's rocky launch. I would worry about other games in the future. At least with Back 4 Blood they are keeping the servers up, unlike this.
Should have kept this trash game in china
Why would you not patch it so the campaign can survive? What the hell!!!!
Hoping 343 follows suit & refunds us some battle pass money. Core gameplay is cool but the desync and lack of content is no good. All about selling cosmetics and not caring about the players.
@Blessed_Koz
Agreed.
It didn't know what it was supposed to be.
Picked several things and didn't do any of them very well.
@Robocrop_Duster Cause the owners of crossfire doesn’t care about the campaign. They just made it as way to get western players interested in the game so that they would play the multiplayer.
@Floki I know. It sucks. You'd think Remedy would have a say in saving their work.
@Robocrop_Duster I doubt remedy cares as well. This campaign is such a tarnish on their reputation that they would probably prefer for to disappear.
This is exactly why I refuse to buy any online-only game. Anything that is "live service" with single player tied into your online status is not something worth investing any real time or money into. At best it could be a decent GamePass title, that's it. In this case it wasn't even a good GamePass title.
Really is a travesty that you cannot access the single player anymore. Also, why not have bots and the game still available for those who at least bought it?
Like throwing away money. That's why I still always go physical as much as possible.
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