The story of CrossfireX is a sad one. At one point, it seemed like the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S exclusive shooter was going to be a major hit on the platform, but a poor launch saw the game crowned the worst Xbox release of 2022 (according to Metacritic), and that was followed up by an apparently rapid loss of players following its release.
Some impressive updates weren't enough to salvage CrossfireX, and it was announced back in February that the game's servers would be closing on May 18th, 2023. That's the very last time you'll ever be able to play CrossfireX on an Xbox console, as the servers are required even if you want to experience the single-player campaigns.
Worse still, you can't actually play CrossfireX on Xbox anymore unless you bought one of the paid campaigns for the game prior to early February of this year, as all of its content has since been delisted. If you did buy one of them, now is the time to try and acquire as many achievements as possible before they disappear forever.
It's a real shame that things turned out the way they did for CrossfireX, especially considering there was so much work that was put into a game that barely lasted a year and can no longer be enjoyed in any form. Hopefully lessons will have been learned from this one, especially when it comes to always-online single-player content.
What did you think of CrossfireX? Let us know down in the poll and comments below.
What Did You Think Of CrossfireX? (432 votes)
- I actually really liked it! Sad to see it go...
- It was pretty good, I had some fun with it
- It was OK, nothing to shout about
- It was pretty poor, but not THAT bad
- It was terrible, sorry!
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This game is another example why people shouldn't get on board anyone's hype train and why needing to be online for singleplayer content is BS.
No loss. One of the worst games i've ever played.
For reference it got a 38 on Metacritic.
@themightyant ever a man of taste I see mightyant
One of my top 3 worst games ever played.
@BrilliantBill Black Ops 3 campaign was worse than CrossfireX
@Cherip-the-Ripper What's the other 2 worst games you played?
@themightyant It was a real race to the bottom for Crossfire X and Babylon's Fall. Getting two games that terrible back to back had to just be a fluke. 😂
@Solidchief undecided I suppose. Nothing that comes to mind.
Could check my list real quick.
New SR is straight ass but don't think it's top 3, the efootball thing could fit there. Don't wanna call that a game.
Can put serious sam 4 in there as well, hated that game.
That's that, don't really wanna scroll through more haha but if you got sth else lemme know
@Cherip-the-Ripper Personally for me one of the worst games I've played was a Xbox 360 game called Shellshock 2. A good concept with zombies during the Vietnam War but the game itself was pure dogsh*t. Terrible AI, very glitchy and low framerate drops that made the game 10x harder than it should have been. Oh I almost forgot it had a lot of quick time events for some reason.
There's a little title in your clickbait, haha.
Not really interestes in this, to be honest.
Literally could not care, I think this was the game I tried to fire up when it was in Game Pass to play the single player campaign, and it point blank refused to run and crashed. Garbage.
“No loss” is not an intelligent or sensible response. People paid for this game and it’s being removed less than a year after release. This is outrageous.
The apathy from the gaming industry to stand up against rubbish like this is mind blowing.
I enjoyed the campaign somewhat, it was "alright" I guess.
I think the sad thing is that it's just GONE, at the very least make the campaign available to whomever may want to try it, the game has been made, it's finished, why just throw it in the bin???
So I tried starting a email campaign to get Remedy to patch this so their Single Player campaigns could be played offline after this shutdown. I even made a YouTube video calling on people to email the devs. Unfortunately not many people watched it. I get most didn't like these two campaigns but they're remedy campaigns and I as well as many others paid good money, not for the multiplayer but for the campaigns and now they're going to make them unplayable because of a stupid online check in. When it comes to a single player campaign that has you fighting against A.I. controlled bots, 9 times out of 10 its usually a line of code that needs to be changed in order to play offline.
Xbox exclusive woah this and redfall really have made Microsoft a laughing stock
Another trash exclusive brought to you by Microsoft.
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@Romans12 Since when is CrossfireX from Microsoft? And Redfall isnt from Microsoft either. It got developed before Microsoft had its Hands on Arkane.
Well... I guess Xbox store now "hits" the same problem as any studios on Steam : visibility !!
Too much games and it's pretty difficult to "exist" on the store...
Too much copy cats of roguelike, platforms games.... but when you try to be innovative.... players won't find you....
I tried it. It was meh, at best. It was a confused game at worst.
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