Ubisoft has spoiled Tom Clancy fans rotten as far as games go. Most of the Tom Clancy games that it has developed or published are good, if not genre-defining. So, you can't exactly fault fans for complaining about XDefiant after some brand new footage of Ubisoft's upcoming 6v6 free-to-play shooter popped up online.
What's wrong with XDefiant?
In a way, XDefiant is the shooter version of Super Smash Bros. It's a combination of all the previous Tom Clancy games, united in one single free-to-play title.
While the premise sounds very promising, it's not easy to pull off a crossover game and needs to do justice to every game that crossed over to it. This is much easier said than done. However, after its initial surprise announcement, fans had high hopes for XDefiant.
After revealing important details about XDefiant right from the bat, fans felt that Ubisoft was going to deliver. It also helped that Ubisoft could learn a thing or two from a failed project that had a fairly similar concept as XDefiant did in Elite Squad.