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With some fixes announced for the next week, it’s been an eventful couple of days for the XDefiant community. Now, for the third weekend in a row, XDefiant developers surprised their fans with several days of double XP. Most agree that’s a wonderful gesture. Unfortunately, some XDefiant players work weekends and suffer from a major double XP FOMO.
Double XP is Returning for the Weekend
XDefiant announced via X: “Double XP is back, but this time we’re bringing you double Weapon AND Battle Pass XP! Begin working through those tiers starting Friday at 10AM PT/1PM ET until Tuesday at 10AM PT/ 1PM ET”.
Most fans were overjoyed by the news. NWAnowadays exclaimed: “This makes me happy”. Another player, thepohcv, added: “I can’t say I don’t appreciate that the weekends are double XP”. Some players joked about regretting purchasing the boosters. UberNyuber said: “If I had known that Ubisoft was so generous with Double XP events in the pre-season, I would have saved up my boosters for the next battle pass/season”.
Unfortunately, some fans noticed that players who are busy over the weekend miss out a lot. Calelith asked: “Can we please see some that aren’t just weekends? About a 1/4 of the workforce works weekends, and I imagine a lot of younger people who are at uni/college work weekends”.
Washed Gamer asked the developers: “Considering this is happening every weekend why not just make it standard lol. Like why are you punishing people for playing during the week?”. While we don’t see this as a punishment for those who can’t play during weekends, it would be nice to see some type of compensation for them, as well.
This plea caused a small rift in the community. While many fans supported the idea of double XP being implemented not only during weekends, several players insisted that shouldn’t happen. A Redditor, mikeytlive, explained: “Majority people are off weekends. It’s super popular for every game just not XDefiant to see peak player count during weekends”. Another fan, mentalyblind, added: “That’s the point of double XP weekends, to build FOMO so more people play XDefiant over other games”.
Fans Agree on a Solution for FOMO
One helpful player, Cross2Live, came up with an interesting idea on how to please both sides. They said: “Not mad at the company or any players for double XP weekends. Just sucks that I can never take advantage of them due to my work schedule. The only compromise I could see is if they issued a token that expires after a week and when activated gives you the double XP starting then and ending after 72 real-world hours”.
This type of idea shows that a solution can be found for most things in life. Other players readily agreed. One fan, yaboi869, said: “Sorry to hear that man, and I really do like your solution. It seems extremely fair and like a good workaround”. HavocJC added: “Your solution is actually a great idea”.
We truly hope that XDefiant developers will implement an idea like this one and help the players get rid of their double XP FOMO. Until then, we’d like to remind all the weekend workers out there that they still have a chance to partake in this event since it lasts through Monday as well. It isn’t much, but it’s enough to get you some level-ups, at the very least. And, for the rest of you, who can put in more hours, enjoy your double XP weekend!